MCLR+ Resources: Lawfare

Frameworks & Contexts

• Jaume Castan Pinos & Mark Friis Hau, Lawfare: New Trajectories in Law (2023) (excerpt)
• Siri Gloppen, Conceptualizing Lawfare: A Typology & Theoretical Framework, Center of Law and Social Transformation Paper, Bergen (2018)
• José Luis Martí, Lawfare and Democracy, IDEES (2020)
• Valeria Vegh Weis, What Does Lawfare Mean in Latin America?, 25 Punishment & Society 909 (2023)
• Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Memoirs of the Plague: Lawfare, 32 Law and Critique 139 (2021)
• Lawfare (https://www.lawfaremedia.org/)

Latin America

• Abortion Lawfare in Latin America (Special Issue), 17(3) Revista Direito GV (2021)
  • Siri Gloppen, Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Law and the Epistemologies of the South ch. 8 (“Lawfare: A Long History”) (2023)
• Raul Zaffaroni, Cristina Caamaño & Valeria Vegh Weis, Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South (2023) (excerpt)
• Brazil
  • Stephanie Dennison, “Kafka and Lawfare in Brazil: Maria Ramos’s The Trial,” in Living (Il)legalities in Brazil: Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge (Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue & Georg Wink eds., 2020)
  • Cristiano Martins, Valeska Martins & Rafael Valim, Lawfare: Waging War through Law (2022)
  • Lawfare Unmasked in Brazil – NACLA (Alexandre Fortes, July 1, 2019)
• Trinidad & Tobago
  • Keith E. McNeal, Lawfare and the Global Dialectics of Homophobia and Homonationalism in Trinidad and Tobago, 27 Sexuality & Culture 2105 (2023)

Africa

• Siri Gloppen,Thalia Gerzso & Nicolas van de Walle, “Legal Strategies: Constitutional, Administrative, Judicial, and Discursive Lawfare,” in Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention 58 (Leonardo R. Arriola, Lise Rakner & Nicolas van de Walle eds., 2022)
• Queer Lawfare in Africa: Legal Strategies in Contexts of LGBTIQ+ Criminalisation and Politicisation (Adrian Jjuuko, Siri Gloppen, Alan Msosa & Frans Viljoen eds., 2022)
• South Africa
  • Kate Jean Dent, Lawfare and Judicial Legitimacy: The Judicialisation of Politics in the Case of South Africa (2024)

Asia

• India
  • Gautam Bhatia, A disturbing example of the normalisation of lawfare, The Hindu, Mar. 29, 2023
  • Saraphin Dhanani, India’s Justice System Is No Longer Independent: Part I (Sept. 21, 2023); Part II (Sept. 22, 2023); Part III (Sept. 25, 2023)
  • Nandini Sundar, The Supreme Court in Modi’s India, 1 Journal of Right-Wing Studies 106 (2023)
• Myanmar
  • Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Citizenship Stripping in Myanmar as Lawfare, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 4(2) (2022)

Europe

• Spain
  • The IBA expresses serious concerns about a potential erosion of the rule of law in Spain – International Bar Association (Nov. 13, 2023)
  • Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse: toxic politics in Spain reflect the new Europe – The Guardian (Jon Henley, Apr. 24, 2024)
  • Pedro Sánchez: Spain’s prime minister averts crisis but political schism could deepen – BBC (Guy Hedgecoe, Apr. 29, 2024)
  • Damià Del Clot, Lawfare: Judicial Warfare in Spain (2023) (excerpt)
• Hungary
  • Orbán’s Lawfare against Liberal Dimocracy in Hungary – Geneva Graduate Institute (Shalini Randeria, Sept. 2017)

United States

• Trump et al.
  • Lawfare, The Trump Trials (https://www.lawfaremedia.org/current-projects/the-trump-trials) (last accessed June 2, 2024)
  • Jason Willick, Opinion: How Congress Could Curb the Use of Lawfare for Partisan Attacks, Wash. Post, June 11, 2024
  • 2024 US election vocab: Cheap fakes, Dobbs dads, lawfare – Reuters (June 18, 2024)
  • Reactions to Donald Trump being found guilty in historic New York trial – Reuters (May 30, 2024)
  • Trump’s G.O.P. Allies Assail His Guilty Verdict and Warn It Will Backfire – N.Y. Times (Neil Vigdor & Luke Broadwater, May 30, 2024)
  • Trump’s Ongoing Campaign Against Lawfare, Wall Street Journal Editorial Report (Mar. 31, 2024) (video)
  • Donald Trump: This trial is political ‘lawfare’ – BBC (Nov. 3, 2023)
  • Cf. Victoria E. Collins & Dawn L. Rothe, A Legacy of Harm: Violence Against Women and the Trump Administration, in U. S. Democracy in Danger: The American Political System Under Assault 311 (Adebowale Akande ed., 2023) (concept of “lawfare” used “to illustrate how the neoliberal carceral state uses the domestic legal system to roll back the advancements of women’s rights”)
• T. Jones, Trans Bans Expand: Anti-LGBTIQ+ Lawfare and Neo-fascism, Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2024)
• Carlos Joly, “Is ‘Lawfare’ at Work in the US?”, Journal of
  Right-Wing Studies Blog, Apr. 27, 2023
• Cf. Yvonne K. Puig & Samuel Romero Ramer, “Will the Dobbs decision bring political as well as legal risk?,” (Norton Rose Fulbright Sept. 2022) (threat of “lawfare” through the civil discovery process)

MCLR+ Events & Publications

• Lawfare in Comparative Context
  • Panel Discussion (June 13, 2024) (live streamed on YouTube.com/@ModCrimLRev)
  • MCLR+ Forum (forthcoming fall 2024)

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* All materials open access if available. Online materials last accessed October 19, 2024, unless otherwise indicated.