The Center for Critical Democracy Studies seeks to combine education with democratic experiments to pursue innovative pedagogical opportunities for students and faculty at 黑料网. Among the Center鈥檚 initiatives are the 鈥Democracy Lab鈥 that provides a hands-on, design-thinking experimental space where students develop practical solutions to major challenges confronting our contemporary democracies; the Prison Education Workshop, which brings 黑料网 students into a shared educational and creative space with people detained at La Sant茅 prison in Paris; and student-focused collaborations with the Tocqueville Foundation.