The study of our Senior Research Fellow Laurent Pech, requested by the EP’s AFCO Committee, focuses on the scope of the Court of Justice of the EU’s jurisdiction over national measures relating to the organization of national judiciaries.

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
Dimitry Kochenov: Dialogical Rule of Law in the Hands of the Court of Justice: Analysis and Critique
In his new CEU DI Working Paper Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup argues that “the Court of Justice deploys the Rule of Law to pre-empt necessary dialogue and to disqualify substantive arguments of principle originating in other legal orders.”
The increasing Hungarian veto policy is a sign of isolation within the EU, our re:constitution Fellow Edit Zgut-Przybylska said to Jelen.
“Some [programs] will be popping up and others will be closing down. I don’t think it’s a one-way street,” Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup said to FDI Intelligence.
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.
Audiovisuals
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.
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!
Our Senior Research Fellow, Andras Sajo speaks about his book, Ruling by Cheating – Governance in Illiberal Democracy, published by Cambridge University Press.
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.
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.