Public law in a troubled era: a tribute to Professor Patrick Birkinshaw

In: European monographs series set volume 115

Abstract

Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Editor -- Contributors -- Summary of Contents -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Patrick Birkinshaw: His Work -- Introduction -- Part I Law in a World Turned Upside-Down -- Chapter 1 Reflections on the Post-Brexit Constitution -- 1 A 'Contestatory' Conception of the Constitution -- 2 The Constitution and Plebiscitary Democracy -- 3 The Illegitimacy of Independent Institutions -- 4 The Future -- Chapter 2 The Rebirth of Parliamentary Sovereignty -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sovereignty's Revision -- 3 Sovereignty's Rebirth -- 3.1 Miller I -- 3.2 Scottish Continuity Bill -- 3.3 Re Allister -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Through the Looking Glass: The Subversion of Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hungary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Hungary: The Surprisingly Short Road from Post-Communism to Post-democracy -- 3 The Language of Constitutionalism in Orbán's Hungary -- 3.1 Democracy -- 3.2 Christian Culture -- 4 Believing Impossible Things -- 4.1 Believing Impossible Things: The Demonisation of George Soros -- 5 Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Is There a Concept of Law of Exception in France? Some Reflections on the Legal Issues Raised by the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 1 'Law of Exception': The Concept in French Scholarship -- 2 Law of Exception and French Law: Historical Evolution -- 3 From the Constitution of 1791 to the Second Republic -- 4 From the Second Empire to the Fourth Republic -- 5 The Fifth Republic -- 6 The Positive Law on Exceptional Circumstances or Crises at the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 7 The Ordinary Law of Exceptional Circumstances -- 8 The Law of 3 April 1955 on the State of Emergency -- 9 Case Law: The Theory of Exceptional Circumstances -- 10 The Law of 23 March 2020 Urgently to Address the COVID-19 Epidemic.