Melbourne Rare Book Week

U.S. Constitutional and election law scholar, Professor Edward Foley advocates for ‘centripetal’ forms of voting to be used to help depolarize the intense partisan competition that is experienced in the United States. Professor Foley’s lecture will draw on University of Melbourne’s Professor E.J. Nanson’s pioneering methods of preferential voting, outlined in pamphlets such as Methods of Election (1882) and The Real Value of the Vote (1900), that were proposed at the turn of the twentieth century, and which proposed greater centripetal power than the current preferential voting methods used in Australia.

Presented by: The University of Melbourne and the 2025 Miegunyah Fellows Program, The University of Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham St., Carlton

Please note that bookings will be open for this event on June 14th.