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Maynooth Centre for European and Eurasian Studies Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Mussi present a webinar
‘Rule of law within the EU: the ‘authoritarian equilibrium’ and how the EU should respond’
Recent years have seen an alarming decline in democratic standards in many parts of the world. Within the European Union, a rule of law crisis has accelerated. In both Hungary and Poland, we have witnessed the incremental dismantling of pluralist institutions, the 'capture' by ruling parties of judicial organs, and recurring attacks on the media and civil society, including universities. The European Union response to this developing 'authoritarian equilibrium' has been deeply unsatisfactory. Indeed, for much of the last decade, the European Commission has been described as 'missing in action', as EU norms have been progressively dismantled in Budapest and Warsaw.
This event puts the EU rule of law crisis under the microscope in a webinar that features contributions from two leading authorities in this field. Prof. R. Dan Keleman coined the term 'the authoritarian equilibrium' about the unfolding situation within the EU and has been one of the foremost academic analysts of the crisis as it has developed.
Speakers: Prof. R. Dan Kelemen (Rutgers University)
Moderator: Prof. John O’ Brennan (Maynooth University)
Prof. R. Dan Kelemen
R. Daniel Kelemen (Ph.D. Stanford) is Professor of Political Science and Law at Rutgers University, where he also holds the Jean Monnet Chair and has previously served as Director of the Center for European Studies. Kelemen's research focuses on the law and politics of the European Union. His 2011 monograph Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union (Harvard University Press) won the Best Book Award from the European Union Studies Association. He is also author or editor of five other books including The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics, as well as dozens of book chapters and articles. Prior to Rutgers, Kelemen was Fellow in Politics, Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, visiting fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University, and a Fulbright Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. An internationally recognized analyst of EU affairs, Kelemen regularly publishes in Foreign Affairs and advises policy makers including in the US State Department and Congress. His 2020 article in the Journal of European Public Policy mapped the development of the 'authoritarian equilibrium' within the European Union.