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• European Union and European Council, special focus on criminal law / Krisztina Karsai and Liane Wörner
• The European court system and its role in shaping European criminal law / Liz Heffernan
• Human rights protection through the lens of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR / Noreen O'Meara
• Primacy, duty of loyalty and interpretation / Emanuela Fronza
• Supranational criminal law, harmonisation and approximation / Kimmo Nuotio
• Mutual recognition and mutual trust / Philipp Ronsfeld
• Protection of the financial Interests of the EU (Art. 325 TFEU) / Stefanie Bock
• Cross-border crimes / Marianne L. Wade
• Further areas / Jan Stajnko, Petra Weingerl and Miha Šepec
• Fundamental rights protection / Martin Böse
• Extradition and surrender : from a bilateral political arrangement to a triangular legal procedure / Pedro Caiero and Miguel João Costa
• Further mutual legal assistance: the European investigation order / Lorena Bachmaier Winter
• Police cooperation / Kai Ambos and Peter Rackow
• Office de Lutte Antifraud (OLAF) / Olivier Cahn
• Europol / Katalin Ligeti and Fabio Giuffrida
• Eurojust / Alejandro Hernández López and Francisco Jiménez-Villarejo Fernández
• A European Public Prosecutor Office to protect common financial interests : a milestone for the EU integration process / Silvia Allegrezza
• Brexit and European Criminal Law / Valsamis Mitsilegas
• Rethinking European Criminal Law / Frank Meyer.

"The Cambridge Companion to European Criminal Law is of interest for a broad range of readers, from law students and the interested public, to specialized practitioners and legal scholars. Its essays, written by renowned international experts, combine the highest academic standards with comprehensibility"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Main features and challenges of the political system
• The Mechanisms of ethnic power-sharing
• The Legislature
• The Executive
• The Judiciary.

"The book describes and evaluates the status and functioning of the constitutional and governance systems of the Western Balkans countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Serbia), with regard to their EU-accession. As it describes the main branches of government functions, it may also be used as a handbook, which also identifies the bottlenecks of governance (especially the sensitive ethnic power sharing and representation issues) and critically examines the rule of law aspects. This comparative study covers all six countries of the region systematically, in terms of governance and rule of law. The book presents all major institutional fields of constitutional and administrative law: electoral system, ethnic issues, organization of the state, separation of powers (legislative, executive, judiciary), administrative procedure, civil service, and constitutional adjudication" -- Provided by publisher.

• Data at the boundaries of (European) law : a first cut / Mariavittoria Catanzariti and Deirdre Curtin
• Boundary work between computational 'law' and 'law as-we-know-it' / Mireille Hildebrandt
• Thinking inside the box : the promise and boundaries of transparency in automated decision-making / Ida Koivisto
• Post-GDPR lawmaking in the digital data society : mimesis without integration - topological understandings of twisted boundary setting in EU data protection law / Paul de Hert
• Beyond originator control of personal data in EU interoperable information systems : towards data originalism / Mariavittoria Catanzariti and Deirdre Curtin
• Bits, bytes, searches, and hits : logging-in accountability for EU data-led security / Deirdre Curtin and Marieke de Goede

"Data at the Boundaries of European Law represents an original and engaged piece of scholarship in an important and fast developing field of policy and research. Beyond, and including, the most recent major new pieces of EU legislation-the Data Governance Act, together with the Data Act and the AI Act still going through the legislative process-this book draws attention to the substance of a number of core themes of the relationship between law and the digital world that are still somewhat hidden. These themes include the mimetic regulatory trajectories in and around the GDPR, transparency, ownership, and accountability, as well as the translation of all of these into core areas of public law such as criminal law, migration law, and intellectual property law. As a result, this book occupies a distinctive place in the debate on digital law that goes beyond the various silos of knowledge of particular legal disciplines. The issues addressed in this book are of interest to a global readership. They grapple with a number of the difficult themes of our times as applied to private and public actors and their (future) regulation in a manner that is relevant not just in Europe but worldwide"-- Provided by publisher

• Experience and community of sense in legal education : a pragmatic approach / Michał Paździora
• Education and democratic values from the transitional justice perspective / Michał Krotoszyński
• Post-communist legal education? / Filip Cyuńczyk
• Hierarchies and authority in legal education : contesting professorial power / Michał Stambulski
• Discourse of the master, discourse of the university : an archaeology of modern legal education in Romania / Cosmin Sebatian Cercel
• Law schools between autonomy and democracy : the case of Romanian legal academia / Alexandra Mercescu
• Coronavirus at the Faculty of Law, McGill University : The Long and Winding Road to Remote Pedagogy / Mirosław Michał Sadowski
• Legal education in Croatia : the influence of integral theory of law / Marin Keršić
• Interdisciplinary research on the judiciary in Hungary / Edina Vinnai
• When and how can linguistic comparison help to interpret the EU legislation? / Karolina Paluszek
• Current issues in the relation between legislation and administrative punishment / Matej Horvat.

"The articles collected in the book present a view of legal education in Central and Eastern Europe, considering the relationship between democracy and the Political. In this perspective, legal education is a forum for this articulation and an area for a discursive search for solutions. On the one hand, democracy is a continuous object of research for the legal academia; legal theorists and constitutionalists debate the juridical foundations of modern constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law. On the other hand, as university teachers, legal academics contribute to shaping future lawyer-citizens by instilling in them a certain vision of civic virtues and democratic values"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Losing citizenship
• Denationalisation and its moral justification
• Allegiance, solidarity or retribution?
• International law and denationalisation
• The European Convention on Nationality
• The European Convention on Human Rights
• Denationalisation in the United Kingdom
• Denationalisation in Denmark
• Denationalisation in France
• Denationalisation in the United States of America
• A matter of sovereignty
• Concluding remarks

"Over the past two decades, denationalisation - the controversial practice of revoking citizenship from unwanted citizens - has re-entered Western law and politics with astonishing haste. In this book, Christian Prener traces this remarkable development in the United Kingdom, Denmark and France and offers a timely and critical examination of the legal, moral, and political acceptability of citizenship revocation in response to acts of misconduct or disloyalty. Through an exploration of contemporary practices, caselaw and theory, the book distils some of the hard questions posed by the Western revival of denationalisation within international human rights law, moral philosophy and political theory as it probes the lawfulness, efficacy, and political legitimacy of revoking citizenship in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Italian perspectives on the domestic implementation of international criminal law
• The adoption of domestic laws on international criminal justice : the German code of crimes against international law (völkerstrafgesetzbuch) and the global perspective
• Defining international crimes in the domestic legislation
• Individual criminal responsibility, sanctions and sentencing in the domestic legislation
• Immunities, jurisdiction and prosecutorial discretion.

"This book provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in particular with regard to the implementation of the ICC Statute. It discusses the most recent proposals for reform of the German Code of Crimes under International Law, the "Völkerstrafgesetzbuch", 20 years after its entering into force and introduces the project for an Italian code of international crimes drafted by the Committee of experts established in 2022 by the Ministry of Justice. Following the adoption of the ICC Statute, many States, including Germany with the "Völkerstrafgesetzbuch", introduced specific legislation to incorporate international criminal law into their domestic legal systems and a considerable number of them have been investigating and prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and even aggression ever since. Twenty-five years later, however, the process is not completed as other countries, like Italy, are still working on adopting provisions on international crimes. This book opens with a broad overview of the different approaches of the domestication of international criminal law, with a specific focus on the German and the Italian systems. After an assessment of the prerequisites for the domestic implementation of international criminal law, also from a constitutional law perspective, each chapter offers an in-depth analysis of a specific issue, such as: the definition of international crimes (genocide and crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression); the applicability of and exceptions to the general principles of domestic criminal law; the regulation of individual criminal responsibility; sanctions and sentencing; as well as procedural aspects related to immunities, jurisdiction and prosecutorial discretion. The strong academic perspective of many authors is complemented by an equally strong practitioner perspective of the others, provided by legal scholars in the highest positions in international and national judicial institutions, resulting in a well-informed and critical appraisal of the most recent developments overall in the international criminal justice system"-- Provided by publisher.

• Rechtsarchipel Europa
• Entstehung der Rechtswissenschaft im Mittelalter
• Renaissance des römischen Rechts
• Epoche der Glossatoren und Kommentatoren
• Gelehrte Rechtskultur in Europa
• Juristischer Humanismus in Europa
• Forensische Jurisprudenz in Europa
• Quellen und Lehren des Naturrechts
• Recht in der Aufklärung
• Epoche der Kodifikationen in Europa
• Rechtswissenschaft und Historismus
• Kodifikation des Bürgerlichen Rechts in Deutschland
• Grundlagen des modernen Strafrechts in Deutschland
• Neuere Kodifikationen in Kontinentaleuropa
• England und das Common Law
• Rechtswissenschaft in der europäischen Moderne : Tendenzen.

"Der Autor beschreibt zunächst grundlegende Strukturen, die sich in der Entwicklung des Rechts in Europa herausgebildet haben: das römischkanonische Recht, das in Europa geltende ius commune als Gemeines Recht und das daneben bestehende jeweils nationale Recht und das Lehensrecht. Eingehend werden im Übrigen die Rezeption des römischen Rechts, der juristische Humanismus, das Naturrecht und die Entwicklung nationaler Kodifikationen in Europa beleuchtet. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Rechtsgeschichte Schlossers stellt die Entwicklung der Rechtseinheit in Deutschland dar. Behandelt wird aber auch das Rechtssystem des Common Law in Großbritannien."-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I. National Reports
• The European Investigation Order - National Report Austria / Charlotte Genschel, Lara Schalk-Unger and Nikolina Kulundžija
• European Investigation Order in Croatia - Normative Framework and Practical Challenges / Elizabeta Ivičević Karas, Zoran Burić, Marin Bonačić and Aleksandar Maršavelski
• The European Investigation Order - a German Perspective / Kai Ambos, Peter Rackow and Alexander Heinze
• Abbreviated National Report - Italy / Laura Scomparin, Valeria Ferraris, Andrea Cabiale, Caroline Peloso
• The European Investigation Order in Portugal - Legal Analysis and Practical Dilemmas / Mário Simões Barata, Ana Paula Guimarães and Daniela Serra Castilhos
• Legal Implementation and Practical Application of the EIO Directive in Slovenia / Miha Šepec, Tamara Dugar, Anže Erbežnik and Jan Stajnko
• European Investigation Order - A Comparative Analysis of Practical and Legal Dilemmas / Miha Šepec, Tamara Dugar, and Jan Stajnko
• Part II. Special Topics
• Developments and Adaptations of the Principle of Mutual Recognition - Reflections on the Origins of the European Investigation Order with a View to a Practice-Oriented Understanding of the Mutual Recognition Principle / Kai Ambos and Peter Rackow
• Defend Yourself, by Contesting: Considerations on the Relationship Between the Right of Defence and the Right to Contest in the European Investigation Order / Laura Scomparin and Caroline Peloso
• Interception fo Telecommunications: Strengths and Weaknesses of the European Investigation Order Directive (2014/41/EU) / Caroline Peloso and Oscar Calavita
• Special Part of EU Criminal Law: the Level of Harmonization of the Categories of Offences Listed in Annex D in EU Legislation and Across Selected Member States / Miha Šepec and Lara Schalk-Unger
• The Principle of Proportionality in Directive 2014/41/EU - Challenges of the Present and Opportunities for the Future / Laura Scomparin and Andrea Cabiale
• European Investigation Order, E-Evidence and the Future of Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU / Anže Erbežnik and Marin Bonačić
• Part III. Short Comments
• Comments re Gavanozov I and Gavanozov II / Jan Stajnko, Mário Simões Barata and István Szijártó
• Comments re Parquet de Lübeck / Peter Rackow, Elizabeta Ivičević Karas, Zoran Burić, Marin Bonačić and Aleksandar Maršavelski

• Introduction / Gaëtan Cliquennois
• The right to life : suicide and homicide prevention in prison / Jean-Manuel Larralde and Gaëtan Cliquennois
• The European Court of Human Rights and national penal policies : fostering quantitative and qualitative penal moderation through Articles 3 and 5 ECHR / Sonja Snacken
• The execution of penalties in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights / Simon Creighton
• The rights of prisoners within the CJEU's case law / Leandro Mancano
• Ireland : the weak European supervision of prison policies and its explanations / Mary Rogan and Sophie van der Valk
• Strengths and weaknesses of the judicial protection in Germany / Christine Graebsch
• The conduct of prison reforms : an assessment of the effectiveness of domestic remedies in Italy / Sofia Ciuffoletti and Paulo Pinto de Alburquerque
• "The impact of the European Court of Human Rights on the supervision of conditions of detention by the French courts" / Isabelle Fouchard and Anne Simon
• European monitoring of Belgian prison policy / Gaëtan Cliquennois and Olivia Nederlandt
• The impacts of the European law on prison reforms
• Reform vs. resistance in the Romanian penitentiary system : prison staff perceptions and attitudes regarding their role in reaching the legal goal of detention / Cristina Dâmboeanu, Valentina Pricopie and Alina Thiemann
• The assessment of remedial measures in England and Wales to the proof of the withdrawal : a two-fold test / Rosaria Pirosa
• Systemic effects and dashed expectations : the two tales of prison litigation in Germany / Christine Morgenstern and Mary Rogan

"The Evolving Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Europe explores the development of the framing of penal and prison policies by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), clarifying the European expectations of national authorities, and describing the various models existing in Europe, with a view to analysing their mechanisms and highlighting those that seem the most suitable. A new frame of penal and prison policies in Europe has been progressively established by the ECHR and the Council of Europe (CoE) to protect the rights of detainees in Europe. European countries have reacted very diversely to these policies. This book has several key benefits for readers: · A global and detailed overview of the ECHR jurisprudence on penal and prison policies through an analysis of its development over time. · An analysis of the interactions between the Strasbourg Court and the CoE bodies (Committee of Ministers, Committee for the Prevention of Torture...) and their reinforced framing of domestic penal and prison policies. · A detailed examination of the impacts of the European case law on penal and prison policies within 10 nation states in Europe (including Romania which is currently very under-researched). · A robust engagement with the diverse national reactions to this European case law as a policy strategy. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Law, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Sociology. It will also appeal to civil servants (judges, lawyers, etc.), professionals and policymakers working for the CoE, the European Union, and the United Nations; Ministries of Justice; prison departments; and human rights institutions, as well as activists working for INGOs and NGOs"-- Provided by publisher

• Origin, development and binding nature of the convention
• Overview of the admissibility conditions
• Personal, territorial, temporal and subject-matter jurisdiction (Article 35 3[a] of the convention)
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies (Article 35 1 of the convention)
• Compliance with the time-limit of four months (Article 35 1 of the convention)
• Substantive conditions : manifest ill-foundedness and absence of significant disadvantage (Article 35 3[a] and [b] of the convention)
• The court's organisation
• Proceedings before the court
• Inter-state applications (Article 33 of the convention)
• Judgments of the court
• Principles of the interpretation and application of the substantive guarantees of the convention and its protocols
• Right to life (Article 2 of the convention)
• Prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment (Article 3 of the convention)
• Prohibition of forced labour (Article 4 of the convention)
• Conditions of deprivation of liberty (Article 5 of the convention)
• Guarantees of a fair trial (Article 6 of the convention)
• Applicability and scope of the procedural rights
• Guarantees of a fair trial (Article 6 of the convention)
• Requirements as to the court
• Guarantees of a fair trial (Article 6 of the convention)
• Public nature and length of the proceedings
• Guarantees of a fair trial (Article 6 of the convention)
• Fairness of the proceedings; rights of the defence
• No punishment without law (Article 7 of the convention)
• Preliminary remarks on articles 8 to 11 : justification of interferences according to their respective paragraph
• Right to respect for private and family life, for home and correspondence
• Freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 9 of the convention)
• Freedom of expression (Article 10 of the convention)
• Freedom of assembly and association (Article 11 of the convention)
• Right to marry (Article 12 of the convention)
• Right to an effective remedy (Article 13 of the convention)
• Prohibition of discrimination (Article 14 of the convention)
• Guarantees of the (1st) additional protocol
• Guarantees of the 4th protocol
• Prohibition of the death penalty (6th and 13th protocols)
• Guarantees of the 7th protocol
• General prohibition of discrimination (12th protocol)
• Gualifications of the substantive rights of the convention and its protocols (Article 15-18)
• Conclusions.

"In clear and concise words, this Handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the European Convention and the European Court of Human Rights and its case-law. Numerous cross-references guide the reader through the various topics. Various summaries condense the different principles of the Court's case-law. The Handbook has been written largely for practitioners such as lawyers, judges and persons in administrative functions, but will also be invaluable to university teachers and academic researchers. Meticulously compiled, authoritative and practical, it is a must-have resource for anyone concerned with the protection of human rights in Europe. The author served as a Judge at the Court for nine years, three of them as Section President. He is a retired Professor for International and European Law at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. With a Foreword by Judge Robert Spano, President of the European Court of Human Rights"-- Provided by publisher.

"La mise en œuvre de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme, qui implique une interaction permanente entre les institutions européennes et nationales, peut induire de véritables rapports de force et nuire au dialogue attendu. La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme repousse en permanence les limites de l’interprétation de certains droits, entraînant le mécontentement, parfois la confrontation assumée des États membres. Or, le caractère discrétionnaire des choix dont ils disposent pour trouver les moyens appropriés d’exécution des arrêts, pouvant permettre de concilier leur droit interne avec les obligations conventionnelles, s’avère en pratique limité, le refus d’exécuter un arrêt ou son exécution imparfaite étant considérés comme une violation du texte conventionnel. Une telle situation met en exergue l’inégalité des positions de chacune des parties au dialogue, qui s’est d’ailleurs accentuée ces deux dernières décennies grâce au développement exponentiel de la jurisprudence de la Cour de Strasbourg et au renforcement, en conséquence, de son autorité."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : Identities, the jurisprudence of particularism and possible constitutional challenges / Kriszta Kovács
• The exploitation of constitutional identity / Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
• Identity and eternity : the German concept of constitutional identity
• From minimalism to the substantive core and back : the Slovak Constitutional Court and (the lack of) constitutional identity / Katarína Šipulová and Max Steuer
• Instruments and elements of particularism in the context of constitutional identity : the Czech Constitutional Court / Miluše Kindlová
• Constitutional identity in Poland : transplanted and abused / Michał Ziółkowski
• Reconceptualising constitutional identity : the Case of Hungary / Kriszta Kovács
• Un-european identity claims : on the relationship between constituent power, constitutional identity and its implications for interpreting Article 4(2) TEU / Mattias Kumm
• Constitutionalism today : the prospects of the European constitutional community / Susanne Baer, Kriszta Kovács and Maya Vogel.

"This open access book asks whether there is space for particularism in a constitutional democracy which would limit the implementation of EU law. National identity claims are a key factor in shaping our times and the ongoing evolution of the European Union. To assess their impact this collection focuses on the jurisprudence of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, as they play an essential role in giving life to particularism. By taking particularism as the prism through which they explore the question, the contributors offer a new analytical scheme to evaluate the judicial invocation of identity. This requires an interdisciplinary approach: the study draws on comparative constitutional law, theory, comparative-empirical material and normative-philosophical perspectives. This is a fresh and thought-provoking new study on an increasingly important question in EU law"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction to Legal Professional Privilege in EU Competition Investigations
• The notion of LPP in EU competition investigations
• History of LPP
• Relevant case law of the EU Courts in relation to LPP in EU competition investigations
• Relevant EU legislation and soft law acts in relation to LPP in EU competition investigations
• LPP in European Commission’s investigations
• The current conditions for LPP protection in EU competition investigations
• LPP in the context of EU merger control
• LPP in competition investigations in the EFTA countries
• LPP in competition investigations in the EU Member States
• LPP in jurisdictions other than the EU
• Conclusion.

"Setting out the current rules on legal professional privilege (LPP), with specific attention to their relevance in EU competition investigations, this comprehensive book analyses the practice of LPP by the European Commission and its interpretations in the European Courts. It also compares this to practice in the EU Member States, as well as other jurisdictions including Japan, the UK, and the US. Key Features: - An overview of the history of LPP - Discussions on the practice of LPP in the EU and globally - Commentary on the relevant case law of the EU courts in relation to LPP in EU competition investigations - Analysis of LPP in competition investigations in the EFTA countries, EU Member States, and other jurisdictions. This book will be an essential resource for competition practitioners - both private practitioners and in-house counsel - as well as officials at the Commission and at the competition authorities and enforcement agencies"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Libri feudorum in modern historiography
• The formation of the Libri feudorum and its context
• The afterlife of the Libri feudorum
• Notes to translation
• Libri feudorum, compilatio vulgata : book 1
• Libri feudorum, compilatio vulgata : book 2
• Appendix 1: Capitula extraordinaria iacobi de ardizone
• Appendix 2: Capitula extraordinaria baraterii
• Appendix 3: Edictum de beneficiis Regni Italici
• Appendix 4: Synoptic table

"The Libri Feudorum (the 'books of fiefs') are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping modern ideas of feudalism has aroused an intense debate among medievalists, leading to deep re-thinking of the 'feudal' vocabulary and categories. This book offers an up-to-date English translation with a working Latin text introduced by a historical and historiographical overview of the Libri, thereby providing a valuable tool to understanding the long-standing importance of this collection over nine centuries of European history"-- Provided by publisher

• Einführung in die Thematik
• Römisches Recht
• Von den römischen Quellen zum BGB – die weitere Behandlung des Motivirrtums bei den Testamenten
• Die vorzugswürdige Lösung
• Ergebnisse.

"While in German law only last wills are voidable for mistake, French and Austrian law provide for the voidability of donations as well. Luca Wimmer traces the origin of these provisions in Roman law and in the philosophy of Aristoteles and Thomas Aquinas before subjecting modern German law to a critical review based on his historical and comparative findings"-- Provided by publisher.

"Alors que les législateurs successifs œuvrent depuis quelques années déjà au renforcement des garanties d'indépendance des magistrats dans l'intérêt de tous, y compris et surtout dans l'intérêt du justiciable, le sentiment de défiance à l'égard de l'institution judiciaire ne cesse de croître, fragilisant ainsi le lien de confiance des citoyens à l'égard de la Justice.0Dans ce contexte de suspicion particulièrement à l'égard des membres du Ministère public, ces derniers étant placés sous l'autorité hiérarchique du ministre de la Justice, la question lancinante de l'indépendance des magistrats du Parquet est posée.0Pour en saisir tous les enjeux, l'approche retenue a pour ambition de croiser les regards de spécialistes ? universitaires et professionnels ? en vue d'une réflexion globale et complète portant sur les problématiques liées à l'exercice des multiples activités des membres du Parquet.0Dès lors, cet ouvrage consacré au Parquet du XXle siècle vise à s'interroger sur le et les pouvoirs ainsi que sur les missions des magistrats du Parquet, sur l'évolution de leur statut tout en envisageant, au plan national comme au plan supranational, les perspectives d'évolution de cette profession"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Assumptions, explanations, standpoint
• (Demo)liberal constitutionalism : genealogy and hegemony
• The crisis of (demo)liberal constitutionalism
• The Pandemic as a Derridean specter
• The reaction and possible future developments
• Conclusion.

"This book addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism. Right-wing populism and the illiberal constitutionalism of Central and Eastern Europe has challenged both the dominant views of legal scholars and those elements of the legal mainstream that appeared to be firmly entrenched and resistant to change. But, as this book demonstrates, in practical terms, the anti-liberal right has made use of critical methods that were originally conceived as tools for use in emancipatory and left-wing action, absorbing and utilizing a great many of the ideas associated with critical jurisprudential thought. In short, this book maintains, conservative illiberalism has taken over the role that postmodernism could have played: the role of a 'jester discourse' relativizing the certainties and finality of liberal democracy. As the book argues, however what this connection reveals is the necessity of a legal and political response that does not simply, and hysterically, reaffirm the former liberal hegemony. Rather, drawing on Foucault and post-Marxism, it articulates a concept of agonistic democracy that aims to shift the center of gravity in constitutional discourse away from any naïve liberal faith in the nonpolitical. This book will appeal to constitutional lawyers, as well as to legal and political theorists with interests in contemporary populism and liberal thought"-- Provided by publisher.