In his new CEU DI Working Paper our Senior Research Fellow Martin Krygier argues for the inclusion of private power as integral to the ideal of the rule of law.
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 |
| Antoni Abat i Ninet | Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Petr Agha | Research Affiliate |
| Petra Bard | CEU Research Affiliate |
| Elena Basheska | OSUN Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Mariam Begadze | OSUN Doctoral Fellow |
| Rodion Belkovich | Research Affiliate |
| Violeta Besirevic | CEU Research Affiliate |
| Andrey Bystrov | Research Affiliate |
| Sarah Ganty | Research Affiliate |
| Oliver Garner | Editor / Post-doctoral Fellow / re:constitution Fellow |
| Barbara Grabowska-Moroz | Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Joelle Grogan | Research Fellow |
| Martin Krygier | Senior Research Fellow |
| Teodora Miljojkovic | OSUN Doctoral Fellow / Intern |
| Andras Laszlo Pap | CEU Research Affiliate |
| Laurent Pech | Senior Research Fellow |
| Evgeny Romanovskiy | Junior Research Affiliate |
| Wojciech Sadurski | Senior Research Fellow |
| Andras Sajo | Senior Research Fellow / CEU Professor |
| Renata Uitz | Co-director / CEU Professor |
| Jacquelyn Veraldi | Junior Research Fellow |
| Garvan Walshe | Research Affiliate |
| Edit Zgut-Przybylska | re:constitution Fellow |
Projects
News
March 7, 2023
“The inherent weaknesses and uncertainties of the Rule of Law contribute to illiberal regime building,” our Senior Research Fellow Andras Sajo argues in the latest CEU DI Working Paper.
February 27, 2023
The Belgian Constitutional Court has “recently condoned the torture of an innocent citizen putting the very right to life on the line in a blunt attack against the overwhelming political consensus,” our researchers Sarah Ganty and Dimitry Kochenov write in Knack.
February 22, 2023
After showing how constitutional identity may be created and coded, the latest CEU DI Working Paper by our Research Affiliate Petra Bard, Nora Chronowski and Zoltan Fleck offers examples of the uses, misuses, and abuses of the concept by various EU Member States.
February 6, 2023
The CEU Democracy Institute's Rule of Law Workgroup is looking for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with an excellent record of publications and international collaboration on the rule of law, strong familiarity with ongoing international and European litigation, and political developments in this field.
Audiovisuals
March 22, 2022
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.
December 13, 2021
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!
December 8, 2021
Our Senior Research Fellow, Andras Sajo speaks about his book, Ruling by Cheating – Governance in Illiberal Democracy, published by Cambridge University Press.
October 19, 2021
RevDem assistant editor Teodora Miljojkovic talks with Andras Sajo, Professor in the Department of Legal Studies at CEU, Senior Research Fellow at CEU Democracy Institute, and former judge of the European Court of Human Rights about his new book.
August 25, 2021
Our Research Affiliate Petra Bard gave a one-hour-podcast-interview to the legal chapter of the popular Hungarian YouTube channel Partizan on the rule of law in the European Union.