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The Karsh Institute of Democracy

January 12, 2022

The Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia has announced its inaugural advisory board. The institute is nonpartisan, focusing on participation and civil debate on national issues, supporting discussion of the underpinnings of democracy, and engagement in public outreach.

The advisory board is led by Risa Goluboff of UVA Law. ALI members also on the advisory board are Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, John Calvin Jeffries Jr. of UVA Law, and Anthony M. Kennedy, formerly of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Learn more about the institute and advisory board here.

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