Pitt Law presents their annual Constitution Day event, featuring this year's speaker Bertrall Ross, Professor of Law and Director, for the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the University of Virginia School of Law. The event is moderated by Vice Dean Jerry Dickinson and Professor Jessie Allen

There are extraordinary challenges to democratic citizens’ acquisition and processingof the information necessary to secure a responsive and accountable government. It was a problem that the many skeptical U.S. Constitutional Convention delegatescited in their opposition to democracy, and it is a problem of increasing concern associety and governance have grown more complex and elected officials lessresponsive and accountable. Dialogue and discourse between citizens can be vital formitigating democracy’s information problem, but it requires providing citizens withthe means to discriminate between information and misinformation.

Learn more about Professor Ross here.