Center for Law and Democracy
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Center at @UTAustin supporting research, teaching, and publishing at the nexus of public law and political science
Joined August 2025
Center faculty affiliate and @UTexasLaw professor Joshua Sellers discusses #voterregistration, #voterID, and bridging #politicaldivides in this thought-provoking piece for @NYULawDemProjct. Read more at https://t.co/fPvcHSCKzI!
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Join us Nov. 7 for Constitutional and Civic Education in Times of Upheaval with @UTexasLaw's Constitutional Studies Program, Cynthia and Sandy Levinson, and faculty and civic leaders from across the country. Read more at https://t.co/NDdEeUx2gI.
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Calling all @UTAustin students interested in law school! Join us and @txprelaw on October 21 for a talk with @UTexasLaw Professor Joshua Sellers on applying to law school, how law school operates, and the career possibilities a JD provides. More at https://t.co/Q59tY2qKSI.
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We're excited to launch the @UTLaw_Democracy newsletter at @UTAustin! It includes news on new #fellowships and internships abroad, on-campus and virtual #events, and faculty #research. Read it at https://t.co/mmtUXGwos3. Sign up for future issues at https://t.co/JmtL7fhiCB!
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Announcement 📣Constitutional Studies Convenes Meet-the-Editors Meetings (Online) ⬇️⬇️
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Join us at @UTAustin on October 21 for this talk by János Fazekas comparing #court approaches to deciding whether to adjudicate politically sensitive cases in #Europe and the #UnitedStates.
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#CallforPapers 📝Bastion of Democracy: The Role of Courts in Navigating Democratic Governance. February 26–27, 2026 | The University of Texas at Austin. Submit your abstract via Google Form by Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025, 11:59 PM (CT). ⬇️⬇️
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Join CS for Meet the Editors meetings on October 16 and 17 to hear about the journal's #interdisciplinary publishing, #openaccess approach, #multilingual policies, #global reach, and other benefits of publishing with CS. Details and registration are at https://t.co/MmgmnqBMID.
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#CallforPapers 📝Constitutional Studies: Submissions for 2026 Issues Now Open in English, French, and Spanish ⬇️⬇️
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Pleased to see our Center covered in @thedailytexan on what we seek to achieve! The story is also a great reflection of the top-notch students @UTAustin, written by a journalism major in @TheLBJSchool's inaugural undergraduate class! #HookEm Read more at https://t.co/dZW6K5M7zN.
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Reminder: Our #StateoftheField symposium continues on September 30 with CS authors discussing ground-breaking new theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses on #democratic and #constitutional #backsliding. Register at https://t.co/dg7rP92L4g.
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The Center for Law and Democracy, a new center within @LiberalArtsUT, is an interdisciplinary center that is committed to advancing research, teaching and publishing in the field of law and democracy to understand how it shapes our world. Read more ➡️:
liberalarts.utexas.edu
The College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to announce the formal launch of the Center for Law and Democracy, an initiative dedicated to supporting research, teaching,...
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Big news from the Comparative Constitutions Project! We just released an open-source #NLP tool for researchers: the "Segments-as-Topics" (SAT) method. Perfect for analyzing #constitutions #courtrulings and other text corpora. Video tutorial below! 🎥 https://t.co/5r6tRcz2cY
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The method helps researchers integrate new topics into social science vocabularies by bridging automated text analysis with domain expertise - exactly what we needed for our own research! You can download the tools on GitHub:
github.com
Contribute to conceptintegration/Segments-as-Topics development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Learn more about our broader Concept Integration in Comparative Law project: https://t.co/ugudQZRnCX We'd love to hear your thoughts and see how you might use this in your own research! What applications do you envision?
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In our continuing #StateoftheField symposium, CS authors provide ground-breaking new theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses on a central challenge of our time, assessing #democratic and #constitutional #backsliding on September 30. Register at https://t.co/dg7rP92deI.
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Reminder: This week CS convenes leading scholars to assess the #StateoftheField, providing a sweeping view of #constitutionalchange, the evolution of #constitutionalsystems and #court impacts in #Africa, #Asia, #Oceania and #postSoviet states. Register at https://t.co/W1RDyx9fgl.
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Huge news! CS is now accepting submissions for our 2026 issues in #English, #French, and #Spanish. We accept submissions from varied disciplines on the theory and practice of constitutional government around the world. Read the call for papers at https://t.co/taYo6Gbz00.
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Calling @UTAustin students interested in #democracy and #constitutional development! The @EmbeddedScholar application is open for the #Balkans, #CentralAsia, #Europe & #LatinAmerica in Summer 2026. Applications due November 1! Read more and apply now at https://t.co/uNfsVqN7or.
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