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...
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May 10, 20231 min read
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...
Mar 24, 20231 min read
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...
Mar 24, 20231 min read
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...
Nov 17, 20222 min read
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...
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Call for Abstracts
The Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL) is a multi-component scholarly initiative that looks at how political leaders use law to...
Nov 2, 20221 min read
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...
Nov 1, 20221 min read
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...
Jul 24, 20222 min read
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...
Jul 7, 20221 min read
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,...
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