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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arkadiusz Radwan

Dr. habil. Arkadiusz Radwan is President of the Kraków-based ALLERHAND INSTITUTE for Advanced Legal Studies, Attorney-at-Law (adwokat), of counsel at Kubas Kos Gakowski

POSTS BY Arkadiusz Radwan

17 August 2016

Arkadiusz Radwan, Hans-Bernd Schaefer

Jein – eine fehlende Variante bei dem Brexit-Referendum

Großbritannien hat eine Schicksalsentscheidung getroffen. Zwar hat die Volksbefragung nach herrschender Meinung nur beratenden Charakter, doch hat die britische Regierung im Vorfeld ankündigte das Ergebnis zu befolgen und wird es daher kaum übergehen. „Brexit means Brexit“, sagte auch Theresa May, die neue britische Premierministerin und frühere Remain-Befürworterin. Was „Brexit“ bedeutet, bleibt aber unklar. Continue reading >>

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23 December 2015

Arkadiusz Radwan

Chess-boxing around the Rule of Law: Polish Constitutionalism at Trial

In the conflict between the Polish government and the constitutional court, we are watching a sort of chess-boxing, a hybrid game consisting of rounds in chess and boxing, where the parties attempt to outsmart the opponent and if this doesn’t help, they simply punch. Contravention of the division of powers and disregard for the idea of limited government has repeatedly been perpetrated by the ruling party Law & Justice and “their” President Duda. It remains to be seen if the attempts made are understood by the perpetrators as a tool to facilitate party’s short-term objectives or as an ultimate goal to redesign Poland’s institutional order. Continue reading >>

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