“Bars and Digits: Liberal Democracy in the Digital Age of Security”

Bernard Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Chicago and, during 2013-2014, the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University. Professor Harcourt's scholarship intersects social and political theory, the sociology of punishment, political economy, and penal law and procedure. He is the author of the book, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard University Press 2011) and the editor of Michel Foucault's 1973 courses at the Collège de France, La Société punitive (Gallimard, forthcoming).