WEBINAR RECORDINGS
This section provides access to the recording of each webinar. The first webinar recordings have been uploaded and more will be added shortly. Note: We have become aware of an audio problem with Prof. George Katrougalos’ presentation in Webinar 2. We are working to fix this.
Webinar 1 provided an overview of key challenges facing constitutionalism and democracy worldwide, including attacks on academic freedom, technological threats, voter suppression, China’s declining culture of constitutionalism, and abusive judicial review.
Chair: Associate Professor Tom Daly
Webinar 3 focused on the challenges facing constitutional democracy and constitution-building, and sources of resilience, in Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, and Canada.
Chair: Dr Raul Sánchez-Urribarri
Webinar 5 focused on the diverse constitutional pathways of a range of understudied states across Asia: Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, as well as comparative discussion of how courts’ approaches to religious clauses have empowered governments to adopt communally divisive policies, and of local democracy in Turkey.
Chair: Associate Professor Jaclyn Neo
Webinar 7 focused on the health of constitutional democracy in India and Sri Lanka through a variety of lenses, including judicial populism, party dominance, rights protection, partisan constitution-making processes, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chair: Menaka Guruswamy
The final webinar examined sources of resilience and renewal in democratic societies, from ‘toolkits’ to deal with authoritarian advances, to citizen-led processes of democratic revival, to international intervention. Strong emphasis was placed on the Global South as well as the Global North.
Chair: Professor Cheryl Saunders
Webinar 2 provided further analysis of the crisis of liberal democracy , including discussion of the diverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on existing populist trends, and in accelerating existing global trends such as algorithmic governance.
Chair: Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Webinar 4 switched the focus to the Middle East and Africa, beginning with an overview of democracy in the Arab world, followed by case-studies focused on courts and corruption.
Chair: Professor Selin Esen
Webinar 6 included a selection of case-studies of democratisation, constitutional change and constitutional decay in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Malta, Latvia and Lithuania, and comparison of judicial and electoral politics in states Slovakia, North Macedonia, and the UK.
Chair: Dr Erika Arban
