Poland's anti-constitutional breakdown poses three questions that this book sets out to answer: What, exactly, has happened since 2015? Why did it happen? And what are the prospects for a return to liberal democracy? Wojciech Sadurski has written the kind of legal thriller you might wish were fiction ... In just a few years, Poland has been transformed from a model state to a pariah and Sadurski's account shows how and why, in ethnographic and legal detail. Ever the legal theorist, Sadurski rises above the specificity of the case to offer general reflection, substantial analysis, and a series of important lessons we can learn from the collapse of a constitutional democracy. This book is a haunting cautionary tale of our populist moment.