Lai (2025), Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong
This book examines the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law amid growing authoritarian control by China.
This book examines the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law amid growing authoritarian control by China.
In backsliding democracies, this research shows that lawyers remain key actors in the struggle for political change.
This article explores how cause lawyers operate in authoritarian or conflicted settings where legal outcomes are often predetermined and victories are rare.
This article reviews two recent books that examine the evolving role of law and legal activism under authoritarian rule in China and Hong Kong.
This article explores how access to justice can be expanded in an authoritarian setting like Russia through the use of citizen legal advocates (CLAs)—ordinary citizens without formal legal education who represent defendants in criminal and administrative cases.
This article examines how defense lawyers in contemporary Russia strategically use publicity in trials involving protesters, despite the broader context of a politicized and often predetermined legal system.
This article highlights the crucial role lawyers played in resisting authoritarian-leaning actions during a period of democratic backsliding in the United States, specifically under the Trump administration.
This article examines the role of lawyers in resisting democratic backsliding and authoritarian policymaking in the United States, particularly during the Trump administration.
This book provides a powerful analysis of the role of human rights lawyers operating within an authoritarian legal regime, focusing on China.
This article explores the underexamined role of lawyers operating within manifestly unjust procedural regimes, particularly in the context of liberal democracies under internal stress.