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This book analyses the problem of the possibility of guaranteeing the constitutionality of law in cases when a constitutional court either has been weakened or does not exist. A starting point is the emergence of the so-called illiberal constitutionalism in several states as this phenomenon gravely affects the functioning of constitutional courts.
List of contents
1. Turbulent times in the constitutionalism of Central and Eastern European countries;
Part I. Basic Problems of Activity of Constitutional Courts in an Illiberal Constitutionalism; 2. Constitutional jurisdiction and primacy of the Constitution; 3. Constitutionality of law without a constitutional court in the Polish setting; 4. The problem of the so-called dispersed judicial review of parliamentary acts in Poland - traditions and current perspectives; 5. Admissibility of judicial review in states with a centralised model of constitutional review - in search of effective means of constitutional protection; 6. Parliamentary constitutional review in times of the constitutional crisis in Poland;
Part II. Problems of Activity of Constitutional Courts in Selected Countries; 7. From guarding the constitution to serving politics - the decline of the Hungarian Constitutional Court; 8. For now, we see in a mirror dimly - a current perception of Hungarian constitutional justice from an international and comparative national perspective; 9. A missed dialogue: the European Court of Justice and the Romanian Constitutional Court; 10. The Turkish Constitutional Court and emergency regimes in the age of democratic backsliding; 11. Constitutional review in the abusive constitutionalism (continuation, corruption, or disappearance?);
Part III. The Variety of Forms of Guaranteeing Constitutionality of Law; 12. The curious case of the Netherlands - reflections on the question whether the dismantling of democracy and the rule of law can be stopped by courts of law; 13. The Finnish Constitutional Exceptionalism: the pluralist system of constitutional review combining ex ante and ex post functions of review; 14. Conclusion. What next?
About the author
Miros¿aw Granat is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland, and a head of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration.
Summary
This book analyses the problem of the possibility of guaranteeing the constitutionality of law in cases when a constitutional court either has been weakened or does not exist. A starting point is the emergence of the so-called illiberal constitutionalism in several states as this phenomenon gravely affects the functioning of constitutional courts.
