Marie-Pierre Granger, SPP/IR/Legal Studies faculty member, recently published a chapter in the Research Handbook in European Tort Law (Edward Elgar 2017). The Research Handbook on EU Tort Law focuses on the study of the law of tort/delict/non-contractual liability of the European Union and examines the institutional liability of the EU, Francovich liability, and liability arising from a variety of EU secondary legislation (directives/regulations).
Professor Andras Sajo's return to CEU from the European Court of Human Rights was marked by the publication of The Constitution of Freedom: An Introduction to Legal Constitutionalism, a co-authored volume by Andras Sajo and Renata Uitz.
On 11 January 2018 the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) organized a conference marking the release of a special issue of HAS’s legal quarterly Állam- és Jogtudomány edited by Professor Karoly Bard (Head of Department, CEU Legal Studies) and Associate Professor Petra Bard (ELTE; CEU visiting faculty).
Faculty member Marie-Pierre Granger, together with Emmanuel Guinchard (Northumbria University), recently published a book entitled The New EU Judiciary – An Analysis of Current Judicial reforms (Kluwer law International, The Netherlands, 2018).
The Department of Legal Studies will host for the fifth time a summer course on Constitution-building in Africa between July 2 and 13, 2018 in the framework of CEU's SUN program, in cooperation with International IDEA, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research.