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Rule of Law

Attacks on rule of law have long been integral to democratic decay. However, today’s authoritarians often instrumentalize law and democratic norms. Most research in this field focuses on the law or politics. The Institute, by contrast, will bring together lawyers, political scientists, sociologists and political economists to explore the how the erosion of rule of law shapes national developmental models and the extent to which it varies across economic sectors or through the influence of domestic or external actors.

Researchers

Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov Lead Researcher / Senior Research Fellow / CEU Professor
Petr Agha Research Affiliate
Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifanova Research Affiliate
Petra Bard CEU Research Affiliate
Elena Basheska Post-doctoral Fellow
Mariam Begadze CEU Doctoral Fellow
Violeta Besirevic CEU Research Affiliate
Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska Post-doctoral Fellow
Sarah Ganty CEU Research Affiliate / Research Incubation Fellow
Oliver Garner Editor / Post-doctoral Fellow / re:constitution Fellow
Barbara Grabowska-Moroz Senior Research Fellow
Joelle Grogan Senior Research Fellow
Martin Krygier Senior Research Fellow
Katarzyna Lakomiec Research Affiliate
Rafal Manko Research Affiliate
Rafael Nunes Junior Research Affiliate
Laurent Pech Senior Research Fellow
Wojciech Sadurski Senior Research Fellow
Andras Sajo Senior Research Fellow / CEU Professor
Omer Shatz Senior Research Fellow
Renata Uitz Senior Research Fellow
Garvan Walshe Research Affiliate
Miroslaw Wroblewski Senior Research Fellow
Edit Zgut-Przybylska Research Affiliate
Michal Ziolkowski Research Affiliate

News

Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar: Subverting Judicial Legitimacy: Presidential Rhetoric and Democratic Erosion in Mexico

In the latest DI Working Paper, using an original database, ITESO Professor Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar analyzes how attacks on the judiciary can lead to democratic erosion and what role judges play in accelerating or stopping such regression.

Sarah Ganty, Dimitry Kochenov: How the EU Death Machine Works

In a post for the journalistic-academic blog Verfassungsblog, our CEU Research Affiliate Sarah Ganty and Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup discuss how the EU's "lawlessness law" is responsible for the migrant deaths on the Mediterranean, turning the sea into "a racialized grave."

Elena Basheska, Dimitry Kochenov: Migration and Citizenship in Europe – Does ‘Illiberalism’ Matter?

Our Post-doctoral Research Fellow Elena Basheska and Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup published a new paper entitled Migration and Citizenship in Europe – Does ‘Illiberalism’ Matter? Eurowhiteness Solidarity from the EU and Hungary to the UK, COMPAS Working Paper No, 167-2024 (University of Oxford).

DI Director Laszlo Bruszt Discusses Rule of Law Clinic on Civil Rádió

The DI’s Director, Laszlo Bruszt discussed our Rule of Law Clinic project in an interview on Hungarian radio station Civil Rádió.

CEU Democracy Institute Establishes Rule of Law Clinic

Central European University (CEU) has established a Rule of Law Clinic at its Democracy Institute in Budapest, Hungary, to address urgent challenges to the Rule of Law in Europe, with a generous one million Euro grant from the Stiftung Mercator.

Audiovisuals

Immigration and Citizenship in Europe: Does ‘Illiberalism’ Matter?

At a workshop organized on February 9, 2024, at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, Dimitry Kochenov (Professor, CEU; Senior Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute) and Elena Basheshka (Post-doctoral Research Fellow, CEU Democracy Institute) discussed their research tackling immigration and citizenship in Europe.

Webinar Series: Constitutional Populism

The research project Constitutional Populism: Friend or Foe of Constitutional Democracy, led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), organized a series of webinars co-hosted by the DI and the Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law.

Nationalism, Populism, and the Politics of Religion. Towards an Illiberal Reframing of Fundamental Rights

Did you miss the lecture by Professor Susanna Mancini under our Organised religion, constitutions and democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe project? Read a summary or watch it now.

Focus On Research - Renata Uitz

In the CEU's Focus On Research series, our Co-Director Renata Uitz speaks on "The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism" (2021 by Routledge), the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural, legal, and mental phenomenon.

Values, Rights and Principles in EU Law

Did you miss our event "Values, Rights and Principles in EU Law" with Lucia Serena Rossi, Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Law? Watch it now!