CEU Department of Legal Studies

10/03/2026

On February 27, CEU hosted a conference centered on the content of a special issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON-S): “Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).” The conference was presented by CEU’s Departments of Legal Studies and Gender Studies, and organized by co-editors: CEU Pro-Rector for External Relations and Professor Mathias Moschel, Associate Professor Barbara Havelkova (Oxford University), and Professor Anna Sledzinska-Simon (University of Wroclaw).

CEU conference presents findings from special issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

10/03/2026

What does international labor law look like when it steps off the printed page and onto the Vienna U1 subway line? The Labor Migration Law and Business class with Prof. Lena Riemer traded the theoretical frameworks of the UN Migrant Worker Convention and EU Directives for a pair of walking shoes. To better understand the "lived experience" of the legal structures we study, the class embarked on a field tour of Favoriten and the Vienna Central Station (Wien Hauptbahnhof), led by student presenters who linked specific urban landmarks to the complex story of migration in Austria.

Vienna Pathways Tour – Out of the Classroom and into the Streets

06/03/2026

📚 How do technocrats and politicians shape democracy?

Join us at CEU for the launch of Democracy on a Tightrope, a new book exploring how meritocracy, bureaucracy, and political power interact in shaping democratic governance in Brazil.

🗓 March 23, 2026
📍 Central European University, Vienna
💬 Discussion with the authors

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Book Launch Monday, March 23, 2026, 12:30 am – 1:30 pm The Pro-Rectorate of External Relations is pleased to invite you to the book launch of Democracy on a Tightrope: Politics and Bureaucracy in Brazil. The event will feature the authors Pedro Abramovay and Gabriela Lotta in conversation with Jul...

25/10/2024

Join Prof. Kisilowski in his talks at the American Constitution Society at Yale (Nov 8 ) and at Princeton (Nov 6).

https://lisd.princeton.edu/events/day-after-overcoming-polarization-poland-and-elsewhere

https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/acs/rsvp_boot?id=2284523

A day after yet another close election in which, according to many commentators, the future of American democracy was at stake, we should ask: Is there a way out? Are we stuck in a never-ending fight to save our democracies from the right-wing revolutionary predilections of a significant committed m...

22/10/2024

Read Professor Tajti's latest publication on secured transactions law.

The new article of Professor Tajti devoted to the myriad issues related to secured transactions law reforms ongoing during the last decade in Africa and Central Asia, from Nigeria, Ethiopia to Caucasian Georgia. Relying on the related experiences, successes and failures, from the 1990s reforms in Ce...

15/10/2024

Join this online guest lecture with Prof. Markus Böckenförde on Multilevel Constitutionalism Beyond the State at Jindal Global Law School on Oct 16.

23/07/2024

On Thursday 11 July 2024, Markus Böckenförde participated in a seminar on 'Proactive Constitutional Review Processes', which was jointly organised by International IDEA and the Polish Ministry of Justice. In a discussion that included the Polish Minister of Justice, Adam Bodnar, the President of t...