In the September 2019 edition of the European Constitutional Law Review, Laetitia Houben argues that political scientist Benjamin Schupmann’s 2017 book “Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis” is “recommended for anyone interested in Schmitt.” Schmitt is one of the 20th century’s most controversial constitutional theorists because of his relationship to Nazism. Despite controversy around Schmitt, Houben writes, Schupmann shows that Schmitt’s thought offers liberal democrats today “new insight into the problem of democratic suicide.”