Future Events
The next GRAD Workshop will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the 22-23 September 2023.
The programme, list of presenters and topics is available here:
Paper Abstracts
Past Events
GRAD Consortium Launch Event at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
On the 10th and 11th November 2022, experts from around the world gathered at The Dickson Poon School of Law to launch the new GRAD Project.
Professor Octavio Ferraz, co-Director of the Transnational Law Institute (TLI), said: “It was great to welcome friends from the US, Brazil, Hungary, India, South Africa and China to the first event of GRAD. Resistance to autocratisation is not only an important topic but one which lawyers are particularly well placed to study.”
Fabio de Sa e Silva, Assistant Professor of International Studies & Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, said: “There is plenty of writing on autocratisation processes and democratic decline, but not enough on legal resistance to those processes, and that is why this project is unique.”
Professor Oscar Vilheha Vieira, Professor of Constitutional Law and Dean at FGV São Paulo Law School, agreed: “The growing number of people living in countries going through a process of autocratisation since 2011 is scary. There is no doubt we live in a democratic crisis.”