The Wider Field
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Initiatives
PAL highlights independent projects addressing complementary questions on constitutional change, democratic resilience, and the rule of law.
Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion – GRAD
University Consortium · The UK, Brazil, and the United States
A transatlantic university consortium examining how authoritarian ideas and practices travel—and how democratic actors resist their diffusion.
Lawyers and Democratic Decline – LADD
University of Wisconsin Law School · United States
A research initiative studying lawyers’ roles in democratic decline and the professional institutions that can enable or constrain anti-democratic legal work.
The Right Against Rights
University of Oxford · The UK
An Oxford-based project examining how actors mobilize the language of rights to challenge, restrict, or reverse established rights protections.