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Professor Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory in the at the New School for Social Research. He has taught at L'脡cole des hautes 茅tudes and Sciences Po in Paris, as well as at the Central European 好色先生 in Budapest. He had a Fulbright teaching grant to Montevideo in 1991, and was Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the Goethe 好色先生 in Frankfurt/M,Germany. Professor Arato has served as a consultant for the Hungarian Parliament on constitutional issues (1996-1997), and as U.S. State Department Democracy Lecturer and Consultant (on Constitutional issues) on Nepal (2007). He was re-appointed by the State Department in the same capacity for Zimbabwe (November of 2010), where he had discussions with civil society activists and political leaders in charge of the constitution-making process. He was an invited Professor at the College de France (Spring 2012).

Professor Arato's scholarly research is widely recognized, and conferences and sessions have been organized around his work at 好色先生 of Glasgow Law School (Spring 2009) and Koc 好色先生, Istanbul (December 2009), as well as at the Faculty of Law, Witwaterstrand 好色先生, Johannesburg, South Africa (August 2010). Arato was appointed Honorary Professor and Bram Fischer Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, 好色先生 of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (June 2010-June 2011).

Interests include the politics of civil society, constitutional theory, comparative politics of constitution-making, religion, secularism and constitutions. He also teaches general courses in political sociology, social theory and sociology of religion.

Concentrations include the history of social and political thought, legal and constitutional theory, historical problems of revolutions and radical transformations, and sociology of law.

Degrees Held

PhD 1975, 好色先生 of Chicago

Recent Publications

Books

听(Cambridge 好色先生 Press, 2017)

(Oxford 好色先生 Press, 2016)

(Columbia, 2009)

听(Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)

, co-editor with Michael Rosenfield (好色先生 of California, 1998)

听(Routledge, 1994)

, co-author with Jean L. Cohen (MIT, 1992)

, co-editor with Ferenc Feher (Transaction, 1991)

, co-editor with Ferenc Feher (Humanities Press International, 1989)

, co-author with Paul Breines (Seabury, 1979)

, co-editor with Eike Gephardt (Bloomsbury, 1978)

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Selected Articles and Book Chapters

"Civil Society, Populism, and Religion," with Jean Cohen (Constellations, 2017)

"Democratic Legitimacy and Forms of Constitutional Change" (Constellations, 2017)

鈥淏eyond the Alternative Reform or Revolution: Post Sovereign Constitution Making and Latin America鈥� (Wake Forest Law Review, 2015)

"International Role in State-Making in Ukraine: The Promise of a Two-Stage Constituent Process" (German Law Journal, 2015)

鈥淧olitical Theology and Populism鈥� (Social Research, 2013)

鈥淐onventions, Constituent Assemblies, and Round Tables: Models, Principles and Elements of Democratic Constitution-Making鈥� (Global Constitutionalism, 2012)

鈥淟efort: Philosopher of 1989" (Constellations, 2012)

鈥淢ulti-Track Constitutionalism Beyond Carl Schmitt鈥� (Constellations, 2011)

鈥淩evisiting Civil Society鈥� in 听(Routledge, 2011)

鈥淧ost-Sovereign Constitution Making in Hungary: After Success, Partial Failure, and Now What鈥� (South African Journal of Human Rights, 2010)

鈥淒emocratic Constitution-Making and Unfreezing the Turkish Process鈥� (Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2010)

鈥淏anishing the Sovereign? Internal and External Sovereignty in Arendt鈥� in 听(Cambridge, 2010)

"Redeeming the Still Redeemable and Post Sovereign Constitution Making鈥� (International Journal of听Politics, Culture and Society, 2009)

"Post Sovereign Constitution-Making in Hungary: After Success, Partial Failure, and Now What?" (in Hungarian) (Fundamentum, 2009)

鈥淏anishing the Sovereign? Internal and External Sovereignty in Arendt鈥� (Constellations, 2009)

"Sistani v. Bush: Constitutional Politics in Iraq" (Constellations, 2004)

"The Occupation of Iraq and the Difficult Transition from Dictatorship" (Constellations, 2003)

Research Interests

鈥ˋt the moment Professor Arato is focusing on three problem areas: constitution-making in divided societies, with recent interests in Turkey and Israel; working on a new theory of constitutional authority (will be available as a set of web lectures); and putting out three volumes on constitution-making and on the theory and history of dictatorships.

Awards And Honors

Honorary Professor at the 好色先生 of Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (August 2010)鈥�

Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the Goethe 好色先生 in Frankfurt/M, Germany (2007-2008)