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2021 Volume 17 Issue 2 2021 Volume 17 Issue 2 Contents Articles Anthoula Malkopoulou – Greece: A Procedural Defence of Democracy against the Golden Dawn – 177 Conor Casey and Eoin Daly – Political Constitutionalism under a Culture of Legalism: Case Studies from Ireland – 202 Jeremy B. Bierbach – The ‘Person of Northern Ireland’: A Vestigial Form of EU Citizenship? – 232 Tim Wolff – True Believers? – Sincerity and Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights – 259 Nuno Garoupa, Marian Gili and Fernando Gómez Pomar – Mixed Judicial Selection and 2021 Volume 17 Issue 2 Constitutional Review: Evidence from Spain – 287 Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou – Balancing Competences? Proportionality as an Instrument to Regulate the Exercise of Competences after the PSPP Judgment of the Contributions by Bundesverfassungsgericht – 314 Tim Wolff, Susanne K. Schmidt, Niels Petersen & Konstantin Chatziathanasiou, Anthoula Malkopoulou, Nuno Garoupa & Marian Gili & Fernando Gómez Pomar, Case Note Conor Casey & Eoin Daly, Jeremy B. Bierbach, Lucía Alonso Sanz Lucía Alonso Sanz – Deconstructing Hirsi: The Return of Hot Returns ECtHR 13 February 2020, Nos. 8675/15 and 8697/15, ND and NT v Spain – 335 Subjects Defending democracy: conviction of the Golden Dawn party in Greece as a criminal Book Review Essay organisation; Nomination of judges: selection and its traces in constitutional review case law in Susanne K. Schmidt – Just Hitting the Nail or Also the Thumb? The Court’s Deference to Spain; Citizenship: the complexities of Northern Ireland; Constitution and the political: Member States – 353 a culture of legalism in Ireland; Fundamental freedoms: article 9 of the Convention and the sincerity of belief; Proportionality: a closer analysis of the German PSPP judgment; Migration law: a case note on ND and NT v Spain; Review essay: Zglinski’s book on deference to member states 2021 Volume 17 Volume 2021 177–367 Cambridge Core For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: cambridge.org/euconst 2021/2 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.22, on 01 Oct 2021 at 04:10:30, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000225 Board of Editors Editorial Policy & Guidelines for Contributors Leonard F.M. 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