Part I: Understanding the Development in EU Member States: Not on Bread Alone Doth Man Liveth (Deut. 8:3; Mat 4:4) - Some Iconoclastic Views on Populism, Democracy, the Rule of Law and the Polish Circumstance by Joseph HH Weiler.- Constitutional Crisis in Poland 2015-2016 in the Light of the Rule of Law Principle by Marcin Wiącek.- Hungary's Latest Experiences with Article 2 TEU: The Need for 'Informed' EU Sanctions by Be ta Bak .- Part II: European Action: Towards a Tyranny of Values? Principles on Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States by Armin von Bogdandy.- The Rule of Law as a Value in the Sense of Article 2 TEU: What Does it Mean and Imply? by Werner Schroeder.- Article 7: A Commentary on a Much Talked-About 'Dead' Provision by Dimitry Kochenov.- The Responsibility of Courts in Maintaining the Rule of Law: Two tales of consequential judicial self- restraint by P l Sonnevend.- Suspending Horizontal Solange: A Decentralized Instrument for Protecting Mutual Trust and the European Rule of Law by Iris Canor.- Ascertaining the 'Guarantee of Guarantees'. Recent Developments Regarding the Infringement Procedure in the EU's Rule of Law Crisis by Matthias Schmidt and Piotr Bogdanowicz.- Defending Union Values in Judicial Proceedings. On How to Turn Article 2 TEU Into a Judicially Applicable Provision by Luke Dimitrios Spieker.- Suspension of EU Funds Paid to Member States Breaching the Rule of Law - Is the Commission's Proposal Legal? by Justyna Lacny.- The Rule of Law Framework in the European Union: Its Rationale, Origins, Role and International Ramifications by Artur Nowak-Far.- The Rule of Law and the Roll of the Dice. The Uncertain Future of Investor-State Arbitration in the EU by Wojciech Sadowski.- Sounding the Alarm: The Council of Europe as the Guardian of the Rule of Law in Contemporary Europe by J rg Polakiewicz and Julia Katharina Kirchmayr.- Part III: Dissecting CJEU's Jurisprudence: A Potential Constitutional Moment for the European Rule of Law - The Importance of Red Lines by Armin von Bogdandy, Piotr Bogdanowicz, Iris Canor, Giacomo Rugge, Matthias Schmidt and Maciej Taborowski.- The Assessment of Judicial Independence Following the CJEU Ruling in C-216/18 LM by Stanislaw Biernat and Pawel Filipek.- The Rule of Law, Fair Trial and Human Dignity: the Protection of EU Values after LM by Catherine Dupr .- Drawing Red Lines With No (Significant) Bites - Why An Individual Test Is Not Appropriate in the LM Case by Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska.- Intermezzo in the Rule of Law Play: The Court of Justice's LM Case by Matteo Bonelli.

Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States - pocket, Engelsk, 2022