Judicial Studies Institute (JUSTIN) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University
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Happy to welcome Wojciech Zomerski, Max Weber Fellow at the EUI & researcher at the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory (University of Wrocław).
📃Executive Dominance and the Rise of Populism in Power:
A Mutually Reinforcing Dynamic?
👏 Thank you, Wojciech, for the engaging discussion. 📚
Link below ⬇️
Our Ondřej Kadlec @ondrejkadlec.bsky.social joined CZDEMOS4AI conference on responsible & trustworthy AI in Czechia 🤖⚖️ He contributed to a legal workshop on a Czech legal AI assistant, focusing on transparency, accountability, data quality & human oversight. Proud to contribute to the discussion.
New publication alert 📚 Our team member Michal Kovalčík has co-authored a new EuConst case note with Jakub Stádník (Faculty of Law, Charles University): "Preaching Consistency, Drinking Inconsistency".
🔓 Open Access – freely available to read.
🔗See the link below.
👏Congrats to both authors!
Last week, Lukáš Hamřík joined the LSA Annual Meeting (May 28–31) in San Francisco & presented his research on how political parties across the EU respond to democratic backsliding in member states.
Happy to see our team's represented. Well done, Lukáš! 👏
Last week davidkosar.bsky.social &
katarinasipulova.bsky.social participated in the workshop "The Legal Complex and Autocratization" in Oñati. David presented 'Judicial Overstay'. Katarína a NET-ROL paper on judicial associations & the rule of law. 📄Read it online: www.net-rol.eu/publications...
New blog post by @davidkosar.bsky.social on Hungary’s judiciary after Orbán:
How can democratic reform avoid repeating the mistakes of court-packing?
“Don’t Imitate – Innovate!” argues for building a more resilient, transparent, and trusted judiciary.
🔗 verfassungsblog.de/fixing-the-h...
📢 New chapter by @davidkosar.bsky.social & @katarinasipulova.bsky.social in “Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices”, a monograph by edited by Erin F. Delaney efieldingd.bsky.social and Rosalind Dixon! 🏛️
It tells stories of Eliška Wagnerová & Iva Brožová in the post-communist Czech judiciary ⚖️
📢 The Oxford Global Society recently hosted the "Courts Under Scrutiny" roundtable.
@katarinasipulova.bsky.social joined fellow leading scholars to debate judicial resistance, how courts act in gray areas, and the limits of judicial populism 🏛️⚖️
🔗 Full debate here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hI...
Hungary's courts are packed with Orbán's judges.
DAVID KOSAŘ argues that Magyar should not just play tit-for-tat but innovate: restructure appointments, limit the chief justice's powers, and build a judiciary that earns public trust.
verfassungsblog.de/fixing-the-h...
Verfassungsblog
Elgar Companion to Female Chief Justices in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Erin F. Delaney @efieldingd.bsky.social and Rosalind Dixon
🆓 chapter | Judicial heroines? Comparative and conceptual reflections
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
