News Archive

PAL Studies Featured on IACL Blog Symposium

PAL studies recently published in VRÜ/World Comparative Law were featured on a symposium of the blog maintained by the International...

Wisconsin Law hosts Workshop on Resistance to Authoritarianism

Scholars studying resistance to authoritarianism within and across countries as diverse as the Brazil, India, South Africa, the US,...

Law & Social Inquiry features PAL review essay

The latest issue of Law & Social Inquiry features a review essay written by Fabio de Sa e Silva, which outlines many lessons produced in...

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...