Aims to promote the comparative study of judicial processes. This entails analyses of the various components of these processes: the legal profession, the judiciary, courts (as institutions), legal doctrines, legal cultures; and how these components relate to other political institutions and political systems such as executives, legislatures, political parties, constitutions, federalism, political culture.
- Authoritarianism by law: abuse of legal provisions and ruling by the law in comparative perspective
Chair: Dr. Ashley Moran - Constitutional Adjudication, Politics, and the Future
Chair: Dr. Max Steuer - Constitutional Jurisdiction and Democracy: Courts, Democratic Resilience, and the Future of Constitutionalism
Chair: Prof. Tainah Sales - Executive Overreach and Judicial Responses: The Erosion of Oversight in Global Migration Governance
Chair: Dr. Alice Lacchei - Lessons Learned in Countering Judicial Backlash and Backsliding
Chair: Dr. Ashley Moran - New understandings of the relationship between courts and society
Chair: Prof. Daniela Piana - Strategic Avoidance and Positive Legislation: Constitutional Courts as Collective Actors in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Prof. Francesco Zucchini






