Cosmin Sebastian CercelDr Cosmin Sebastian Cercel is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom). He completed his doctorate in Comparative Legal Studies at the University Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I) in 2012 with a thesis dedicated to the anaysis of the nexus between law, politics, and culture in communist Romania. His main research focuses on genealogies of law and politics with speci c reference to 20th century continental legal history. His current research aims to put under a critical scrutiny the dissolution of classical concepts of legality and constitutionalism in the historical context of the rise of authoritarianism during the interwar in Europe. His recent publications include several articles on the relation between law and authoritarianism as well as a psychoanalytical reading of the historiographical intricacies of the authoritarian past. He is now writing a monograph analyzing the jurisprudential aspects of state communism. Read More Read Less