This blog symposium and our VRÜ/WLC special issue featured country studies that examined the relationship between law and democratic backsliding in Brazil, India, and South Africa (BISA), linked to comparative efforts considering Hungary and the US…
Read MoreAll constitutional democracies have preexisting conditions that make them especially susceptible to anti-democratic diseases. Unicameral parliamentary systems – like Hungary and Israel – are especially vulnerable to attacks on their judiciaries which bear most of the weight…
Read MoreA week after Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2022 election (while Democrats increased their Senate majority), Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. At the moment…
Read MoreIn her recent contribution to a special issue on autocratic legalism in Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ)/World Comparative Law, Kim Scheppele has written reflectively on her earlier seminal contributions to the debate about the turn against constitutional democracy. She posits…
Read MoreDuring his inauguration on 1 January 2023, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared that “democracy was the greatest winner” of the presidential elections that ousted Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro was a threat to the rule of law and to democracy, even if his playbook varied…
Read More2019 should have been a great year for Brazilian academics. Their lives had not yet been disrupted by the pandemic, the exchange rate between the Brazilian real and the US dollar was reasonable, and there were still public funding sources for research—all of which…
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