Rule of Law in Crisis

Martin Belov is professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria.

Introduction; PART I Rule of Law, Emergency Constitutionalism and Constitutional Polycrisis 1 Rule of law and democracy in times of transitory constitutionalism, constitutional polycrisis and emergency constitutionalism: Towards a global algorithmic technocracy?; 2 Rule of law and balance of rights in the COVID-19 pandemic; PART II Rule of Law as Dynamic Concept Dependent on Constitutional Imaginaries, Memory Politics and Identity Politics 3 Imaginary of the rule of law as a force of societal transition: Central and East European lessons from European (dis)integration; 4 Rule of law and constitutionalisation of memory politics in Hungary and Russia; 5 Rule of law, populism and “state–religion” relations in South-Eastern Europe: Comparative research with particular attention to the Bulgarian post-communist secularism; PART III EU Perspectives on the Rule of Law Crisis 6 The institutional politics of the European Union’s rule of law crisis; 7 Rule of law crisis and the constitutional ‘awareness’ of the EU; 8 Rule of law in the EU and its crisis: Central and Eastern European experiences; PART IV Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Review: Safeguards or Challenge for Rule of Law? 9 Constitutional limits on legal interpretation; 10 Material justice and formal-procedural rule of law: Conceptual asymmetries; 11 The constitutional review in a state pretending to be ruled by law; 12 The Bulgarian Constitutional Court as a positive legislator; Conclusion