Anti-Constitutional Populism

Introduction: anti-constitutional populism Martin Krygier
Part I. Populisms:
1. Populist constitutionalism – between democracy and authoritarianism Bojan Bugarič
2. Anti-elitism and the constitution – some reflections on populist constitutionalism Lucia Corso
3. Constitutional populism in South Africa Theunis Roux
4. Subaltern populism – Dutertismo and the war on constitutional democracy Richard Javad Heydarian
Part II. Courts:
5. Populism, Constitutional democracy, and high courts – lessons from the Venezuelan Case Raul A. Sánchez Urribarrí
6. When Bolsonaro and the judges go shopping – how Brazil's legal elites opened the door for Bolsonaro's bad populism Alexandre Fleck Soares Brandao
7. Disarming the guardians – the transformation of the Hungarian Constitutional Court after 2010 Eszter Bodnár
Part III. Anti-Constitutionalism After Post-Communism:
8. Conservative populism in defiance of anti-totalitarian constitutional democracy Paul Blokker
9. Constitutional populism and the rule of law in Poland Michał Stambulski
10. Populism or authoritarianism? A plaidoyer against illiberal or authoritarian constitutionalism Gábor Halmai
Part IV. EU Responses:
11. Populism and the crisis of constitutional pluralism Julian Scholtes
12. Populist constitutional grammar – between manipulative borrowing and bad (judicial) masters Oreste Pollicino
Constitutional populism versus EU law: a much more complex story than you imagined Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov and Barbara Grabowska-Moroz
V. Concluding Reflections:
14. Sources of constitutional populism – democracy, identity, and economic exclusion Adam Czarnota
15. Institutional populism, courts and the European Union Wojciech Sadurski.

Martin Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of New South Wales, Honorary Professor at RegNet, Australian National University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Rule of Law Program, Central European University Democracy Institute. He has written extensively on the rule of law, its challenges and challengers.

Adam Czarnota is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales, and Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory, University of Wrocław. He teaches philosophy and sociology of law as well as history of legal and political ideas and comparative law.