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Mattias Kumm's research focuses on the theory and practice of constitutionalism and human rights on the national, European and global levels. How should we think of the basic institutions and categories of existing law and how should they be progressively developed, if we take seriously the widely embraced idea that any claim to legitimate authority must be based on the rule of law, democracy and human rights? Conversely, which concepts, doctrines and institutional practices effectively fall short in light of the principles they claim to reflect? One of his current projects is to analyze constitutionalism theoretically and historically as a revolutionary, transformative, and militant practice, to help better understand contemporary challenges and reflect on possible responses to these challenges.

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Science Friction: Patterns, Causes and Effects of Academic Freedom Contestations

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Liberal Order, Legitimate Authority and Disagreement: On the limits of legitimate disagreement (LOLAD)

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Mattias Kumm

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Keynote in Israel: Mattias Kumm on Authoritarian Populism as a Challenge to Judicial Review of Rights

Selected Publications

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The Jurisprudence of Particularism National Identity Claims in Central Europe by Kriszta Kovács

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Kriszta Kovács has published the edited volume "The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe". It features sections by Kriszta Kovács "Reconceptualising Constitutional Identity: The Case of Hungary", as well as by Mattias Kumm "Un-European Identity Claims: On the Relationship between Constituent Power, Constitutional Identity and its Implications for Interpreting Article 4(2) TEU"

It is published open access by Bloomsbury.

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Buchcover des Buches Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe

Edited Volume

Kriszta Kovács' and Boldizsár Nagy's book section "In the Hands of a Populist Authoritarian - The Agony of the Hungarian Asylum System and the Possible Ways of Recovery" has been published in "Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe" (Cambridge) edited by Vladislava Stoyanova and Stijn Smet.

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Buchcover des Buches - Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited Volume

Kriszta Kovács' book section "The COVID-19 Pandemic - A Pretext for Expanding Power in Hungary" has been published in "Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic" (Routledge) edited by Joelle Grogan and Alice Donaldon.

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Book cover. The background is a mixture of differently coloured circles. Title: Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice How Constitutions and Constitutional Courts Deal with Past Atrocity. Edited By Cheng-Yi Huang. Published by Routledge

Edited Volume

Kriszta Kovács' book section "Facing the Shadows of the Past during Transitions" appeared in "Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice " (Routledge) edited by Cheng-Yi Huang.

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Cover Gosewinkel Struggles for Belonging

Dieter Gosewinkel's "Struggles for Beloning: Citizenship in Europe, 1900-2020" has been published by Oxford University Press.

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Cover Public Reason and Courts

Edited Volume

"Public Reason and Courts" edited by Mattias Kumm, Silje Langvatn and Wojciech Sadurski has been published by Cambridge University Press.

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Edited Volume

"Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives" edited by Mattias Kumm, Takao Suami, Anne Peters and Dimitri Vanoverbeke has been published by Cambridge University Press.

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Handbook

Check out Dieter Gosewinkel's article on "The Constitutional State" in "The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History" (OUP).

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Cover Human Rights: Moral or Political?

Edited Volume

Mattias Kumm's "The Turn to Justification: On the Structure and Domain of Human Rights Practice" has been published in "Human Rights: Moral or Political?" (OUP) edited by Adam Etinson.

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Cover Antiliberal Europe

Edited Volume

"Anti-liberal Europe: Neglected Story of Europeanization" edited by Dieter Gosewinkel has been published by Berghahn Books. 

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Cover Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond

Edited Volume

Kriszta Kovács's "Changing Constitutional Identity via Amendment" appears in "Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond" (Routledge) edited by Paul Blokker.

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Cover Naulila

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Jakob Zollmann's "Naulila 1914. World War I in Angola and International Law" has been published by Nomos.