Event Description
Amid the global decline in democratic vitality, proponents of democracy have, at the theoretical level, explored various strategies to halt or even reverse the trajectory of democratic backsliding. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the existing socio-legal limits that hinder the implementation of these ideas, and what proponents of democratic innovations at the national level can learn from an international perspective. The lecture will explore the issue from comparative constitutional and campaign finance perspectives by contrasting the hurdles to democratic advancement in Canada and Germany, shedding light on both the different potentials and problems in the two nations.
For more information and Zoom details, email Louise Chen at chen@allard.ubc.ca.
Co-hosted by Allard Graduate Programs in Law and the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law.
Speaker
Kristof Heidemann is a visiting PhD researcher from the University of Turku in Finland. His research focuses on democratic backsliding and possible constitutional countermeasures. He has previously studied in Germany, Norway and Japan, and is an affiliated researcher with UBC from April to June 2026.
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