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Comparative Law and/in the Global South

Comparative Law and/in the Global South I have explored mainly in three thematic complexes: Comparative Methodology of/from the Global South, which combines a long-standing interest in comparative methodology with a continuing engagement with the Global South (both in general and in its particular Latin American/Brazilian variant); Constitutionalism and Crisis in the context of which I have worked on the impact of right-populist and authoritarian politics on constitutional governance, on the (human rights) impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the response to it, and on the intersection of both of these (especially in relation to Bolsonaro’s Brazil); and the (Legal) Politics of Anti-Corruption in which I have explored the impact of anti corruption lawfare on democratic politics both in Brazil and in India. In all these (sub thematic) areas, I have, in particular worked in the context of two projects, the German Brazilian Varieties of Constitutionalism (VACON) project led my Michael Riegner (University of Erfurt) and Conrado Hübner Mendes (University of São Paulo), as well as the German Indian M.S. Merian Center on Metamorphoses of the Politcal (ICAS:MP) (New Delhi/India).

Here is a list of (some) current engagements and/or projects, as well as  recent publications associated with the theme and its sub-themes:

(i) Comparative Methodology of/from the Global South

(ii) Constitutionalism and Crisis

(iii) The (Legal) Politics of Anti-Corruption