• Hilla Dayan

    Hilla is a Dutch-Israeli political sociologist and Lecturer in Social Sciences at Amsterdam University College (AUC) and affiliated with research centers at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her MA degree at the University of Chicago and completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, focusing her doctoral…

  • Ertuğ Tombuş

    Ertuğ is a Turkish political scientist and Senior Research Associate at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften). He serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD), specializing in democratic theory, constitutionalism, comparative populism, and the sociology of law. He holds two Ph.D. degrees, in Political Science and Sociology,…

  • Gülçin Balamir Coşkun

    Gülçin is a Turkish political scientist and Senior Research Associate at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften). She balances her institutional research with her role as the Academic Coordinator at the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Galatasaray University, a Master’s degree from…

  • Mert Arslanalp

    Mert is a Turkish political scientist and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, where he also serves as the Head of the Department of Legal Sciences. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boğaziçi University and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University. His research combines…

  • Mohsin Bhat

    Mohsin is a legal scholar and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Law at Queen Mary University of London, specializing in constitutional law, human rights, and the law of democracy. He previously served as an Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law at Jindal Global Law School in India. He earned…

  • Leigha Crout

    Leigha is an American legal scholar specializing in constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, human rights, and transnational legal networks. She serves as an Assistant Professor of Law at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, while maintaining a role as a nonresident fellow at Stanford Law School’s Neukom Center for the Rule of Law. She…

  • Kim Lane Scheppele

    Kim is an American socio-legal scholar globally recognized for coining the concepts of “autocratic legalism” and the “Frankenstate”. She serves as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at the Princeton University Department of Sociology, with joint appointments in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for…

  • Raul Sanchez Urribarri

    Raul is a comparative law and politics scholar specializing in judicial politics, constitutionalism, and the rule of law under democratic erosion and hybrid authoritarianism. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Neukom Center for the Rule of Law and an incoming Professor of Law at Western Sydney University. He holds a Bachelor…

  • Murilo Gaspardo

    Murilo Gaspardo is a Brazilian legal scholar and Associate Professor of State Theory and Political Science at the Department of Public Law within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FCHS) at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Franca campus. He completed his undergraduate law degree, Master’s, and Ph.D. in State Law at the University of…

  • Javier Corrales

    Javier is the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, where he specializes in comparative politics, democratic backsliding, and Latin American governance. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and completed his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University in 1996. His research investigates the institutional…