Comparative Constitutional Law

Overview

Key Features

The core curriculum centers on fundamental issues in comparative constitutional law regarding constitution-making and constitutional design, constitutional government (horizontal and vertical separation of powers), and constitutional rights protection in leading, emerging and declining constitutional democracies around the world. The curriculum covers historic and current developments in all major legal systems.

As with all programs at the Department of Legal Studies, the Comparative Constitutional Law program at Central European University (CEU) c is committed to research-based teaching. Areas of research and teaching by full-time faculty include the transition to (and from) democracy and the rule of law, constitution-making in historical perspective and in on-going constitution-building processes, comparative constitutional adjudication, civil and political rights in established and emerging democracies, issues of equality and non-discrimination, socio-economic rights, biomedical law and reproductive rights, as well as European constitutionalism. Courses by our part-time (visiting) faculty build on this core and permit us to introduce courses on newly emerging constitutional developments as they arise. The program also benefits from close cooperation with other departmental Master’s programs via two optional thematic specializations on "global rule of law" and "justice and equality".

Accreditation

• Program approved and registered by the New York State Education Department
• Program registered as a non-degree post-graduate specialization program by the Hungarian Educational Authority (HEA)

• Program accredited by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (AQ-Austria)