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PETRA BÁRD In 1998, he participated in the Rome Diplomatic Conference, which resulted in the adoption of the Rome Statute and then in New York in the codification of the ICC rules of procedure and evidence. He assisted several countries in preparing the constitutional and legislative steps necessary for the ratification of the Rome Statute. Attempts at the processing of the past appear in the Zétényi-Takacs draft bill on delivering historic justice, as well as his writings on the ‘firing squad law’, his scholarly work on retroactivity and more recently, his articles published in the quarterly Muült es Jövö (Past and Future). The final major topic of the foreign language volume is rule oflaw. As a longstanding external expert ofthe OSCE, Käroly Bärd was recently consulted on the Polish judicial ‘reform’. The subject of his two expert opinions: the restructuring ofthe Polish Supreme Court and the Disciplinary Council have since come before the Court of Justice of the EU.!! He also contributed to several judicial reforms abroad, such as the restructuring of the judiciary in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Italy and Tunisia. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST VOLUME Both the Hungarian and foreign language volumes open with a retrospective interview by Viktor Zoltan Kazai. The Hungarian-language volume then begins with the greeting of the reader by Tibor Kiraly, followed by two writings authored in a more personal tone by two esteemed members of the academic community who had followed the career of Károly Bárd from the very beginning: László Kéri and István Kukorelli. Next, we organized the studies into three main parts. Ihe chapter on legal theory, criminal policy and legal history comprises writings of legal scholars and criminology professors discussing fundamental and comprehensive topics. Balázs Gellér shares his thoughts on Nietzsche, power, the state and the merits and pitfalls of democracy. Katalin Gönczöl examines a marked, global phenomenon: the criminal populism of late modernity, emerging as a political response to universal economic and social changes. Departing from rational choice theory, in his ruminations on legal philosophy and criminology, László Korinek tackles circumstances promoting crime. In his piece entitled “Confinement and captivity” Barna Mezey explores terminological elements of Hungarian criminal law development. Finally, Tibor Várady in his essay on “Law and Heat”, discusses 1 CJ, C-619/18 Commission v Poland (Independence of the Supreme Court), 24 June 2019, ECLI:EU:C:2019:531; C-791/19 Commission v Poland (Régime disciplinaire des juges), 8 April 2020, ECLI:EU:C:2020:277. s ]2 e
