Illiberal News

Publications

2027

Bojanovska Popovska, Dorjana: Religion, State and Constitution. The Limits of Constitutional Secularism, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2027 (forthcoming).

Trajanovski, Naum / Szumski, Jakub (eds.): Prawo, władza, pluralizmy. Myśląc ze Stanisławem Ehrlichem [Law, Power, Pluralisms. Revisiting Stanisław Ehrlich]. Warsaw: Scholar, 2027 (forthcoming).

Trajanovski, Naum: Pluralism in Non-Democracies: Stanisław Ehrlich, Najdan Pašić and the Interest Groups Theory Between the Global West and East in the 1960, in: Socialist Technocracy in a Global Context: Governance, Development, and Knowledge, ed. by Ivan Sablin and Tjaša Konovšek. Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana (forthcoming).

Bucholc, Marta/ Trajanovski, Naum: East Central Europe, in: Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Law, edited by C. Boulanger, P. Guibentif and U. Schultz. Elgar, 2027 (forthcoming).

2026

Rigoll, Dominik: Die Deutschen nationalistischer machen, in: Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Nr. 145, 26. Juni 2026, S. 11.

UItz, Renata: Van az a pénz: Magyarország rögös visszaútja Európába [There is such money: Hungary’s Rough Return to Europe], editorial, Magyar Narancs, April 22, 2026.

Uitz, Renata/ Amparo,Thiago: Hungria encerra era Orbán entre desafio da mudança e risco de revanche [Hungary ends the Orbán era between the challenge of change and the risk of revenge] editorial, Folha de Sao Paolo, April 12, 2026

Uitz, Renata: Recalibrating Human Rights in Europe: A Call to Awaken the Principle of Non-Retrogression, in: The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, Band 7 (2026), Isszúe 1-2 (Jun 2026): Special Issue: The European Court of Human Rights Versus Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices; Edited by Andreas Follesdal, Jan Petrov, and Alain Zysset.

Uitz, Renata: Halkan belelépett: Trump Béketanácsa és Magyarország szuverenitása [Stepped into it softly: Trump’s Board of Peace and Hungary’s Sovereignty], editorial, Magyar Narancs, January 28, 2026.

2025

Szumski, Jakub/von Puttkamer, Joachim /Wilkinson, Michael (eds.): Authoritarian Encounters with Constitutional Liberalism in Interwar Europe, Special Issue in: European Law Open, Volume 4, issue 4, December 2025, Cambridge UP.

Uitz, Renata: A Bolsonaro-végjáték: Hogyan és miért ítélték el a volt brazil elnököt, és mi következik mindebből? [The Bolsonaro end game: How and what was the Brazilian president convicted, and what follows from it?], editorial, Magyar Narancs, October 8, 2025.

Bojanovska Popovska, Dorjana: If Not a Religion, Then What? Potential State Responses to the Conundrum of Artificial Intelligence as Religion, in: The Review of Faith & International Affairs 23 (3), 2025, 34-47.

Uitz, Renata: A Threat to the Core, Why the New Hungarian Transparency Bill is an Attack on the Foundations of the European Union, Verfassungsblog, May 21, 2025.

Uitz, Renata: The 15th Amendment of the Hungarian Fundamental Law: Advancing Illiberal Christian Democracy, Constitutionnet, May 2, 2025.

Bucholc, Marta/ Trajanovski, Naum: Marxism and Post-Marxism in East Central and South East European Theory, in: Theory Reimagined: Voices of Sociologists from Around the World, edited by R. Roy, A. Narayan, M. Heath and B. Purkayastha. Frontpage Publications, London, 2025, 162-181.

Uitz, Renata: Szintet lépett a NER az Alaptörvény módosítással [With amending the Fundamental law, the System of National Cooperation entered a new level], editorial, Magyar Narancs, April 14, 2025.

Uitz, Renata: How Hungary’s Pride Ban Tests the EU’s Commitment to Democracy, Verfassungsblog, April 2, 2025.

Szumski, Jakub/Stambulski, Michał: Legal Doctrine and Liberal Pedagogy. The Concept of ‘Transition’ and Polish Lawyers, in: European Perspectives on Transition: A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept, edited by Pablo Sánchez León and Agustín Cosovschi. Berghahn Books, 2025.

Uitz, Renata: A fundamentalizmus és az önkény rendje: Az Alaptörvény 15. módosításáról [The order of fundamentalism and tyranny: On the 15th Amendment of the Fundamental Law], editorial, Magyar Narancs, March 19, 2025.

2024

Kopeček, Michal: The Liberal and Illiberal Politics of Rights in East Central Europe, in: IWM post No. 133, Spring/Summer 2024, p.6.

Uitz, Renate: Preface for A lei da bala, do boi e da Bíblia [The Law of the Bullet, the Bible, and the Beef: Democratic Culture in Crisis Amid Disputes over Rights] by Adriane Sanctis de Brito, Luciana Silva Reis, Ana Silva Rosa e Mariana Celano de Souza Amaral (Tinta de China, 2024).

Szumski, Jakub: Decentring Marxism: The Poznań School and Socialist International Law in Eastern Europe after 1945, in: Socialism and International Law, edited by Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, 91–114. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Uitz, Renata: Kicsit mégis inkább zsarnokság: Mire lesz jó a Szuverenitásvédelmi Hivatal, és mire nem? [A little bit of tyranny: What will and what will not be the Sovereignty Protection Office be good for?], editorial, Magyar Narancs, December 19, 2023.

Uitz, Renata: Orbán’s Veto Play – The Subsidiarity Card, Verfassungsblog, December 15, 2023.

Trajanovski, Naum: The “Skopje 2014 project” at its Tenth Anniversary: A Story of Resilience, in: Cultures of History Forum (20.06.2024), DOI: 10.25626/0149.

Uitz, Renata: A nagy visszatérés: Mit tartogat 2023 az alkotmányos demokrácia hívei számára? [The great return: What does 2023 have in store for the supporters of constitutional democracy?], editorial, Magyar Narancs, January 4, 2023.

2022

Richardson-Little, Ned/Merrill, Samuel/Arlaud, Leah: Far-right anniversary politics and social media: The Alternative for Germany’s contestation of the East German past on Twitter, in: Memory Studies, Vol. 15, Issue 6, November 30, 2022.

Bojanovska Popovska, Dorjana: Snap Elections in Illiberal Democracies: Confirming Trust or Establishing Hegemony? The Case of North Macedonia, in: Constitutional Studies 8, Issue 1, 2022, 111-131.

Uitz, Renata: Hogy jobban fájjon: A szívhangrendeletről [So that it hurts more: On the (fetal) heart beat regulation], editorial, Magyar Narancs, September 28, 2022.

Uitz, Renata: Illiberals of the World Unite in Budapest – Yet Again, Verfassungsblog, May 26, 2022.

Uitz, Renata: From Shrinking to Closing Civil Society Space in Hungary, Verfassungsblog, April 10, 2022.

Uitz, Renata: Hungary’s 2022 elections: Prospects for political and constitutional change ,Constitutionnet, February 28, 2022.

Uitz, Renata: A szelíd forradalom: A társadalmiasított alkotmányozás kísértése [Gentle revolution: The ghost of participatory constitution making], Editorial, Magyar Narancs, January 19, 2022.

2021

Uitz, Renata: On Constitutional Transition out of Hybrid Regimes [blog post], Verfassungsblog, December 15, 2021.

Uitz, Renata: Oblique Strategies: Rumors of a Constitutional Coup in Hungary [blog post], Verfassungsblog, June 29, 2021.