The Peoples Constitution: The Populist Transformation of Constitutional Law?

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Akritas Kaidatzis is an Associate professor at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He teaches Constitutional Law and Constitutional History since 2011. His main research interests are the interplay between law and politics the judicial review of legislation the relationship between courts and politics populism and constitutionalism and the history of Greek constitutional law. He has been the principal investigator of the research project Populist Constitutionalism (PopCon) (www.popcon.gr) and the author of Progressive populism and democratic constitutionalism Revus 47/2022 (doi.org/10.4000/revus.8068) and Populist Constitutionalism in Research Handbook on Populism (Y. Stavrakakis & G. Katsambekis eds) Edward Elgar (2024).   Eleni Kalampakou holds a PhD from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She serves at the Greek public sector. She has published papers on multiculturalism the relationship between law and religion and refugee law. She has participated in research projects on migration hate speech and populist constitutionalism (PopCon project). Ifigeneia Kamtsidou is a Professor at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She teaches Constitutional law and is the director of the postgraduate programs Droit social européen et comparé and Public Law and Political Science. She holds a PhD from the University of Paris X-Nanterre. She was President of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (2015-2019) member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (2019-2023) and of the National Commission for Human Rights (2015-2022). She has published studies on the organization of the political regime on fundamental rights theory of constitutional law and populism and constitutionalism (PopCon project).  Christos Papastylianos is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the University of Nicosia Cyprus. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and a Master on Public Law and Political Science from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests and his teaching lie in the fields of comparative constitutional theory and law human rights law Constitutional History and Immigration Law. He has participated in various research projects (EU COST Populism and Constitutionalism (PopCon). etc.) and he is the author of books and articles published among others in Religions Cyprus Review and ICL Journal. Costas Stratilatis is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the University of Nicosia Cyprus. He holds a PhD from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master on Political Theory from LSE. His research interests and his teaching lie in the fields of comparative constitutional theory and law human rights law (especially freedom of expression) political theory and jurisprudence. He has participated in various research projects (EU COST Media Pluralism Monitor PopCon etc.) and he is the author of books and articles published among others in European Constitutional Law Review History of Political Thought Law & Critique and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law.