PALcast

PALcast

By Fabio de Sa e SilvaScienceSocial Sciences
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PALcast episodes

  • #2 – Oscar Vilhena on Brazil, Bolsonaro, and the PAL project
    Today, Fabio talks to Oscar Vilhena, a lawyer and political scientist who is the Dean of the FGV Law School in São Paulo, Brazil, which is the main basis for the Brazilian part of the PAL project. This conversation was intended to give readers a hint of what putting PAL research together has been like, but it was inevitable for Fabio and Oscar to engage in a deeper conversation about Brazil and Bolsonaro, at a time when COVID-19 hits their country very hard.
    41 min
  • #1 – Javier Corrales on Chavez, Trump, and the concept of autocratic legalism

    Today, Fabio talks to Javier Corrales, a political science professor at Amherst College. Corrales coined the term autocratic legalism to account for Venezuela's authoritarian turn in the late 20th century. In the episode, Fabio and Corrales unpack this concept and discuss other issues, including the 2020 US elections and how the United States can deal with the autocratic legacy from the Trump presidency.


    28 min
  • Season 1 trailer: What we are here for
    PALcast host, Fabio de Sa e Silva, introduces the podcast to listeners and explains what he and his guests will be addressing during our first season. For more information on the PAL project, go to www.autocratic-legalism.net
    3 min

About PALcast

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This is a podcast of the Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL). PAL seeks to understand how law can be used to further, as well as to resist autocratic forces that have been on the rise around the…