Can Constitutional Design Save Democracy?

Tom Ginsburg discusses democratic erosion, constitutional design, and why no democracy is immune to authoritarian threats.

Today, Fabio talks to Tom Ginsburg, a professor of international law and political science at the University of Chicago and the author of “How to save a Constitutional democracy” (with Aziz Huq) and the brand-new “Democracies and International Law”.

Fabio and Tom discuss how modern autocrats use law to consolidate power, how the US has proven vulnerable to democratic erosion through law, and whether improvements in legal design (domestically or internationally) may help slow or stop these processes.

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