Darren Seiffert is an S.J.D. Candidate in Comparative Constitutional Law (Department of Legal Studies) at Central European University (CEU). He holds an LL.M degree in Comparative Constitutional Law from CEU and Master’s degrees in International Relations and Public Policy from Andrassy Universität Budapest and Passau University. Under the supervision of Professor Renata Uitz, Darren’s doctoral project shows how a securitization perspective adds new insights to traditional constitutional analysis. He explores the implications of switching from the assumption of objective security to the assumption that security threats are subjective, a political choice and the product of inter-subjective construction. With this shift from objective to subjective security, his work contributes to ongoing discussions about executive accountability in security situations by recalibrating and reassessing the weight of executive arguments.
Before joining CEU for doctorate studies, Darren worked as a Policy Advisor at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH), where he advised the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development on its human rights policy.