The European Commission’s rule of law report is useful for solving rule of law problems for well-intentioned, democratic actors, but it does not deliver results for malevolent, autocratic actors, our Senior Research Fellow Laurent Pech said to HVG.
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 9, 2022
“It is a political question whether people will be checked, and which people will be,” Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup told BBC Serbia.
October 27, 2022
Citizenship-based exclusions from the right to seek asylum or apply for a visa is a direct violation of EU law, Dimitry Kochenov, lead researcher of our Rule of Law Workgroup argued to Delphi.
October 10, 2022
In her chapter in Democratic Crisis Revisited, our Co-director Renata Uitz explores how traces of dissent have been erased from the public square in Hungary.
October 3, 2022
It is hardly a coincidence that the Hungarian government introduced a new requirement: women seeking abortion will be obliged to listen to the “fetal heartbeat,” our Co-Director Renata Uitz writes in her op-ed in Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs.
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.