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Constpol - Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group

The Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group provides an EUI researcher-led forum for everyone interested in constitutional law, democracy, and the interplay between law and politics. Constitutional Law is broadly understood as covering issues of fundamental rights, the separation of powers, and administrative law, as well as questions of legal theory, constitutional identity, federalism, and the relationship between national and supranational legal orders.

Constpol (short for the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group) is a forum for EUI researchers and visiting scholars interested in constitutional law, political and legal theory and intellectual history. The working group convenes a variety of events (book launches, roundtables, pre-read events, films) on a rolling basis throughout the year at Villa Salviati (map of campus). If you would like to present your work at the EUI with Constpol please write to constpol@eui.eu, after filling this Google Form (Requires Login; or by sending this Word form with attachments).

Visit the dedicated LinkedIn page.

First year researchers can meet the conveners of Constpol to learn more about our activities during the Working Group Fair that takes place in September every year.

Constpol is grateful for the support of Professors Silvia Suteu and Gráinne de Búrca.

A list of past events organised by Constpol can be found below.

Constpol Events 2025-2026

First Term

 

Second Term

  • 23.03.2026 — Maximilian Steinbes (Verfassungsblog) on writing blogposts (w/ the Rights WG).

  • 23.03.2026 — Panel discussion with Maximilian Steinbes (Verfassungsblog), Gráinne de Búrca (EUI), Kalypso Nicolaidis (EUI STG) and Anna Śledzińska-Simon (Wroclaw) on rule of law resilience and scholactivism.

 

Third Term

  • 15.04.2026 — Nazarii Stetsyk (Vienna) and Justice Oleksandr Vodiannikov (Constitutional Court of Ukraine) on Ukraine’s constitutional court under fire (Series: Contemporary Developments in Constitutional Law, I)