1st Edition

Rule of Law, Common Values, and Illiberal Constitutionalism Poland and Hungary within the European Union

Edited By Tímea Drinóczi, Agnieszka Bień-Kacała Copyright 2021
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States. The book begins from the general presumption that the Rule of Law, since its emergence, has been a universal European value, a... Read more
 

Preface;

Rule of Law: In Context;

Chapter 1;
Tímea Drinóczi – Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, Illiberal Constitutionalism and the European Rule of Law;

Rule of Law: A Common Value;

Chapter 2;
Andrzej Madeja, The European Values and the Rule of Law;

Chapter 3;
Wojciech Włoch, ‘Where the Laws Do Not Govern, There is No Constitution’: On the Relationship between the Rule of Law and Constitutionalism;

Rule of Law in National Practice: Is It a Common Value?;

Chapter 4
András Jakab and Eszter Bodnár, The Rule of Law, Democracy and Human Rights in Hungary: Tendencies from 1989 until 2019

Chapter 5;
Tímea Drinóczi, The Rule of Law: The Hungarian Perspective;

Chapter 6;
Iwona Wróblewska, The Rule of Law: The Polish Perspective;

Rule of Law and Supranational Struggles: Is It a Common Value?;

Chapter 7;
Lóránt Csink, Rule of Law in Hungary. What Can Law and Politics Do?;

Chapter 8;
Sylwia Majkowska-Szulc, Safeguarding the European Union’s Core Values: The EU Rule of Law Mission in Poland;

Chapter 9;
Agnieszka Grzelak, Are the EU Member States still Masters of the Treaties? The European Rule of Law Concept as a Means of Limiting National Authorities;

Illiberal legality vs. European Rule of Law;

Chapter 10;
Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, Illiberal Legality;

 

Biography

Tímea Drinóczi is a Full Professor at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law and the doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.

Agnieszka Bien-Kacała is an Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of Law and Administration, Constitutional Law Department, Poland.