Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
Description
Contribution to panel 'Democracy and rule of law in crisis' Abstract: In this paper I examine the handling of two recent (or ongoing) crises, the Dutch pandemic response and the EU response to the rule of law crisis. My purpose is to understand how the rule of law is approached in these situations. I advance the argument is that in both crises the response relies on a formal and technocratic idea of legality as the core of the rule of law. The problem is that such a formal rule of law idea becomes instrumentalized and does not serve the underlying purpose of curbing arbitrary exercise of power. I examine how we can go beyond such a superficial adherence to the rule of law.