News Archive

PAL is heading to Puerto Rico

The Annual Meeting on Law and Society will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from June 1-4, 2023. The conference will be held at the...

VRÜ/World Comparative Law Publishes Special Issue With PAL Studies

Studies cover Brazil, India, South Africa, Hungary, and the U.S. March 2022 The German journal Verfassung und Recht in Übersee...

Hybrid Roundtable on Resistance to Authoritarianism

This panel discussion, hosted by the Global Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School, seeks to build on discussions...

Transnational Law Institute launches Global Project on Authoritarianism

Experts from around the world gathered at The Dickson Poon School of Law last week to launch a new project looking at the recent tendency...

Call for Abstracts

The Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL) is a multi-component scholarly initiative that looks at how political leaders use law to...

Sofia Rolim on Bolsonaro, public safety, and engaging with PAL as a Brazilian graduate student

In the last two episodes of this season, Fabio interviews two students who were engaged with PAL, and the themes we are exploring through...

Ryleigh Horst on democracy and law in the life of a US College Student

In the last two episodes of this season, Fabio interviews two students who were engaged with PAL, and the themes we are exploring through...

PAL braces for new phase after Lisbon

The Lisbon panels and workshop indicated much interest in studies of autocratic legalism in the global sociolegal community. PAL will...

Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable

At a moment when democracy seems to be experiencing an unprecedented level of crisis worldwide, this roundtable focuses on one country,...

PAL Heads to Lisbon

The PAL project is headed to a major presence in the Law & Society Global Meeting that is happening in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 13-16,...