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This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
List of contents
Introduction: Law, Populism and the Political in Semi-Peripheral Central and Eastern Europe
Rafä Mäko, Przemys¿aw Tacik and Cosmin Cercel 1. Populism, Legal Studies and CEE: Some Meta-Reflections
Przemys¿aw 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 Michä Stambulski 5.
Exceptio Popularis: Resisting Illiberal Legality
Rafä Mäko 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 ¿uroš 9. Judicializing Communism: Transitional Justice and Nationalist Populism in the Uneven Time-Space of Eastern Europe
Saygun Gökar¿ksel 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 Rafä Mäko
About the author
Rafä Mäko 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 Wroc¿aw, Poland.
Przemys¿aw 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.
