ABOUT
The Interest Group on Constitutional Law through Popular Culture: Imaginaries, Representations and Narratives starts from the premise that popular culture has become a central setting in which citizens encounter and interpret public law.
Films, television series, comics, graphic novels, manga, anime, videogames, and other cultural forms shape collective understandings of constitutional values, democratic institutions, rights, justice, and political authority. They can also offer searching critiques of constitutional change and influence the wider constitutional imagination.
Although Law and Popular Culture is now an established field, its public-law and constitutional dimensions remain comparatively underexplored. At the same time, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, constitutional identity, migration, climate change, digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and global crises are increasingly represented, anticipated, and contested through popular culture.