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News Archive
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....
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...
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...
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,...
May 12, 20221 min read
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,...
May 12, 20221 min read
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...
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