1st Edition
Legal Resistance to Autocracy The Global Fight to Save Democracy
List of Contributors
Introduction
Natasha Lindstaedt, Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Oscar Vilhena Vieira, David M. Trubek, Fabio de Sa e Silva
Chapter 1: Law as Resilience and Law as Roadblocks: Protest Politics and Resistance in India
Mohsin Alam Bhat and Aparna Chandra
Chapter 2: It Can Happen Here—Resistance to Autocracy under Trump and Trumpism
Richard L. Abel
Chapter 3: ‘A Group of Law Professors-Turned-Political-Activists’: Legal Resistance to Regime Changes in Israel (2023)
Ronit Levine-Schnur
Chapter 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
Chapter 5: Defensive Democracy: The Role of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (2019–2023)
Oscar Vilhena Vieira
Chapter 6: Judicial Resistance to Autocracy: A South African Case Study
Nurina Ally and Heinz Klug
Chapter 7: Repertoires of Resistance
Heinz Klug
Chapter 8: Resisting Autocratization: The Case of Hungary
Gábor Halmai and Bojan Bugarič
Chapter 9: Personalization of Power and Sources of Resistance in Russia
Natasha Lindstaedt
Chapter 10: Defenders but not Resisters: The Role of Lawyers in Putin’s Russia
Kathryn Hendley
Chapter 11: Adaptive Dissent: Resistance Dynamics in the People’s Republic of China
Leigha C. Crout
Chapter 12: International Human Rights Institutions and Resistance to Autocratization: Mapping their Actions
Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz and Nina M. Hart
Chapter 13: Economic Sanctions, Autocratization and Human Security
Bojan Bugarič, Natasha Lindstaedt, and David M. Trubek
Chapter 14: Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion (GRAD): Lawyers in Resistance
Leigha C. Crout, David M. Trubek, and Sofia Bordin Rolim
Index
Biography
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.
