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Law, Populism, and the Political in Central and Eastern Europe

276 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

276 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

276 Pages
by Birkbeck Law Press

This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Against the backdrop of weak institutional traditions, frequent and profound transformations, and deep historical traumas affecting the law, politics, economy and society in the region, the book critically examines the entanglements of legality in the region’s transformation... Read more

Introduction: Law, Populism and the Political in Semi-Peripheral Central and Eastern Europe 

Rafał Mańko, Przemysław Tacik and Cosmin Cercel 

1. Populism, Legal Studies and CEE: Some Meta-Reflections 

Przemysław Tacik 

2. Against ‘Populism’: Critical Legal Studies and Authoritarian Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 

Cosmin Cercel 

3. The Polish Constitutional Court in the Grip of Neo-liberalism 

Adam Sulikowski 

4. Populism and the Politics of Human Rights: The Case of Poland 

Karolina Kocemba and Michał Stambulski 

5. Exceptio Popularis: Resisting Illiberal Legality 

Rafał Mańko 

6. Constitutional Signalling in Neoliberal Times: A Romanian Perspective 

Alexandra Mercescu 

7. “Law Is Not Politics” – the Role of the Liberal View on Law in the Rise of ‘New Populism’ 

Mátyás Bencze 

8. Who Stands In The Mirror And Who Stares Back – Traditions Of Populism In Slovakia 

Peter Čuroš 

9. Judicializing Communism: Transitional Justice and Nationalist Populism in the Uneven Time-Space of Eastern Europe 

Saygun Gökarıksel 

10. Russian Conservatism and Populism: Between the Legal and the Political 

Mikhail Antonov 

Conclusions: Post-communism, Neoliberalism and Populism in the Semi-Periphery 

Adam Sulikowski and Rafał Mańko

Biography

Rafał Mańko is Research Affiliate at the Central European University Democracy Institute, Budapest (Hungary) and Legal Researcher at the European Parliamentary Research Service, Brussels (Belgium).

Adam Sulikowski is Full Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław, Poland.

Przemysław Tacik is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland, and Director of the Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power.

Cosmin Cercel is Associate Professor in Law at Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland.