News Archive

Raquel Pimenta on Brazilian PAL Studies, Bolsonaro, and Zones of Authoritarianism

In this new PALcast episode, Fabio talks to Raquel Pimenta. Raquel is a law professor at the FGV Law School in São Paulo, which has been...

Deepa Das Acevedo, Mohsin A. Bhat, and Mayur Suresh on India, the Modi moment, and autocratic legalism

In this latest PALcast episode, Fabio talks to Deepa Das Acevedo (Emory University Law School), Mohsin A. Bhat (Queen Mary University of...

New PAL Book Illuminates Bolsonaro's Assault on Brazil's rule of Law.

The book maps the methods and strategies employed by the Bolsonaro government to corrode the rule of law in Brazil

PAL's Rick Abel to Launch Series of Books on Trump and Trumpism

Rick Abel, an emeritus law professor at UCLA and PAL collaborator, is launching a series of books on resistance to Trump and Trumpism....

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...

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...

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,...

PAL Researcher Reviews the Literature on Law and Illiberalism

This article has been published in advance by the Annual Review of Law and Social Science Fabio de Sa e Silva October 2022 In democratic...