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This week, we welcomed PhD student Viktória Alžbeta Sutórisová to talk about her paper on the Venice Commission's evolving role in reforms of the Central & East European countries' judiciaries, shedding light on the impact of judicial councils as both safeguards & gateways for external control🏛️

Happy to welcome the PhD student Arnisa Tepelija from CEU this week. Her thesis chapter "Building judicial independence through Europeanization: the case of Albania" 🇦🇱 brought a lively discussion to the JUSTIN team.

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting Alisher Juzgenbayev from Northwestern at our JUSTIN seminar. His paper 'Framing the Judiciary' sparked a lively discussion among the team. Alisher's paper was recently published in the Journal of Law and Courts. Check the link below ⬇️

📢Exciting first joint meeting between JUSTIN team & the BOLD Lab! 🎯We introduced our research areas, explored shared interests & discussed potential synergies for future collaboration. Thanks to Klára Šeďová & Roman Švaříček for hosting us. Looking forward to what’s next! 🚀

💶⚖️The conditionality mechanism was built on a simple but splendid idea: you don’t get the money if you don’t play by the rules. That doesn't work for Hungary. It lost 1 billion Euros but still doesn't plan to change behaviour Attila Vincze explains in Deutsche Richterzeitung why.

🔵Day 1 of TRIIAL 2 at Villa Gröbe The CEELI Institute Panelists Zdenek Kühn Jaras Gwizdak Ágnes Kovács Simon Drugda debated the fine line between judicial independence & extrajudicial activities—judges in politics, academia & public debate📢 Keynote speech David Kosař & Katarína Šipulová

🚀 Last week, our research seminar featured PhD student Lucie Vodvářková who gave us an insight into her dissertation project on the role of gender in the selection of judges for constitutional courts. Next presentation for Lucie - University of Austin, Texas 🇺🇸 Best of luck! 🍀

🎙️ We hosted Jakub Harasta from the Institute of Law and Technology and Research, for a seminar on LLMs in judiciary research, discussing their use, limitations, and data preprocessing. As we explore their future role in our research, understanding these aspects is key.

📢 Workshop Recap & New Article! Our recent workshop on the future of justice was a huge success! 🎉 Check out our new article by Viktória Alžbeta Sutórisová for a summary of the event and the insights shared. Don’t miss it! 🔗 justin.law.muni.cz/en/news/worksh…

🤝Last Thursday, JUSTIN hosted an expert forum that brought together researchers from our INFINITY AND NET-ROL projects and guests from the ILLIBERAL project for a day of rich intellectual exchange. Many thanks to our guests and colleagues for a thought-provoking exchange!

🎉Marína Urbániková received yesterday at the Faculty of Social Sciences the 'Award of Ivo Možný' in the area of social contribution' for actively bringing research findings on public service media & the status of women in journalism into the public debate. Congrats, Marína 👏

On Thursday, JUSTIN members spoke at the conference 'European Court of Human Rights and Climate Change' at the Faculty of Law in Brno. David Kosař joined a panel on courts & future generations Viktória Alžbeta Sutórisová Michal Kovalčík and Patrick Leisure discussed ECtHR climate complaints🌍⚖️

We were pleased to host Michal Soltes from the Charles University, who presented "The Ripple Effect of Judicial Harshness". His research shows how an initial harsh sentence can lead to harsher future sentences—a ripple effect with lasting impact. 🎯

📘Great turnout for our book launch with Harry Hobbs from UNSWLaw on Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens! From fringe legal theories to far-right extremism, the book tackles the global rise of pseudolaw and its real-world harms. Thanks to all who joined!