Gábor Halmai
Prosfessor Emeritus
Bio
Gábor Halmai is an emeritus professor both of ELTE and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Between 2016 and 2022 he was Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Law Department of EUI. He is teaching global public law at the Law School of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. His primary research interests are comparative and European constitutional law. He is editor of the CEU Press book series Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe. His latest publications include Human Dignity and Democracy (edited together with D. Bedford, C. Dupré and P. Kapotas), Edwar Elgar, 2022) and Economic Constitutionalism in a Turbulent Word (edited together with Achilles Scordas and Lisa Mardikian, Edward Elgar, 2023).
Email: halmai.gabor@tatk.elte.hu
Most recent English language publications
Liberal Zionism As a Constitutional Project: From an Utopia to a Myth, https://www.academia.edu/144271571/Liberal_Zionism_As_a_Constitutional_Project_From_an_Utopia_to_a_Myth
The Resilience of Constitutional Courts and Their Resistance to Autocratization: Beyond Binaries, Where Time Matters (together with Ágnes Kovács and Max Steuer), Demoptimism Constitutional Repair Working Paper Series 2025/2 (October 2025) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5abb53e6372b9691939ac577/t/68e3c1aa4e40c47788c7f8f4/1759756714434/DEM-DEC+WP_2025-2_Halmai+Kovacs+Steuer_final_06.10.25.pdf
Autocracy and Resistance in Hungary since 2010 (together with Bojan Bugaric), in Legal Resistance to Autocracy: The Global Fight to Save Democracy (Eds. Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Natasha Lindstaedt, David Trubek, Oscar Vilhena Vieira), Routledge, 2025. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4484312 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4484312
The Hungarian Constitutional Court: From a Target to an Agent of Autocratization (together with Ágnes Kovács), Global Jurist, 2/2025. https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:6acfc595-d256-4b02-a7e8-c92f12888726
Value conditionality as a new EU mechanism used against autocratizing Hungary, Zeitschrift für Europerechts, 2025-04-29. https://eizpublishing.ch/artikel/euz/04-2025/value-conditionality-as-a-new-eu-mechanism-used-against-autocratizing-hungary/
From Liberal Democracy to Illiberal Populist Autocracy: Possible Reasons for Hungary’s Autocratization, The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 28 May, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-024-00231-6, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40803-024-00231-6?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20240528&utm_content=10.1007/s40803-024-00231-6
Illiberal Constitutionalization and Scholarly Resistance: The Cases of Israel and Hungary,” Journal of Illiberalism Studies 4, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 33-43. https://www.illiberalism.org/illiberal-constitutionalization-and-scholarly-resistance-the-cases-of-israel-and-hungary/
Rule of Law Backsliding and Memory Politics in Hungary, European Constitutional Law Review, Volume 19. Issue 4. 2024. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-constitutional-law-review/article/rule-of-law-backsliding-and-memory-politics-in-hungary/652DB062D71BA9CB0C49F07C5E8A4D67
Is There a ‘Constitutional Moment’ in Israel and Hungary? Israeli Law Review, Volume 16, Special Issue 3, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223723000110
Economic constitutionalism, the challenge of populism, and the role of constituent power (together with Andrew Arato), in Economic constitutionalism in a turbulent world, A. Skordas, G. Halmai, L. Mardikian (eds.), Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907575.000123.
The Evolution and Gestalt of the Hungarian Constitution, in The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law: Volume II: Constitutional FoundationsArmin von Bogdandy (ed.), Peter M. Huber (ed.), Sabrina Ragone (eds.), OUP, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726425.003.0005