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The APOD Solution
Published 2024The two light and video installations, ‘The APOD Solution’ and ‘In the Palm of our Hands’, developed from my criminal law and criminological research into crimes in motel rooms (McKay 2022, forthcoming 2026). In 2024, I ...Open AccessVisual art -
Institutional Populism, Courts, and the European Union
Published 2022In this chapter, I will discuss: (a) the nature of populism, in terms of its institutional v discursive character; (b) the position of courts (especially, constitutional courts) under populism; and (c) the role of the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Judicial Review versus Populist Authoritarianism
Published 2024The arricle reviews several strategies available to the judiciary to counter the emergenve of populist authoritarianism. Populist authoritarianism is a common form of democratic backsliding these days. Can courts do ...Open AccessArticle -
Constitutions: Breaches, Abuses and Literal Democracy
Published 2022This is Chapter 3 of Wojciech Sadurski's book "A Pandemic of Populists". It shows how modern authoritarian populists misuse and abuse their countries' constitutions, by breaching them, and by disregarding unwritten ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Polish Constitutional Tribunal Under PiS: From an Activist Court to a Paralysed Tribunal, to a Governmental Enabler
Published 2019After the electoral victories of 2015, PiS transformed the CT from an effective, counter-majoritarian device to scrutinise laws for their unconstitutional ity, into a powerless institution paralysed by consecutive bills ...Open AccessArticle