The amendments “will significantly improve the position of stateless people, as well as all those who had to flee their own countries," Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup said to BBC Serbia.

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 |
Rafal Manko | Research Affiliate |
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
“As long as European citizens do not feel that the situation of the rule of law in Hungary is also their concern, politicians will not feel the need to act,” our Research Affiliate Petra Bard said to Jelen.
The European Commission can act only when financial interests of the Union are at stake, our Research Affiliate Petra Bard said to Het Financieele Dagblad.
The latest CEU DI Working Paper by our Post-doctoral Fellow Barbara Grabowska-Moroz discusses the recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU in the Getin Noble Bank case.
The book, edited by Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup, and Kristin Surak (LSE), and published by Cambridge University Press, takes an interdisciplinary approach to unpacking investment migration.
Audiovisuals
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.
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.
Debates on the state of democracy in EU Member States have been intensifying. In a debate organized by the CEU Democracy Institute, chaired by Dimitry Kochenov and moderated by R. Daniel Kelemen, Vera Jourova, Clement Beaune and Michal Simecka addressed the question how to strengthen democracy at the national level.
Oliver Garner interviews Professor Dimitry Kochenov on the prospects for Member State to Member State infringement actions to enforce the Rule of Law in the EU.
Oliver Garner interviews Professor Petra Bard (CEU and Eötvös Loránd University) on the new regime of budget conditionality to enforce the Rule of Law in the European Union.