Lawyers and Democratic Decline (LADD), a collaborative research project directed by University of Wisconsin Law School’s Kathryn Hendley, is co-sponsoring a symposium, “Lawyers as Agents for Change in Countries Facing Distress.”

The symposium, hosted by the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, will take place Jan. 23-24, 2025, at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Organizers are:

• Hendley, the Roman Z. Livshits & Theodore W. Brazeau Professor of Law and Political Science
• Jayanth K. Krishnan, Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington
• Nashuba Hudson, Editor-in-Chief, and Julia Raczek, Submissions Editor, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

LADD brings together scholars studying the efforts of lawyers to resist authoritarianism in countries with backsliding democracies, including the United States, China, Russia, Brazil and Poland.

Those presenting their research alongside Hendley include:

• • Oscar Vilhena Vierira, Dean of Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, Brazil
  • Heba Khalil, Assistant Professor of Sociology/Criminology, Nebraska Wesleyan University
  • Leigha Crout, Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and 2022-24 Hastie Fellow at UW Law
  • Kaja Gadowska, Professor, Jagiellonian University, Poland
  • Ekaterina Khodzhaeva, Fellow, Institut d'études avancées de Nantes, France
  • Vitor Dias, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Butler University

Submitted by Law School News on January 9, 2025

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