RevDem Podcast

In this conversation with Assistant Editor Gaurav Mukherjee, Melissa Crouch discusses the rapidly evolving situation involving the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021. Prof. Crouch is Professor and Associate Dean Research at the Law School, University of New South Wales, Syndey. While Prof. Crouch’s research contributes to the fields of comparative constitutional law; law and society; and law and religion, she is the author of the definitive book on the 2008 constitution of Myanmar, titled “The Constitution of Myanmar: A contextual analysis” (2019), which was shortlisted for the Australian Legal Research Awards inaugural book award. Link to “The Constitution of Myanmar: A Contextual Analysis”: https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/the-constitution-of-myanmar-9781509927371/ Link to Prof. Crouch’s writings on the military coup on her personal website: https://melissacrouch.com/ Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.

Professor Nandini Ramanujam (McGill University) discusses with Oliver Garner the connection between academic freedom and the Rule of Law,  contemporary and historical challenges, and prospects for the future. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Foundations

Kasia Krzyżanowska interviews Michael Zeller (Central European University) on the far-right demonstration campaigns and how are demobilized by the counter-activists. We talk also about the last year BLM mobilization, and why demonstrations are still better than the social media campaigns.

Oliver Garner interviews Professor Dimitry Kochenov (University of Groningen) on Member State legal action against backsliding Member States to enforce the Rule of Law in the EU. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Foundations

Oliver Garner interviews Professor Petra Bard (CEU and Eötvös Loránd University) on the new regime of budget conditionality to enforce the Rule of Law in the European Union. Supported [in part] by a grant from the Open Society Foundations

Kasia Krzyzanowska interviews Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, a faculty member in History Department at Dartmouth College, on the future of liberalism, especially post-Cold War liberalism as envisioned by American intellectuals.

Samuel Moyn (Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University) in conversation with Kasia Nowicka on the current state of America's democracy on the eve of Joe Biden's presidency.

Michal Matlak interviews Professor Alberto Alemanno (HEC, Paris) and the founder of Good Lobby about the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe.