Across multiple projects, I investigate how criminal justice institutions evolve, adapt, and are sometimes captured — and how these transformations affect democratic governance, prosecutorial power, victim participation, and citizen perceptions of fairness. Substantively, my work focuses on courts, prosecutors, NGOs, and emerging justice institutions. Theoretically, I bridge scholarship on institutional design, norm diffusion, democratic backsliding, and legal mobilization. Here are some of the questions that drive my research agenda.