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PETRA BÁRD 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. +16 +
