Kriszta Kovács

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Short CV:

Kriszta Kovács (on research leave until September 2021) currently is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at WZB Berlin Center for Global Constitutionalism. She is a former managing editor of the CUP journal Global Constitutionalism. She is also a former senior adviser of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, and former co-president of the Joint Council on Constitutional Justice (Venice Commission, Council of Europe). She holds a PhD in law from ELTE University and has held fellowships at the Human Rights Institute of the Columbia Law School, New York, at the University of Trento, Italy, at the University of Birmingham, UK and from the UK Foreign Office and the Zeit Stiftung.

Selected publications:

The fragility of an independent judiciary: Lessons from Hungary and Poland–and the European Union (with Kim Lane Scheppele) Communist and Post-Communist Studies 51(3), 189–200 (2018)

The Rise of an Ethnocultural Constitutional Identity in the Jurisprudence of the East Central European Courts German Law Journal 18(7) 1703-1720 (2017)

Hungary’s Constitutional Transformation, (with Gábor Attila Tóth) European Constitutional Law Review 7 183-203 (2011)