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Many panels at the 2018 ICON-S Annual Conference concern the theme of democratic decay. The following are the key panels and presentations to watch out for.

PANEL #4

CONSTITUTIONALISM IN CONTEXT I

David Landau - Constitutional Backsliding: Colombia

Yaniv Roznai - Constitutional Transformation: Hungary

Mark Tushnet - Institutions Supporting Constitutional Democracy: South Africa

Cora Chan - Subnational constitutionalism: The case of Hong Kong

PANEL #9

INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Scott Stephenson - Against Interpretation as an Alternative to Invalidation

Michaela Hailbronner - Regional Human Rights Courts and Institutional Failure

David Kosař, Jiří Baroš, Pavel Dufek - Separation of Powers under Siege: What Went Wrong in Central Europe?

Rosalind Dixon - The core case for weak form judicial review

PANEL #12

DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING AND CONSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE - A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Wojciech Sadurski - Constitutional Capture and “Illiberal Democracy”: The Case of Poland

Gila Stopler - Democratic Backsliding in Israel

Tarun Khaitan - India’s Third Constitutional Retrogression

Tom Ginsburg - Near Misses: Avoiding Constitutional Retrogression

PANEL #32

POPULIST CHALLENGES TO LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONALISM I

Gábor Halmai - Is there such a thing as ‘populist constitutionalism’?

Paul Blokker - Populism and legal fundamentalism

Tom Ginsburg - Populism and losing constitutional democracy

Mark Tushnet - Populism and social welfare constitutionalism

Kim Scheppele - The party’s over

PANEL #62

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS? I

Michaela Hailbronner - Beyond Legitimacy: Europe's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy

Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq - Defining and Tracking the Trajectory of Liberal Constitutional Democracy

Ran Hirschl, Ayelet Shachar - Religious Talk’ in Narratives of Membership

Yaniv Roznai - Constitutional Democracy in Israel

PANEL #64

POPULIST CHALLENGES TO LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONALISM II

Aeyal Gross - Constitutional populism and democracy – the case of Israel

Tomasz Koncewicz - Poland v EU. Understanding what’s happened, rediscovering European "first principles” and thinking counter – strategies

Bojan Bugaric - Populism and Liberal Democracy in East Central Europe

Tom Daly - Populisms, Elitism and the Threat to Liberal Constitutional Democracy in Brazil

Wojciech Sadurski - Populist Challenges to Liberal Constitutionalism: A Case of Poland

Rui Tavares - The European Promise: EU integration as a post-conflict constitutionalisation of fundamental rights — and why it matters today

PANEL #65

THE AUTHORITARIAN PUSHBACK AND THE RESILIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS - PART 2

François Finck - Authoritarian/nationalist pushback as a bottom-up challenge to regional integration organizations: an analysis of the EU and Mercosur

Matthias Goldmann - The Contribution of the International Economic Constitution to Authoritarian Liberalism

PANEL #78

30 YEARS OF THE BRAZILIAN CONSTITUTION: THE NEED TO TAKE STOCK

Estefânia Queiroz Barboza - 30 years after: is democracy in Brazil stable?

PANEL #81

[GLOBCON] THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM

Akiko Ejima - A role of “constitutionalism” in the recent constitutional debates on Article 9 (the “pacifism” clause) in Japan

Hajime Yamamoto - Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Japan?

Kriszta Kovács - The future of constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland

PANEL #84

THE TWILIGHT OF JAPAN'S POSTWAR CONSTITUTION

Craig Martin - The Trojan Horse of Abe's Constitutional Amendment Proposal

PANEL #85

BEYOND LEGAL BORDERS: IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY

Miles Maftean - The Paradox of Democracy’s Un-Democratic Defense: Civil Disobedience and State of Emergency

PANEL #88

EMERGENCY, LEGALITY AND RESISTANCE IN ASIA

Surabhi Chopra - Impunity and public law in India: Lessons for challenging constitutional retrogression in liberal democracies

PANEL #90

CHALLENGES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS

Eoin Carolan - The populist challenge to the separation of powers

PANEL #92

REGULATING ONLINE THREATS TO DEMOCRACY

Kate Klonick - Facebook v. Sullivan

Chinmayi Arun - Rebalancing Regulation of Speech: Hyper-Local Content on Global Web-Based Platforms

Nate Persily - The Implications of Platform Speech Regulation of Disinformation

PANEL #95

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS? II

David Landau - Constitution-Making and Authoritarianism in Venezuela: The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farce

Sam Issacharoff - Populism versus Democratic Governance

Kim Lane Scheppele - The Decline of Political Parties and Constitutional Democracy

Sujit Choudhry - Will Democracy Die in Darkness? Calling Autocracy by its Name

PANEL #115

POPULISM, AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE REGRESSION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

Wim Muller - China As A Champion of An Illiberal Rule of Law

Karolina Podstawa - Rupture or Continuity? On Reception of Rule of Law Standards in Poland 25 Years After the “Democratic” Transition

Aydin Atilgan - The Anatomy Of The Dual State in Turkey

Wiebke Greeff - The Positioning of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Egypt on the International Rule of Law Scale

Maria Smirnova - The Role of Law in National Identity Building in Putin’s Russia

PANEL #122

PUBLIC LAW AND AUTOCRACY

Alvin Cheung - “For My Enemies, The Law”: Abusive Legalism

Robert Grzeszczak - “Systemic democratic backsliding”: reflections on recent experience in the European Union

Uday Shankar - Criminalisation of Politics: Threat to Democratic Fabric of a Country– A study of India

Raul Sanchez Urribarri - High Courts and Autocratic Consolidation: The Venezuelan Supreme Court under Nicolás Maduro’s Rule

Muzhen Sun, Guo senyu - The Analysis on the Innate Popular Tendency of Democracy

PANEL #152

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS III

Gábor Halmai - A Coup Against Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Hungary

Roberto Niembro, Ana Micaela Alterio - Constitutional Culture and Democracy in Mexico: A Critical View of the 100-Year-Old Mexican Constitution

David Law, Chien-Chih Lin - Constitutional Inertia and Regime Pluralism in Asia

Michael Pal - The Democratic Resilience of the Canadian Constitution

PANEL #169

CHALLENGES IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

Alica Mohnert - Gremlins in the Electronic Voting Machine: For a Right to Vote Analogously

Pierre Notermans - The concept of democracy in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

Hendrik Lubbe - The lack of political will to institute post-TRC prosecutions in South Africa: A threat to democracy and challenge for public law?

PANEL #176

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Richard Albert - Alternatives to the Invalidation of Constitutional Amendments

Mark Tushnet - Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments and Constitutional Replacements