Meet the mentors
Judicial Independence
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Laurent Pech
Full Professor of Law, Dean of Law and Head of the Sutherland School of Law, Visiting Professor of Law at Bordeaux University, a Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, and the co-director of The Good Lobby Profs
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Filipe Marques
Media Freedom
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Anna Wójcik
Post-doc researcher at the MEMOCRACY project and Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ILS PAS), co-founder of the Wiktor Osiatynski Archive and the ruleoflaw.pl
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Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
Assistant Professor, University of Peloponnese; Senior Research Fellow, ELIAMEP; European Law & Governance, Fundamental Rights, Judicial Dialogue, Digital Technology and Digital Media, EU Policy Mainstreaming, The Regulation of Culture
Academic Freedom
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Gráinne de Búrca
Legal scholar, specialising in European Union law. Since 2011, she has been Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. From 1990 to 2000, she was a lecturer at University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She was then Professor of Law at the European University Institute, Fordham University School of Law, and Harvard Law School, before joining New York University.
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Vasiliki Kosta
Assistant Professor of European Law at the Europa Institute of Leiden University. Kosta has acted as the coordinator of the LL.M. European Law programme at Leiden University, and she leads the research cluster on EU fundamental rights of the Europa Institute’s research programme ‘The Progression of EU Law: accommodating change and upholding values’.
Protection of NGOs/civic space
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Márta Pardavi
Co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a leading human rights NGO based in Budapest, Hungary. A lawyer by training, she has recently been focusing on the threats to the rule of law and civil society space in Hungary and in the EU. She also co-leads the Recharging Advocacy for Rights in Europe (RARE) programme, which equips human rights defenders to build stronger organisations and alliances for joint action on civic space and rule of law in the EU.
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Joelle Grogan
Legal academic, expert in the rule of law and crisis governance, and working in the fields of EU law, public law, health law and comparative constitutional law. She is currently Senior Researcher (Research Fellow) at UK in a Changing Europe, an independent think tank based at King's College London. She is also Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute, Co-Director of The Good Lobby Profs, and Creator of Sticky Tricky Law.
Protecting the EU budget and Recovery
Funds
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Thu Nguyen
Policy Fellow for EU Institutions and Democracy at the Jacques Delors Centre. Before joining the Centre, she was an Assistant Professor of comparative constitutional law at the Department of Public Law at Maastricht University. She holds a PhD in EU and comparative constitutional law from Maastricht University and was a re:constitution Fellow 2019-2020.
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Matteo Bonelli
Assistant Professor of EU law at Maastricht University. Member of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) as well as the editorial board of European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst).
Legal methods to protect the rule of law
(infringement actions)
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Daniel Sarmiento
Academic, lawyer and entrepreneur specialized in European Union Law. Besides practicing law in a leading Spanish law firm, he teaches intensively on all EU-related areas of law, as well as promoting EU Law through EU Law Live, an information platform of which he is Editor-in-Chief and founder.
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Petra Bard
Professor at Radboud University, Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), Nijmegen; Associate Professor at ELTE School of Law, Budapest; Research Affiliate at CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest and Visiting Professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She participates in numerous professional networks and international research projects dealing with human rights and the rule of law.
Political and policy methods to protect the
rule of law
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Jan Wouters
Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary research centre with the status of both a Jean Monnet and KU Leuven Centre of Excellence, at KU Leuven, President of KU Leuven’s International Policy Council and Administrator of the America Europe Fund.
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Marlene Wind
Protecting national democracy
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Cassandra Emmons
Democracy Data Analyst at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Prior to joining IFES, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University with the Research Cluster on Regions in a Multipolar World. There, she managed an interdisciplinary team gathering and generating quantitative and qualitative data on regionalism. She was also a lecturer in Princeton University’s Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs, teaching the PhD seminar in qualitative and mixed-method research.
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Sebastien Platon
European political parties and European
Parliament political groups
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Wouter Wolfs
Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Public Governance Institute, principal investigator of the project “Between European Values, Contestation and Survival: the Changing Law and Politics of a Geopolitical European Union (CHANGE)” of the UNA Europa Programme.
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Aleksejs Dimitrovs
(Non-)implementation of ECtHR and ECJ
judgments
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Barbara Grabowska Moroz
Research fellow at CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest, Hungary). In 2018-2021 she was a postdoc researcher in the RECONNECT project (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). In 2010-2018 she worked as a lawyer and project coordinator in the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Warsaw, Poland), and as a legal expert in FRANET.
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Jakub Jaraczewski
Research Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International. Jaraczewski conducts research and analysis on the rule of law and human rights and is engaged in the “re:constitution – Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe” programme.
Amicus Curiae at the ECJ (by the Good Lobby)
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Alberto Alemanno
Academic, author, public interest lawyer and civic entrepreneur. He is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009, permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy, and at the College of Europe in Bruges.
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Jasper Krommendijk
Associate Professor of International and European Law, Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), Radboud University, the Netherlands.