Chairs:

• Andrea Castagnola: andreacastagnola@yahoo.com
• David Kosař: kosmen@yahoo.com
• Julio Ríos Figueroa: julio.rios@itam.mx
• Nino Tsereteli: n.tsereteli@democracy-reporting.org

SPEAKERS

Alejandra	Dorantes Olvera
Gyory	Csaba
Jeronimo	Lau Alberdi
Raphael	Girard

This workshop invites submissions that analyse the role that judges, courts, and other actors of the ‘legal complex’ play in democratic resilience, particularly in resisting attempts by democratically elected leaders to subvert democracy. We seek papers that address how laws and legal cultures regarding judicial autonomy and tenure influence the capacity and willingness of these actors to resist attacks and safeguard democracy. We invite papers from different regions and perspectives that focus on how one—or several—actor(s) within the constellation of the legal complex (such as judges’ associations, prosecutors, bar associations, judicial councils, courts of different types and levels, law schools, and law students) organise to resist attacks on the integrity and independence of the judicial system, as well as other aspects of the processes of democratic erosion.

Collectively, our expertise spans the Latin American and European regions (with a focus on countries such as Hungary, Poland, Georgia, Czechia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina), but we invite papers from countries in other regions that are undergoing similar processes. The workshop also considers the interaction of judges and courts with supranational bodies, the impact of international judicial networks, and soft law norms, in order to understand how the law can serve as a tool for democratic preservation, adaptation, and transformation in the face of institutional erosion.n de l’indépendance judiciaire après une période de déclin démocratique.