Event Recap: How (Authoritarian) Populism Works

Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor in Jurisprudence. He also holds a position of Professor in the Centre for Europe in the University of Warsaw, and was visiting professor at Yale Law School, NYU Law School, Rutgers University department of Politics, Fordham Law School, Cardozo Law School and Saint Louis University School of Law (all in the United States) as well as in University of Parma Faculty of Law and University of Trento Faculty of Law (both in Italy), and in National University of Singapore School of Law. He was Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law in the Department of Law, European University Institute in Florence (1999-2009), and served as Head of Department of Law at the EUI in 2003-2006. As a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (elected in 1990), Wojciech Sadurski is member of a number of supervisory or program boards, including the Institute of Public Affairs (Poland), Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights (Poland), and also of editorial/advisory boards, including the European Law Open, International Journal of Constitutional Law and Law and Philosophy Library (Springer Scientific). Series editor of Legal Theory Series at Edward Elgar Publishers. In 2013, he initiated and has been leading the Myanmar Constitutional Reform Project. Member of the governing bodies of International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL); since 2021, member of the Global Rule of Law Commission at European Public Law Organization (EPLO).

 

Hubert Tworzecki (BA/MA University of British Columbia, PhD University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His research interests include political parties, elections, and voting in new democracies, as well as political communication and its effects. He is the author of Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland (Westview Press,1996) and Learning to Choose: Electoral Politics in East-Central Europe (Stanford University Press, 2002). Teaching interests include comparative politics, Eastern European politics, political behavior and survey research methods.