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Tomás Daly

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Tomás Daly is a Professor at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Democratic Decay & Renewal (DEM-DEC) platform at www.democratic-decay.org. His new project on ‘constitutional repair’ addresses a pressing question: how can a democracy be repaired after being deeply degraded, but not ended, during a period of anti-democratic government?

Key Highlights

• Introduction - 0:20
• What is Constitutional Repair? - 3:48
• Poland and its Constitutional Damage - 7:36
• Constitutional Repair in Poland - 20:06
• Avoiding Democratic Backsliding - 40:12

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Constitutional Repair: A Comparative Theory by Tomás Daly

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