nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/838fa671ded0d323 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250103s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/838fa671ded0d323 doi eng 342 23 Halmai, Gábor Author aut Can the Rule of Law Be Restored by Violating Its Principles? - The Current Polish Debate Halmai, Gábor Verfassungsblog 2025-01-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier This post concerns one of the crucial problems of transitional constitutionalism after a period of democratic and rule of law backsliding: how to restore the principle of the rule of law? Are there circumstances when, during this restoration, the principles of the rule of law are allowed to be violated? For instance, when the violation of the rule of law was an important tool to exercise arbitrary power, as was the case before the 1989-1990 East-Central European democratic transitions? CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism Constitutional restoration PiS Rule of Law Venice Commission Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/can-the-rule-of-law-be-restored-by-violating-its-principles/ raw object