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Legal Resistance to Autocracy: The Global Fight to Save Democracy

Legal Resistance to Autocracy: The Global Fight to Save Democracy

Author: Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz; Natasha Lindstaedt; David Trubek; Oscar Vilhena Vieira
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781041066583
Published In: November 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does not march on unopposed. Moreoever, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to prevent attempted coups, like in Brazil and the US, at least disturbing the path of autocratizers and leaving doors open for future reversal, as in India, Israel and South Africa. The collection offers a contribution to this important yet neglected field from scholars of eight countries in different stages of autocratization: Brazil, India, China, Russia, Israel, Hungary and South Africa, 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. The authors include senior and rising scholars not only with academic interest and experience of the topic but also deep knowledge and intense involvement in the autocratization processes, and resistance, in their own countries.

The volume will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of Law, Political Science and International Relations.

Introduction

Natasha Lindstaedt, Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Oscar Vilhena Vieira, David M Trubek, Fábio de Sá e Silva

Chapter 1: Law as Resilience and Law as Roadblocks: Protest Politics and Resistance in India

Moshin 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 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