Systemic issues remain unaddressed, our Senior Research Fellow Laurent Pech said to New York Times. “The situation of [Polish] judges remains very difficult,” our Research Affiliate Anna Wojcik added.
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 |
| Beata Bako | Research Affiliate, re:constitution Fellow |
| 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, re:constitution Fellow |
| Barbara Grabowska-Moroz | Post-doctoral Fellow |
| Joelle Grogan | Research Fellow |
| Martin Krygier | Senior Research Fellow |
| Andras Laszlo Pap | CEU Research Affiliate |
| Laurent Pech | Senior Research Fellow |
| Andras Sajo | Senior Research Fellow / CEU Professor |
| Maciej Taborowski | Research Affiliate, re:constitution Fellow |
| Renata Uitz | Co-director / CEU Professor |
| Jacquelyn Veraldi | Junior Research Fellow |
| Anna Wojcik | Research Affiliate, re:constitution Fellow |
Projects
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News
June 2, 2022
In Hungary, “Fidesz cemented all significant rules, institutions and positions into the constitution and cardinal laws,” our Research Affiliate Beata Bako writes in her article in Heidelberg Journal of International Law.
May 10, 2022
“Hungary's public law history has few elements that are compatible with modern constitutional values,” our Research Affiliate Petra Bard and co-authors Nora Chronowski and Zoltan Fleck write in their paper, published in MTA Law Working Papers.
May 5, 2022
“The EU is harboring a Member State which, through a method of abusive constitutionalism, is not a constitutional democracy anymore,” our Research Affiliate Petra Bard and co-authors Zoltan Fleck and Nora Chronowski write in their paper, published in MTA Law Working Papers.
May 3, 2022
Scholars and decision-makers fall “prey to illiberal tactics of misusing argument in the rule of law debate,” our Research Affiliate Petra Bard and co-authors Anita Koncsik and Zsolt Kortvelyesi write in their paper, published in MTA Law Working Papers.
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.