--- title: Ian Bassin and Justin Florence is on the TIME100 Next 2024 List description: Find out how Ian Bassin and Justin Florence is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023500/ian-bassin-and-justin-florence/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-02T11:11:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-28T06:29:02.710Z article:section: World og:title: 2024 TIME100 Next: Ian Bassin and Justin Florence og:description: Find out why Ian Bassin and Justin Florence is on this year’s TIME100 Next list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023500/ian-bassin-and-justin-florence/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a3e03673e0c8cd/698a5bab929fadf7bdbfd120/time100-next-2024-ian-bassin-justin-florence.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2024 TIME100 Next: Ian Bassin and Justin Florence og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2024 TIME100 Next: Ian Bassin and Justin Florence twitter:description: Find out why Ian Bassin and Justin Florence is on this year’s TIME100 Next list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a3e03673e0c8cd/698a5bab929fadf7bdbfd120/time100-next-2024-ian-bassin-justin-florence.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 02, 2024 # Ian Bassin and Justin Florence by John Dean  Ian Bassin and Justin Florence Ian Bassin and Justin FlorenceCourtesy John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Courtesy Maya Florence Ian Bassin and Justin Florence are uniquely qualified to address the rising threat of authoritarianism in the U.S. Skilled attorneys and collaborators since Yale Law School, both are knowledgeable, empathetic, and deeply committed to the greater good. Through Protect Democracy, a nonprofit they co-founded in 2017, Ian and Justin work to help ensure free and fair elections and make democratic institutions more resilient by employing research, advocacy, and litigation. Authoritarianism adapts and evolves. Like a virus, it seeks new ways to exploit weaknesses in democratic systems and circumvent the safeguards designed to protect freedom. Ian and Justin are fighting on all fronts to protect the process, combat disinformation and falsehoods with truth, and inform the public of the risks we face. Because their work can be technical and behind-the-scenes, it is too often unheralded, but they’ve been busy working on key reforms, from formulating recommendations that helped rewrite the archaic Electoral Count Act, to providing advice and assistance to the Jan. 6 committee, to securing a $148 million ­defamation judgment in December against former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani after he falsely accused Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of election fraud. It’s vital (and forever) work to protect our democracy’s most foundational institutions, made even more urgent by a consequential election. _Dean, a former Nixon White House counsel, is on Protect Democracy’s advisory board_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023500/ian-bassin-and-justin-florence/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023500/ian-bassin-and-justin-florence/"},"headline":"Ian Bassin and Justin Florence","datePublished":"2024-10-02T11:11:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-28T06:29:02.710Z","description":"Find out how Ian Bassin and Justin Florence are shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership.","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023500/ian-bassin-and-justin-florence/","keywords":["list","franchise","Magazine","TIME 100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a3e03673e0c8cd/698a5bab929fadf7bdbfd120/time100-next-2024-ian-bassin-justin-florence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"John Dean","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/john-dean/"}],"creator":"John Dean","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38a3e03673e0c8cd/698a5bab929fadf7bdbfd120/time100-next-2024-ian-bassin-justin-florence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2024/7023500/ian-bassin-and-justin-florence/","name":"Ian Bassin and Justin Florence"}}]}] ```