Constitutionalism under Stress

Dr. Uladzislau Belavusau is Senior Researcher in European Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Previously he was Assistant Professor of EU law and human rights at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the Principal Investigator for the Netherlands in the EU-sponsored MELA (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspectives) research consortium, author of Freedom of Speech: Importing European and US Constitutional Models in Transitional Democracies (Routledge 2013), as well as co-editor of Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (Cambridge University Press 2017) and EU Anti-Discrimination Law Beyond Gender (Hart 2018).Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her policy and legal expertise include the fields of anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, freedom of speech and memory laws. Since September 2016, she has been a Principal Investigator for Poland in the MELA (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspectives), EU-sponsored research consortium. In 2015 she became an expert of the Council of Europe in Help in the 28 Project and also joined the Academic Advisory Board of the Community of Democracies. Since January 2018 she has acted as a member of Advisory Board of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.

Wojciech Sadurski is like Czesław Miłosz for a whole generation of young and aspiring constitutional and human rights scholars. Looking at Poland from some distance, he shares his philosophical, provocative, intriguing, and passionate thoughts and comments. In this remarkable, in-depth collection, Sadurski's scholarship and engagement in public matters are proven to be the true expression of patriotism and devotion to constitutional and liberal democracy. He is, for sure, changing the course of the 'avalanche'.