Biography

Appointed in September 2016 as Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, and in January 2018 as Director of Graduate Studies at the Law Department. His primary research interests are comparative constitutional law and international human rights. He has published several books and articles, as well as edited volumes on these topics in English, German and Hungarian. He joined EUI in 2016 after a teaching and research career (at the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, Princeton University in the USA, the European Masters Program in Human Rights and Democratization in Italy) as well as years of professional career as chief advisor to the President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Management Board and numerous other civic activities.

Research Projects and Working groups

• Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group

Supervisees

• Carolin Lerch
• Catriona Mullay
• Daniel Rozenberg
• Hilary Hogan
• Jakub Sawicki
• Katarzyna Krzyżanowska Nowicka
• Kir West-Hunter
• Maciej Krogel
• Oskar Polanski
• Paulina Milewska

Fields of expertise

• Comparative constitutional law
• Comparative and European constitutional law
• Globalisation of constitutionalism
• Constitution-making in democratic transitions
• Comparative judicial review

Recent research output

• HALMAI, Gábor (2021), From ‘illiberal democracy’ to autocracy : how Covid-19 helped to destroy the remnants of democracy in Hungary, Contribution to book
• HALMAI, Gábor (2021), Illiberal constitutionalism in Eastern and Central Europe, Contribution to book
• HALMAI, Gábor (2021), Aufstieg und Niedergang verfassungsrechtlicher Normenkontrolle in Ungarn und Polen, Contribution to book
• HALMAI, Gábor (2021), The pandemic and illiberal regimes, Contribution to book
• HALMAI, Gábor (2022), Authoritarian use of emergency power : the case of Hungary, Contribution to book
• HALMAI, Gábor (2021), Illiberalism in East Central Europe, Contribution to book

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