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Antara Haldar


Antara Haldar is associate professor of empirical legal studies at the University of Cambridge, a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and principal investigator in a project supported by a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

Antara Haldar

Shock therapy killed Navalny

Antara Haldar 29th February 2024

While Vladimir Putin’s role is all but undeniable, there is a silent accomplice whose part in this tragedy must not be ignored.

‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream

Antara Haldar 2nd November 2023

Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap at the centre of economics.

After the ‘Beijing consensus’

Antara Haldar 8th September 2023

China’s development model has often been positioned as an alternative to the long-dominant ‘Washington consensus’.

The Supreme Court kicks away the ladder

Antara Haldar 12th July 2023

The US Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action in university admissions has struck at the heart of the ‘American dream’.

Wanted: Vladimir Putin

Antara Haldar 4th April 2023

Whether Russia’s president ever ends up in handcuffs, the International Criminal Court’s indictment is a big step in the right direction.

Killing Twitter

Antara Haldar 2nd December 2022

Elon Musk claims he bought the platform to ‘help humanity’ by investing in a public good—the world’s digital town square. But the people, not the pavement, make the town square.

Boris Johnson’s last affair?

Antara Haldar 17th February 2022

His cardinal sin is to have forgotten the core tenet of the rule of law: those who make the rules are bound by them.

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


Among this issue’s highlights, we discuss European defence strategies, assess how the US president's recent announcements will impact international trade and explore the risks  and opportunities that algorithms pose for workers.


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