Constitutional Justice under Populism: The Transformation of Constitutional Jurisprudence in Hungary

Features:

Since the subject-matter of the volume is by its approach of constitutional change in populism is an unexamined one, neither a monograph nor an edited volume on the effects of populism on a specific legal institution, one already facing different external challenges (financial crisis, migration, security crisis, Covid-19 etc. issues), has been published so far. The book follows a unique approach in the framework of populist constitutionalism studies, because it combines the following features:

• focuses on one of the greatest contemporary challenges to constitutional democracies;
• is authored by a pre-eminent scholar of Hungarian law;
• gives insight into the various problems of constitutional review, the transformation of the institution by constitution-making and legislation and its legal practice; and
• contributes to the theories of and knowledge on the impacts of external challenges, especially those created by political systems, on the constitution and law by focusing on studying the transformation of the Hungarian Constitutional Court.
• it provides additional information with high contextual value to the book edited by the author: Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, together with Kinga Zakariás, entitled: 30 Years of jurisprudence of the Hungarian Constitutional Court 1990-2020 (Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2022).

Benefits: Because of the uniqueness of the topic of the book, its target group includes scholars an