ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rick Lawson

Rick Lawson holds the Chair of European Human Rights Law at the University of Leiden. He was dean of Leiden Law School 2011-2016. Currently he is director of the Advanced LLM programme in European and International Human Rights Law.

POSTS BY Rick Lawson

18 Juni 2021

Rick Lawson

“Non-Existent”

Last Tuesday, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal delivered a ruling which makes the extent of the crisis of the rule of law in Poland unambiguously clear. And it shows how the gap with Europe is widening day by day. If the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe lets this pass, it will not only be a blow to the authority and effectiveness of the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights. Then the guardians of the rule of law will have surrendered even faster than we thought. Continue reading >>

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