Constructing the Theoretical Framework of Knowledge Formation in the Context of the European Union’s Response to the Rule of Law Crisis. The research project theorizes the discursive practices shaping the European Union’s constitutional response to the rule of law crisis. It moves beyond the dominant questions of effectiveness, legitimacy, and doctrinal soundness of the EU’s response. Building on the author’s previous research on the discourses conditioning EU institutional reactions to democratic backsliding in the Member States, the project aims to construct a systematic conceptual framework for knowledge production within the EU constitutional order. To this end, the research draws on insights from critical theory and the sociology of knowledge, linking them to recent debates on constitutional pluralism and EU membership. Rather than contributing substantively to these debates, the project problematizes them as elements of EU constitutional knowledge. In this regard, it asks to what extent these debates are reshaped by specific discursive practices of judicial interpretation, legal scholarship, and interventionist "scholactivism." The project represents a significant step toward a theory of the EU’s response to the rule of law crisis as shaped by diverse constitutional actors operating at the intersection of knowledge and power. Its broader ambition is to propose a conceptual framework that can be applied to other contexts of systemic crisis within the EU.