In collaboration with Hertie School and EUI, we are happy to announce the launch of our new project, entitled Organized Religion, Constitutions and Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (ReLiCon).
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 |
| 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
November 22, 2022
“The European Union legal order constitutes an important challenge to traditional thinking about the rule of law,” our Post-doctoral Research Fellow Barbara Grabowska-Moroz writes in her article for The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.
November 16, 2022
The presumption ‘once a democracy, always a democracy,’ “proved to be wrong,” our Research Affiliate Petra Bard and Viktor Zoltan Kazai write in their article for The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.
November 15, 2022
In her presentation our Co-director Renata Uitz talked about her ongoing research project Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe.
November 14, 2022
Anti-tyranny mechanisms only work with politicians who accept the rules, our Co-director Renata Uitz said in an interview with Folha de S. Paulo.
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.