Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024) at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg Center in Washington DC. This is a small, invitational workshop on the future of democracy. As with the previous two workshops, the goal was to bring … Read more
Competition law, given its history and potential as a tool of anti-domination, is a natural fit to protect and revitalise democracy in Europe from the threats posed by excessive concentrations of private power. Yet competition law is often seen as a limited tool, capable of playing only a marginal role in Europe’s response to the … Read more
At the dawn of 2025, liberal democracy is faced with a considerable challenge: Big Tech bosses appear to leverage their market power for far-reaching political influence, without any democratic legitimisation to do so. As someone working on issues of market power in the digital economy, one cannot help but wonder: shouldn’t competition law be able … Read more
As I write this review on the eve of 2025, much hasn’t changed when it comes to the status of democracy in India. If anything, there are increasing concerns that the gains of democratic consolidation since the inauguration of the Indian Constitution are withering away and giving ample space for the entrenchment of a majoritarian, … Read more
The Romanian Constitutional Court’s Annulment of Presidential Elections On December 6th, the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) annulled the Presidential Elections while Romanian expats were queuing at the polls, mandating a complete re-do of the entire electoral process. The decision culminates the two-week long mayhem generated by Călin Georgescu’s victory in the first (preliminary) round of … Read more
