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The collection offers a contribution to resistance to autocratization from scholars of eight countries in different stages of autocratization, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political economy of autocratization and the role of lawyers in comparative perspective.
Sommario
Introduction, Natasha Lindstaedt, Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Oscar Vilhena Vieira, David M Trubek, Fábio de Sá e Silva; 1. Law as Resilience and Law as Roadblocks: Protest Politics and Resistance in India, Moshin Alam Bhat and Aparna Chandra; 2. It Can Happen Here-Resistance to Autocracy under Trump and Trumpism, Richard L Abel; 3. 'A Group of Professors-Turned-Political-Activists': Legal Resistance to Regime Changes in Israel 2023, Ronit Levine-Schnur; 4. Lawyers, Bankers and Picketers: Pro-democracy Coalition-building in Brazil, Raquel de Mattos Pimenta, Débora Alves Maciel, Sofia Bordin Rolim, and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado; 5. Defensive Democracy: The Role of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (2019-2023), Oscar Vilhena Vieira; 6. Judicial Resistance to Autocracy: South African Case Study, Nurina Ally, Heinz Klug, and Nomfundo Ramalekana; 7. Repertoires of Resistance, Heinz Klug; 8. Resisting Autocratization: The Case of Hungary, Gábor Halmai and Bojan Bugari¿; 9. Personalization of Power and Sources of Resistance in Russia, Natasha Lindstaedt; 10. Defenders but not Resisters: The Role of Lawyers in Putin's Russia, Kathryn Hendley; 11. Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion: The People's Republic of China, Leigha C Crout; 12. International Human Rights Institutions and Resistance to Autocratization: Mapping their Actions, Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz and Nina M Hart; 13. Economic Sanctions, Autocratization and Human Security, Bojan Bugari¿, Natasha Lindstaedt, and David M Trubek; 14. Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion: Lawyers in Resistance, Leigha C Crout, David M Trubek, and Sofia Bordin Rolim.
Info autore
Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz is a Professor of Law, King's College of London, UK.
Natasha Lindstaedt is a Professor of Government, University of Essex, UK.
David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Senior Global Fellow at FGV Direito SP, the FGV Law School in São Paulo, Brazil.
Oscar Vilhena Vieira is a founding professor and director of the São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV São Paulo Law School), Brazil.
