Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Commissioning editor: Mónika Ambrus
Series editors: Gábor Halmai, Barbara Havelková, Julian Scholtes, Anna Śledzińska-Simon, and Max Steuer
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Conventionally, studies of constitutionalism have been driven by a few dominant jurisdictions, located in Anglophone countries, with separate regional discourses in areas aided by language affinities. Eastern and Central Europe (encompassing the region of the Western Balkans and Ukraine) includes many, especially smaller jurisdictions and phenomena of interest to the study of constitutionalism that are at the margins of globally accessible knowledge. Moreover, this region has received increased scholarly attention primarily through the discourses on ‘illiberal/populist/authoritarian’ constitutionalism – but these discourses also create and perpetuate a particular image of the region, while beyond illiberalism, scholarly attention has been scant. Central and Eastern Europe’s ‘peripheral’ status within the wider ‘Global North’ means that local constitutional phenomena are often understudied, underfunded, and confined to ‘outlier’ status. Scholarly collaborations, including through book series offer a unique opportunity to recognize that ‘core/periphery divide’ is not confined to a ‘North/South’ divide, but is a more complex process. Overall, the series aids in recognizing and finding new constitutional ideas to address the dynamics of hierarchies in the studies and practices of constitutions.
Advisory Board
Martin Belov Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria
Bojan Bugarič, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Michaela Hailbronner, Professor of German and International Public Law and Comparative Law, University of Münster, Germany
Roman Petrov, Professor, Head of the Department of International and European Law, Director of the Institute of German Law, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Anita Rodina, Vice President of the Latvian Constitutional Court, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Latvia, Latvia
Silvia Suteu, Full-time Professor, Department of Law, European University Institute, Italy