Dr. Kriszta Kovács
CV
September 2021-
Senior Research Fellow "Science Friction: Patterns, Causes and Effects of Academic Freedom Contestations" Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)"
September 2019-August 2021
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
January 2018-August 2019
Senior Researcher, Center for Global Constitutionalism
Managing Editor, Global Constitutionalism (Cambridge Journal)
Since 2013 -
Associate Professor, Department of Human Rights and Politics (between 2015-2016 Vice-Dean) ELTE University Faculty of Social Sciences, Budapest
2014-2016
Co-President, Joint Council on Constitutional Justice, Venice Commission
2013-2015
Postdoc Research Fellow, Project ‘Constitutional Politics in Post-Westphalian Europe’, University of Trento
1997-2013
Adviser (as of 2007 Senior Adviser), Constitutional Court of Hungary/Liaison Officer, Joint Council on Constitutional Justice, Venice Commission, Council of Europe
2002
Bucerius School on Global Governance, Hamburg
2000-2001
Visiting Research Fellow, Columbia University Law School, Human Rights Institute, NY
1998
Legal Clerkship in London (Interights, Cloisters Chambers) and in Budapest (Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre)
1996-1997
Founding Program Coordinator, Central European University Human Rights MA Program/Research Associate, Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute, Budapest
Selected Publications
Kovács, Kriszta (2023): "Identities, the Jurisprudence of Particularism and Possible Constitutional Challenges-An Introduction." In Kriszta Kovács (Ed.): The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe. Oxford: Hart, 1-30.
Baer, Susanne/Kovács, Kriszta/Vogel, Maya (2023): "Constitutionalism Today: The Prospects of the European Constitutional Community." In Kriszta Kovács (Ed.): The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe. Oxford: Hart, 187-208.
Kovács, Kriszta (2023): "Reconceptualising Constitutional Identity: The Case of Hungary." In Kriszta Kovács (Ed.): The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe. Oxford: Hart, 149-170.
Kovács, Kriszta ed. (2023): The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe. Oxford: Hart.
Kovács, Kriszta/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2023): "Review of András Sajó, Ruling by Cheating: Governance in Illiberal Democracy." International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20(5), 2074-2079.
Kovács, Kriszta (2023): "Facing the Shadows of the Past during Transitions." In Cheng-Yi Huang (Ed.): Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice: How Constitutions and Constitutional Courts Deal with Past Atrocity. London: Routledge, Chapter 2.
Kovács, Kriszta (2022): "In the Hands of a Populist Authoritarian." In Vladislava Stojanova/Stijn Smet (Eds.): Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 8.
Kovács, Kriszta (2022): "Constitutional or ethnocultural? National identity as a European legal concept" Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 8(1), 170-190.
Kovács, Kriszta (2022): "The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pretext for Expanding Power." In Joelle Grogan/Alice Donald (Eds.): Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic. London: Routledge, Chapter 21.
Kovács, Kriszta/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2021): "Od niedoskonałej demokracji do niekompletnej autokracji (From an Imperfect Democracy to an Incomplete Autocracy)". In Adam Czarnota/Michał Paździora/Michał Stambulski (Eds.): Nowy Konstytucjonalizm. Polityczność, tożsamość, sfera publiczna (New Constitutionalism. Politics, Identity, Public Sphere) Warsaw: Scholar, 175-207.
Kovács, Kriszta (2020): "People, Sovereignty and Citizenship: The Ethnonational Populists' Constitutional Vocabulary" Statelessness & Citizenship Review, Vol. 2 No. 2, 389-394.
Kovács, Kriszta (2020): "Parliamentary Democracy by Default. Applying the European Convention on Human Rights to Presidential Elections and Referendums" Jus Cogens - A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics, Vol. 2 No. 3, 1-22.
Kovács, Kriszta (2020): "Democracy in Lockdown" Social Research. An International Quarterly, In Time of Plague: The History and Lethal Consequences of Epidemic Disease, Vol. 87 No. 2 (Summer 2020)
Kovács, Kriszta (2020): "Constitutional Continuity Disrupted". In: Margit Feischmidt/Balázs Majtényi (Eds.): The Rise of Populist Nationalism. Budapest-New York, CEU Press, 11-43.
Kovács, Kriszta/Scheppele, Kim Lane (2019): "The Fragility of an Independent Judiciary: lessons from Hungary and Poland -- and the European Union". In Peter H. Solomon/Kaja Gadowska (Eds.): Legal Change in Post-Communist States. Progress, Reversions, Explanations. Stuttgart, ibidem, 2019, 55-96.
Kovács, Kriszta/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2019): “The Age of Constitutional Barbarism” VerfassungsBlog, 2019/9/7.
Wiener, Antje/Dunoff, L Jeffrey/Havercroft, Jonathan/Kumm, Mattias/Kovács, Kriszta (2019): "Global Constitutionalism as agora: Interdisciplinary encounters, cultural recognition and global diversity" Global Constitutionalism 8:1, 1-11.
Kovács, Kriszta (2019): "Can the European Union Save the Independent Judges?" LawLog, January 2019
Kovács, Kriszta/Kumm, Mattias/Steinbeis, Max/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2018): “Introduction: Constitutional Resilience and the German Grundgesetz” VerfassungsBlog, 2018/12/6.
Kovács, Kriszta/Scheppele, Kim Lane (2018): "The fragility of an independent judiciary: Lessons from Hungary and Poland - and the European Union" Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol 51, No 3, 189-200.
Kovács, Kriszta (2018): “Changing Constitutional Identity via Amendment”. In Paul Blokker (Ed.): Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond,Routledge, 2018, 199-217.
Kovács, Kriszta/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2018): “Standing on Stilts: Philosophical Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights”. In: Iulia Motoc/Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque/Krzysztof Wojtyczek (Eds.): New Developments in Constitutional Law. Essays in honour of Andras Sajó, Eleven, 2018, 239-258.
Kovács, Kriszta/Scheppele, Kim Lane (2017): “Hungary’s Post-Socialist Administrative Law Regimes” in Comparative Administrative Law, eds. Susan-Rose Ackerman, Peter L. Lindseth, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. 119-136. (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series)
Kovács, Kriszta (2017): “State of Exception: Springtime for the Schmittian Thoughts?” Diritto & questioni pubblicheVol 17, 2017/2, 163-182.
Kovács, Kriszta (2017): “The Rise of Ethnocultural Constitutional Identity in the Jurisprudence of the East Central European Courts,” German Law JournalVol 18, No 7, 2017, 1703-1720.
Kovács, Kriszta/Blokker, Paul (2015): “Unilateral Expansionism: Hungarian Citizenship and Franchise Politics and their Effects on the Hungarian-Romanian Relations”. In Dimitry Kochenov/Elena Basheska (Eds.): Good Neighbourliness in the European Legal Context, Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden, 2015, 136-159.
Kovács, Kriszta/Körtvélyesi, Zsolt/Nagy, Aliz (2015): “Margins of Nationality. External Ethnic Citizenship and Non-Discrimination” in Perspectives on Federalism Vol 7, (1)2015, 85-116.
Kovács, Kriszta/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2013): “Aufstieg und Krise. Wirkung der deutschen Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit auf Ungarn”, in Politik des Verfassungsrechts, Hg. Boulanger, Kranenpohl, Wrase, Nomos, Berlin, 2013, 308-332.
Kovács, Kriszta (2012): “Equality. The Missing Link”. In Gábor Attila Tóth (Ed.): Constitution for a Disunited Nation. On Hungary’s 2011 Fundamental Law, Budapest-New York, CEU Press, 2012, 171-195.
Kovács, Kriszta/Tóth, Gábor Attila (2011): “Hungary’s Constitutional Transformation”, 2011 European Constitutional Law Review 7, 183-203.