📢 Latest article by @davidkosar.bsky.social & Attila Vincze is out! It explores how unwritten constitutional conventions function in Central European civil law systems 🏛️ Why do Czechia & Poland diverge? ⚖️
🔗Read more here: doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf031
Delighted to host @anabobic.bsky.social at the JUSTIN seminar for her talk on “Hierarchies of human beings and freedom under EU law.” 🎓
Great discussion also with colleagues from Constitutional Law & Political Science! 💬
Thank you Ana for the visit!
🔗https://justin.law.muni.cz/en/news/conference-on-unwritten-constitutionalism-and-informality
On 10–11 Feb 2026, the “Unwritten Constitutionalism and Informality” conference debated unwritten norms, constitutional culture & institutional resilience, key reasearch areas of the ERC INFINITY & the UCNP projects
@ucnpproject.bsky.social
Read the full article 👇Link in comments.
Great seminar last week with Agnieszka Kubal (in person) & Anna Ratecka (online) on abortion governance in post-2023 Poland.
Their paper explores how executive guidelines reshape access amid parliamentary deadlock—creating “liminal law” and structured legal uncertainty. ⚖️📚
We kicked of the Unwritten Constitutionalism & Informality Conference today in Brno bettween JUSTIN and the UCNP project @ucnpproject.bsky.social organized also with Durham, EUI & uOttawa, within the ERC INFINITY & UCNP projects at Masaryk University.
⚖️📘 Last week, 2nd edition of European Convention on Human Rights. Commentary was launched at the Constitutional Court. The updated volume reflects 13 years of ECtHR case law & procedural changes. Proud to see @davidkosar.bsky.social @katarinasipulova.bsky.social & Michal Kovalčík among the authors
Last week, our colleagues @davidkosar.bsky.social & @katarinasipulova.bsky.social spoke at a Supreme Court seminar on judicial decision-making in times of deep societal polarization. David discussed political & ideological pressures on judges; Katarína the impact of public opinion & social media.
🌍 At yesterday’s JUSTIN seminar, Zinaida Bechná (IIPS, FSS MU) presented the HORIZON Twinning project CENTREPEACE @centrepeace.bsky.social and research from “The Clash of Diffusions” on political change in post-Soviet in-between countries, with a focus on Georgia.
🧑⚖️🤖 Who speaks for the Constitutional Court today?
A new Respekt commentary by @ondrejkadlec.bsky.social examines the AI chatbot on the Czech Constitutional Court’s website—and the institutional questions it raises about responsibility, limits, and court–public communication.
🔗Link below in Czech.
👏 Congrats to @ondrejkadlec.bsky.social on winning the GAČR funding for the 3-year JUDITA project! It will explore how court digitization and data shape court management & evaluation of judges, and their impact on independence, accountability & efficiency with an interdisciplinary team.
estal.lexxion.eu/article/ESTA...
Can EU State aid law defend media freedom?
Magyar Hang challenges €1.1bn in Hungarian state ads allegedly favouring pro-government media. If Commission acts, this case could test whether State aid law can curb media capture. Attila Vincze in EStAL. 🔗below
#RuleOfLaw #MediaFreedom #StateAid #EUlaw
@davidkosar.bsky.social took part in the international Cyberspace Conference at the Faculty of Law, MU (28–29 Nov). ⚖️💻 He commented in the debate alongside Vice-Dean Radim Polčák and keynote speaker Burkhard Schafer (Uni of Edinburgh), discussing digitalisation and AI in law.
🔗 cyberspace.muni.cz
🎙️ New Podcast Episode!
Our colleagues @ehanelt.bsky.social & Attila Vincze join Arena Europa to unpack how Hungary’s judiciary is managed in a competitive authoritarian system — from subtle pressure tools to why resistance has been limited.
🎧 Worth a listen! Link ⬇
www.sv.uio.no/arena/englis...
📖 Read it Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 Full list of awardees: www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/184...
🎉 Exciting news!
🏆 @katarinasipulova.bsky.social has received the MUNI SCIENTIST AWARD 2025 for her article “The Light and the Dark Side of Judicial Resistance” in Law & Policy. 👏 Congratulations, Katka!
Find the links to the article and the full list of awardees in the comments.
📷 Martin Indruch
📢 Latest article from Patrick Leisure explores why ECtHR went from tolerating corporal punishment in the 1990s to recognizing verbal abuse as mental violence in schools by 2021
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YY9JJ...
📷Source: IIPS
🏛️ On 27 Nov @katarinasipulova.bsky.social @davidkosar.bsky.social & Attila Vincze spoke at the conference “Zrcadlo minulosti: jak na (re)demokratizaci?” at FSS MU.
🔹 Šipulová & Kosař discussed judicial independence
🔹 Vincze outlined key developments in the Hungarian judiciary over the past 15 years
📢 Our colleague @davidkosar.bsky.social joined the Scholar-in-Residence Conference 2025 “What Constitutional Future for Ukraine?” in Hamburg, speaking with on judicial independence, a key element for Ukraine’s democratic future. We’re proud of his contribution 👏
📅 On Monday, we hosted Tomáš Koref at our seminar.
📄 We discussed his paper "Mining Legal Arguments to Study Judicial Formalism..." with commentary from @ondrejkadlec.bsky.social.
🙏 Thanks, Tomáš, for the insights!
📢 New article by Mathieu Leloup in ICON•S! 📰 @icon-s.bsky.social
How do supranational courts reshape the domestic separation of powers? ⚖️🌍
It discusses how the case law of supranational courts forms a blueprint for domestic separation of powers🏛️
🔗Open Access text: academic.oup.com/icon/article...
📢Latest article by @ondrejkadlec.bsky.social is out in International & Comparative Law Quarterly! @iclq.bsky.social
In this piece, Ondřej Kadlec explores two ways courts make use of their grand chambers — the Collective Control Model👥 and the Jurisprudential Model📚
🔗Read more here: bit.ly/43mm2DN
🏅 Congrats to @davidkosar.bsky.social awarded the Bronze Antonín Randa Medal for his work on judicial self-government and European judicial systems! The medal was presented by the Union of Czech Lawyers (Jednota českých právníků) in Prague’s Karolinum.
🔗 www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/183...
📖 Last week, Attila Vincze participated in the Erasmus programme at the University of Würzburg, where he delivered lectures on European Administrative Law. The visit provided an excellent opportunity for academic exchange and discussions with students and colleagues 🍂
🚨 New Working Paper drop! 🚨
Mathieu Leloup explores how fundamental rights can reshape government architecture through the idea of structural rights — rights that, when enforced, directly alter institutions and the separation of powers.
Read more 👉 justin.law.muni.cz/media/396614...
📢 Our second article in Common Market Law Review!
Insight the ECJ’s NFK judgment — a key episode in Hungary’s usufruct saga 🏛️
It highlights the real-world stakes of legal uncertainty, showing how EU law safeguards fundamental rights ⚖️
👉 Read more here: kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...
📢 One of our two new articles in Common Market Law Review!
In its Grand Chamber judgment CV v Ministerstvo vnitra ČR, the ECJ reshaped the concept of safe country of origin in EU asylum 🏛
This sparked debates on the limits of judicial power ⚖️
👉 Read more: kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...
