Constitutionalism under Stress

Introduction: Academic Legacy of Wojciech Sadurski, Rule of Law, and Mnemonic Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe, Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

Part One: Populism and Democratic Decline in Central and Eastern Europe
1:The Rise of Nationalist Populism and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in Central Europe, Bojan Bugarič
2:Constitutional Breakdown, Backsliding, or New Post-Conventional Constitutionalism?, Adam Czarnota
3:Democratic Erosion Without Prerequisites? Poland and the Two Liberalisms, Tom Ginsburg
4:The Alternatives to a Bite or a Bark: After Launching Article 7 TEU Against the Hungarian Government, Gábor Halmai
5:Polish Lessons: Backsliding, Sabotage, and the Rule of Law, Martin Krygier
6:The Rule of Law Paradox in the 2016 Constitutional Amendments in Albania, Darinka Piqani
7:Constitutional Security in a State of Emergency, Mirosław Wyrzykowski

Part Two: The EU Role vis-à-vis Rule of Law
8:Reinvigorating Democracy in the European Union: Lessons from Ireland's Citizens Assembly?, Gráinne de Búrca
9:On Barks, Bites, and Promises, Dimitry Kochenov
10:Article 7 TEU: From 'Nuclear Option' to 'Sisyphean Procedure'?, Laurent Pech
11:A Social Theory of Constitutional Imaginaries: Beyond the Unity of topos-ethnos-nomos and its European Context, Jiří Pribáň
12:Two Charters and a Pillar: The Slow Constitutionalization of Social Rights in European Law, Bruno de Witte

Part Three: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy: Constitutional Review and Public Reason
13:Breaking Down the Meaning of Constitutional Breakdown, Tom Gerald Daly
14:An Enlightened Man, Samuel Issacharoff
15:On Legalism, Illiberal Takeover and the Immune System of Constitutional Democracy, Armen Mazmanyan
16:Diffuse Constitutionality Review in Germany, Mathias Möschel
17:The Problem of Peer Review in Militant Democracy, Jan Werner Mueller
18:Extracting Voters From the Nation: Regime-Building in 19th Century Hungary and England through Electoral Legislation, András Sajó
19:Public Reason and Illiberal Democracy, Anna Śledzińska-Simon
20:Liberal Nationalism's Precarious Prospects, Neil Walker

Epilogue: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man (Mat. 15:11): So Why do The Jews Observe Kosher?, J. H. H. Weiler