Verfassungsblog (May 2024)

On Rebuilding and … Keeping the Rule of Law

  • Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.59704/02ca135ac90af5f6
Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

Abstract

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When I think about the challenge of rebuilding the rule of law in Poland after years filled with unimaginably lawless legal and factual acts and hateful words tearing the Polish Constitution to shreds and offering adequate recipes, the starting point is framing the discussion. A correct description of the starting point determines the route and provides the background against which one can evaluate more detailed legislative choices made along the way. The route must be determined by “fidelity to the Constitution”. Finally, our avowed destination must be framed in clear terms as restoring the meaning and respect to the basic elements of the Polish legal order. I argue that the latter must become the new narrative of lawyers, politicians and citizens alike if we are to succeed.

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