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underlining the vagueness in principle when trying to define what human beings
are, can have, according to the Author, positive conseguences for politics. Ferenc
Irk addresses the uncomfortable tension between the exploitation of labor and
European values. Wilma Moraa Isaboke in her essay discusses education as a
human security issue and advocates for girls" education. Csilla Lehoczky-Kollonay
brings in another aspect of labor law in her writing on the broadening concept of
dignity at the workplace, and the role of the state in bridging the public-private
divide in ensuring labor rights. Eszter Polgári revisited the European consensus
under the ECHR in light of the Vienna rules on treaty interpretation. András Sajó
in his essay with the telling title Reflections on the Construction of Speech Norms
in the Kardashians" Republic describes a transformation of the concept of harm
and its impact on the generation of new social and even legal speech standards,
narrowing the idea of permissible and protected speech. Judit Sändor’s paper is
particularly topical with mRNA-based vaccines in most of the readers’ arms. But
the technical possibility of curing diseases via genome editing, she argues, also
makes science and society, inventors of emerging biotechnologies and human
rights lawyers more dependent on each other than ever.
The English and German language volume closes with a chapter on the rule of law,
constitutional democracy, or their erosion respectively. Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga
discusses the 2018 constitutional referendum in Ecuador and the Transitory
Council of Citizen’s participation and social control. Gabor Halmai illuminates the
impact of the spread of ‘illiberal democracy’ in Europe on the status quo of human
dignity in times of crises. Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov provides a concise tour
d'horizon of EU law development in the field of the rule of law over the last years,
which have significantly reinforced the powers of the supranational institutions
in domains, which have previously never been considered part of supranational
competence. Raimo Lahti revisits the Finnish approach to the rule of law, in the
broader European context. Andrea Pet6 in her chapter on the Simulacrum of
progressive politics puts an emphasis on social democracy in Hungary. She argues
that the concept of “fear” is a useful mobilizational force together with historical
analogies based on analyzing the gendered history of the Hungarian progressive
tradition. Finally, Istvan Stumpf closes the volume with his paper on the role of the
Constitutional Court in the constitutional control of legislation.
As the editor of this volume, I am grateful to the authors for their valuable
contributions, to Viktor Zoltán Kazai and Veronika Szontagh for their careful
editing, to Petra Lea Láncos for translating the retrospective interview, to Bence
Juhász and Erik Uszkiewicz for their for his research assistance and to the CEU
Department of Legal Studies for contributing to the volume.
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