Many thanks to all participants! The event on Autocratic Legalism in Europe with Professor Kim Lane Scheppele of Princeton, and Professor Adam Bodnar, Polish Commissioner for Human Rights – joined by Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School, Professor Paul Kahn, was a success with almost 80 judges, scholars, students, practitionners etc. joining.
The video of the event is available here.
Here is also a list of reading suggestions related to the talks and discussion:
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Laurent Pech and Kim Lane Scheppele, “Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU”, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, Vol. 19 (2017), pp. 3-47, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3009280 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3009280.
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Kim Lane Scheppele, “Autocratic legalism”, The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 85, N°2 (2018) pp. 545-583.
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Dimitry Kochenov and Petra Bard, “The Last Soldier Standing? Courts vs. Politicians and the Rule of Law Crisis in the New Member States of the EU”, Eur Ybk Cont'l L, Vol. 1 (2019), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3339631 or here https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6265-359-7_1.
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Wojciech Sadurski, Poland's Constitutional Breakdown, OUP (2019).
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Dariusz Adamski, “The social contract of democratic backsliding in the “new EU” countries Common Market Law Review”, Vol. 56, N°3 (2019) pp. 623 – 666.
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Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, “Understanding the Politics of Resentment: of the Principles, Institutions, Counter-Strategies, Normative Change, and the Habits of Heart”, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 26, N°2 (2019), pp. 501-630.
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Kim Lane Scheppele, Dimitry Kochenov and Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, “EU Values are Law, after All: Enforcing EU Values through Systemic Infringement Actions by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union”, Yearbook of European Law, Vol. 38 (2020 - forthcoming), available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3706496.