Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Proposals for books are invited for the series Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe.

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.

Series editors

• Gábor Halmai, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Political and International Studies, ELTE, Budapest
• Barbara Havelková, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
• Julian Scholtes, Lecturer in Public Law, School of Law, University of Glasgow
• Anna Śledzińska-Simon, Professor, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of Wroclaw
• Max Steuer, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and Principal Investigator, Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava

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