Abstract
The Virtual Global Roundtable ‘”Democracy 2020: Assessing Constitutional Decay, Breakdown and Renewal Worldwide” was a global event held on 18–26 November 2020, featuring fifty-eight speakers from five continents across nine webinars, and an audience of almost six hundred from fifty-four countries. The roundtable, organised under the aegis of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), was co-sponsored by the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School and the School of Government at the University of Melbourne. This special issue of Constitutional Studies aims to provide a sense of the breadth and depth of discussions at the Global Roundtable and to identify how they advance our understanding of different dimensions of constitutional decay, breakdown, and renewal worldwide. In this introduction we provide an overview of the Roundtable, an overview of the seven contributions to this special issue, and our own reflections on the productive directions researchers are taking worldwide.
