Legal Resistance to Autocracy
The Global Fight to Save Democracy
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2025
Book
Hardback
402 pages
978-1-041-06658-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. Moreover, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to prevent attempted coups, like in Brazil and the United States, at least in disturbing the path of autocratizers and leaving doors open for future reversal, as in India, Israel and South Africa. This 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, South Africa, and the United States, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political economy of autocratization, and the role of lawyers from a 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
6 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 4 s/w Tabellen
4 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
781 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-06658-3 (9781041066583)
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Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz | Natasha Lindstaedt | David M. Trubek
Legal Resistance to Autocracy
The Global Fight to Save Democracy
E-Book
11/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
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Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz | Natasha Lindstaedt | David M. Trubek
Legal Resistance to Autocracy
The Global Fight to Save Democracy
E-Book
11/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Octavio 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 Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Oscar Vilhena Vieira is a founding professor and director of the Sao Paulo Law School of Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV Sao Paulo Law School), Brazil.
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Oscar Vilhena Vieira is a founding professor and director of the Sao Paulo Law School of Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV Sao Paulo Law School), Brazil.
Content
Introduction, Natasha Lindstaedt, Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Oscar Vilhena Vieira, David M Trubek, Fabio de Sa 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, Debora 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, Gabor Halmai and Bojan Bugaric; 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, Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz and Nina M Hart; 13. Economic Sanctions, Autocratization and Human Security, Bojan Bugaric, 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.