Peace, Discontent and Constitutional Law

Martin Belov is Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’. He is Vice Dean of the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Faculty of Law responsible for the international relations and digitalization. He has published widely on aspects of comparative constitutional law.

Introduction

Part I. The Constitutional Foundations of Democratic Peace and Democratic Discontent in Times of Crisis and Transition






Constitutional Foundations of Peace and Discontent



The right to protest and contestation in a deliberative democracy
Part II. Peace and Discontent in the EU constitutional order




The Material Constitutional Arrangement of the European Union



"Don’t You Know They’re Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution? (It Sounds Like a Whisper)": the Bundesverfassungsgericht Ruling in Weiss



National identity (under Art. 4(2) TEU) and constitutional identity (as counter-limits) are not the same. Sailing amongst sincere cooperation revised and the perils of an unavoidable lacuna
Part III. Peace, Order, and Disorder in Composite Societies: National, Ethnocentric, and Religious Factors for Peace or Discontent




A transnational saga of concepts and realities in constitutional history: 1787-1867



Inequality and Post-Revolutionary Constitutionalism: A Comparative Law Inquiry on South Asia and Latin America



A Silent Revolution: How the Islamic Religious Law is Paving Its Way into the European Legal Orders
Part IV. Economic Challenges to Constitutional Peace and Order in Times of Crisis of Neoliberalism




The Transformative Side of Law – Reflections on the Reconstruction of a Radical Democratic Labour Law



The ‘Quiet’ Revolutions in Social Protection and the Constitutional Safeguards in Eastern Europe: The Cases of Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Latvia



Constitutional Change in Greece as a Result of the Financial Crisis: Privatizations and the (R)evolution of the Economic Constitution