“The Rule of Law report draws a very devastating picture about Poland and Hungary,” our Research Affiliate Petra Bard said in a live interview with Al Jazeera.
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
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Lead Researcher / Senior Research Fellow / CEU Professor |
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Junior Research Affiliate / Re:constitution Fellow |
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CEU Research Affiliate |
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow |
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CEU Research Affiliate |
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow |
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| Joelle Grogan | Research Fellow |
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Senior Research Fellow |
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| András László Pap | CEU Research Affiliate |
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Senior Research Fellow |
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Senior Research Fellow / CEU Professor |
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CEU Research Affiliate / CEU Professor |
Research projects
Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and Rule of Law (RECONNECT)
Researchers: Petra Bard, Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov, Andras Sajo
RECONNECT is a four-year multidisciplinary research project on ‘Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law’, aimed at understanding and providing solutions to the recent challenges faced by the European Union (EU). With an explicit focus on strengthening the EU’s legitimacy through democracy and the rule of law, RECONNECT seeks to build a new narrative for Europe, enabling the EU to become more attuned to the expectations of its citizens. RECONNECT brings together 18 academic partner institutions from 14 countries.
July 20, 2021
The Digital Green Certificate proposed by the European Commission has the “potential to facilitate greater free movement restrictions for a large number of EU citizens,” Dimitry Kochenov and Jacquelyn Veraldi write in their article in European Journal of Risk Regulation, published online by Cambridge University Press.
June 25, 2021
"No winners emerge out of a consideration of the two key EU crises side-by-side: the ‘migration crisis’ (…) and the ‘rule of law crisis’,” Barbara Grabowska-Moroz and Dimitry Kochenov write in their latest article.
June 15, 2021
Co-organized with re:constitution and RECONNECT, the first public event of CEU Democracy Institute’s Rule of Law Working Group allowed key DI experts engaged with the case-law to outline the bigger picture, while focusing on crucial details.
May 27, 2021
The “rule of law-enhancing process of re-articulation of EU constitutionalism is ongoing and represents the Court of Justice’s incrementalist response to the process of rule of law backsliding which first emerged in Hungary before spreading to Poland,” Laurent Pech and Dimitry Kochenov write in their forthcoming SIEPS report.
April 22, 2021
Dimitry Kochenov, Lead Researcher of our Rule of Law working group gave an interview on Danish citizenship rules to the program Good Morning Europe on Euronews.
April 15, 2021
“The recent jurisprudence of Hungarian apex courts (...) set a dangerous precedent that could be broadly applied against critics of the government, aka the EU’s first electoral autocracy,” our Research Affiliate, Petra Bard writes in her post on Verfassungsblog.
April 7, 2021
The New York Times covered a lawsuit against a Hungarian journalist, and quoted our Research Affiliate, Petra Bard.
March 22, 2021
Luiza Bialasiewicz, Nikolaus Forgo, Joelle Grogan, Oskar Gstrein and Dimitry Kochenov discussed European vaccine passports and their impact on the citizens’ rights and the Rule of Law in Europe.
March 8, 2021
In the latest RevDem Rule of Law podcast, Oliver Garner interviews Professor Nandini Ramanujam on the interplay of the concepts of academic freedom and the rule of law, in both liberal and illiberal societies.