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The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, based at the UCL Faculty of Laws, is a world-leading scholarly community for those working on questions of constitutional resilience.
Few if any of the global risks facing humanity can be solved without the leadership of democratic governments. However, democratic constitutional governance is in global retreat rather than advancement. But while the challenges of democratic decline and backsliding are well known, they are often framed solely in terms of politics or law. The Centre recognises that these threats to constitutionalism and the rule of law also jeopardise our global pathways for solving the existential issues of our time: climate change, migration, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism (to name but a few).
By creating an exceptional research community dedicated to the study of democracy, the rule of law, and constitutional resilience, the GCDC seeks to advance our understanding of the foundational issues on which our global future rests.
The Centre’s programme of activities include internal and external research seminars, lectures, the hosting of major international conferences, and the regular convening of scholars working on these themes, which in addition to the permanent membership also includes visiting fellows, post-doctoral researchers, and doctoral students.