Defenceless Formalists: on Abuse of Law and the Weakness of the Polish Judiciary Matczak, Marcin Author aut Text xx# 2017 Verfassungsblog 2017-08-24 eng
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 Poland’s constitutional crisis is caused by the power of those who attack the rule of law, but also by the weakness of those who defend it. This weakness derives from courts taking a traditional formalist approach, excluding purposive and functional argumentation and leaving themselves prone to attack by the abuse of power through the other branches of government. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Matczak, Marcin Formalism Judiciary Polish Constitutional Tribunal Rule of Law 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/defenceless-formalists-on-abuse-of-law-and-the-weakness-of-the-polish-judiciary/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20170824-102331 170824 10.17176/20170824-102331 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)