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We often frame authoritarianism as lawless, marked by constitutional rupture or institutional breakdown. But some of the most effective assaults on democracy have operated through law itself.

Around the world, leaders like Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey and the former prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, have used legal systems, rules of law, and institutional practices to consolidate power, ... more

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We often imagine authoritarianism as the abandonment of law, a moment of rupture when constitutions are torn up and courts are shut down. But some of history’s most effective assaults on democracy have worked through law rather than against it. In th... more

The Bush administration’s use of torture after 9/11 was aided by government lawyers who provided contorted legal justifications for its use against detainees. In this episode, Alberto Mora, who served as General Counsel of the Navy during the George ... more

What happens when lawyers stop believing that law and politics are different things? Constitutional law scholar Deborah Pearlstein joins host Katy Glenn Bass to discuss legal ethics, the rule of law, and how decades of erosion of norms within the leg... more

Bribery is the corruption we prosecute. But according to Lawrence Lessig, it's institutional corruption that poses the most danger to American democracy. Hosts Katy Glenn Bass and Madhav Khosla speak with the Harvard Law professor who makes a pointed... more

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Deborah Pearlstein
Director of the Princeton Program in Law and Public Policy
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Episode: When Lawyers Stop Following the Rules: How Politics Became Law
Kim Lane Scheppele
Law and sociology of law expert, Princeton University
Princeton University
Episode: What Does Legal Authoritarianism Look Like?
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Professor at Princeton University
Princeton University
Episode: "Lawyering Without Law," a New Podcast from the Knight First Amendment Institute
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Professor at Harvard Law School
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Episode: "Lawyering Without Law," a New Podcast from the Knight First Amendment Institute

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When Lawyers Stop Following the Rules: How Politics Became Law
Q: What reforms does the guest propose to restore integrity to the DOJ and the broader legal profession?
A combination of institutional reforms (court reforms, independent disciplinary bodies, reforming the US Marshals to be under the judiciary) and possible codification of ethical norms into law, while recognizing potential constitutional challenges, plus a constitutional amendment to reestablish a balance of executive power.
When Lawyers Stop Following the Rules: How Politics Became Law
Q: What is the No Lying in Law rule, and why is it important?
The No Lying in Law rule is a fundamental professional norm prohibiting lawyers from lying to tribunals, which helps maintain the reality-based, legitimacy-bearing function of the legal system, distinguishing law from politics and supporting accountability for legal actors.
When Lawyers Stop Following the Rules: How Politics Became Law
Q: What are the links in the chain from the Reagan era to today that people should know about?
The conversation traces a shift from reforming the Department of Justice and ethics regimes after Watergate to an intellectual shift tied to unitary executive theory and originalism, which helped justify overturning numerous Supreme Court decisions and reconfiguring the balance of power between Congress and the presidency, culminating in a modern environment where law can be used to further political aims.
Principle vs. Profit: How Institutions Lose Their Way
Q: Can you tell us what you mean by institutional corruption and why it's such a problem today?
Lessig argues that corruption often shows up as dependencies and incentives within institutions—economic and political pressures that steer decision-making away from their core purposes—even if no one breaks the law. The issue is structural, not merely illegal behavior, and it affects major bodies like Congress and the judiciary.

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