Wojciech Sadurski
Auteur van Rights Before Courts: A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe
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Rights Before Courts: A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe (2005) 8 exemplaren
Central and Eastern Europe After Transition: Towards a New Socio-legal Semantics (Studies in Modern Law and Policy) (2016) 3 exemplaren
Political Rights under Stress in 21st Century Europe (Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law) (2006) 2 exemplaren
Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?: The Impact of EU Enlargemente for the Rule of Law, Democracy and… (2006) 1 exemplaar
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As the title of the book implies, the author focuses primarily on how the highest legal institutions in Poland were brought under PIS control. In fact he goes into excessive detail on this topic. Readers who are unfamiliar with the Polish legal system would have been better served by a general overview of what happened instead of this day-by-day and decision-by-decision account. The same problem reoccurs when the author discusses the legal decisions by which the European Union has reacted to the PIS takeover. I assume the author is a lawyer or legal scholar who has followed these events meticulously. Unfortunately he does not simplify the story enough for readers who are not experts in Polish or EU law. He also uses acronyms excessively, which makes it even more difficult to keep track of the legal details. It's a disservice to the reader to constantly refer the "CT" instead of just spelling out "Constitutional Tribunal".
Nevertheless, the problems that the Polish legal system has encountered and the authoritarian steps that were taken in other parts of society are eventually summarized in clear language. The author also gives a competent analysis of the underlying problems from the perspective of political and institutional theory. All in all, this is not a happy story, but it is an unfinished one. I for one will follow the political situation in Poland with renewed interest and better understanding after reading this book. This book can be recommended as a detailed complement to recent general works on populism and democratic erosion such as Mounk's "The People vs. Democracy".… (meer)