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