News Archive

May 31, 20241 min read

Dee Smythe, Michelle LeRoux, and Dennis Davis on "state capture" and South African democracy

Today, Fabio talks to Dee Smythe (UCT honorary), Michelle Leroux (UCT and Wits), and Dennis Davis (UCT Emeritus). Fabio and his guests...

May 31, 20242 min read

PAL Heads to Denver for the 2024 LSA Annual Meeting

The LSA Annual Meeting will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA, from June 6-9, 2024. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency...

May 31, 20241 min read

Three Students on Democratic Legalism in the US

Today, Fabio talks to Konrad Sartorius, Caleb Wisinger, and David Taitano – three students in the Masters of International Affairs...

Jan 5, 20241 min read

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...

Jan 4, 20242 min read

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...

Jan 4, 20241 min read

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

Jan 3, 20242 min read

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....

Jan 3, 20241 min read

Scheppele's 2019 address is published by Law & Society Review

Most publications originating from the PAL project start with a reference to the presidential address given by Kim Lane Scheppele at the...

Sep 18, 20231 min read

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...

Sep 4, 20231 min read

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,...