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B.A., LL.B. (Comenius University, Slovakia)

M.A. (Central European University)

LL.M. (University of Cambridge)

Ph.D. (Comenius University, Slovakia)

 

Dr. Max Steuer

Associate Professor

Email msteuer@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0001-7638-5865
Key Expertise democracy research (theory and empirics with emphasis on militant democracy); constitutional adjudication in Central Europe; freedom of expression, constitutionalism in the European Union (European rule of law, constitutional pluralism); cultural expertise; jurisprudence (particularly legal principles and legal interpretation); qualitative methods (parliamentary discourse analysis, semi-structured interviewing); studies of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity

B.A., LL.B. (Comenius University, Slovakia)

M.A. (Central European University)

LL.M. (University of Cambridge)

Ph.D. (Comenius University, Slovakia)

 

Biography

Max Steuer’s research focuses on the science of democracy beyond disciplines, constitutional adjudication in a comparative perspective (with an emphasis on constitutional courts), freedom of expression, and constitutionalism in the European Union. His scholarship appeared in European Constitutional Law Review, European Journal of Risk Regulation, International Journal of Human Rights, Social Science & Medicine and other journals, edited volumes and encyclopaedias.

In addition to serving as Associate Professor at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Jindal Global Law School (2023–, Assistant Professor 2020–2023), Max is Principal Investigator at Comenius University in Bratislava, Department of Political Science, for the projects HARVEST – Harvesting Judicial Reservoirs of Resilience to Autocratization for Rebuilding Democracy in the Visegrad Four (Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia as part of Next Generation EU, 2024–2026) and Illiberalism and the Constitution of the Slovak Republic: Political Discourse Analysis (Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Ministry of Education, 2023–2025), as well as Management Committee Member of the COST Action K-Peritia (‘Cultural Expertise Junior Network’, 2023–2027) and coordinator of the educational and awareness-raising initiative Talking Courts (US Embassy in Slovakia, 2022–2024), among others. He has contributed to several projects within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. A member of several academic associations in political science and public law, such as the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S) and the International Political Science Association, Max was visiting researcher at academic institutions including in Austria (Central European University in Vienna), Denmark (University of Copenhagen), Germany (WZB Berlin Social Science Center), Sweden (Örebro University), the UK (University of Oxford and University of Liverpool), and the USA (Washington State University as a Fulbright scholarship recipient). 

Last updated: September 2024.

Jurisprudence (core)

International Relations (core)

Comparative Constitutional Adjudication (elective)

European Constitutionalism (elective)

Theories of Democracy: An Introduction (elective)

2024—2025: re:constitution Fellowship

2024: Aktion Austria – Slovakia Postdoctoral Scholarship

2022: Jan Hus Educational Foundation Scholarship

2019: Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies

2017—2018: Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship

Central European University, Department of Legal Studies, 02—07/2024 (Aktion Austria – Slovakia Postdoctoral Scholarship)

Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 01/2024 (Residence grant for visiting scholars using the IISL library)

University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, iCourts, 12/2023 (University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law (travel grant) & O.P. Jindal Global University)

University of Liverpool, School of Law and Social Justice, 01—02/2023 (International Visiting Fellowship Programme, funding by the Jan Hus Educational Foundation Scholarship)

Washington State University, School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 01—06/2019 (Fulbright graduate scholarship)

WZB Berlin Social Science Center, 07—11/2018 (National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic)

University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 03—06/2018 (Tatra Bank Foundation Scholarship)

2024 (online first). Towards understanding constitutional court resilience vis-à-vis autocratization: An institutionalist approach. In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series.

2024 (with A.L. Vieira Costa and A.M. Figueroa). Massive open online learning for democracy in Political Science: Learners’ reactions to connectivist elements. In: Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 10, no. 101113.

2024. Cultural Expertise, Hate Speech, and the Far Right: The Slovak Mazurek Case. In: Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, 56(2), pp. 215-235.

2024. States of Emergency, Simultaneous Overreach and Underreach, and the COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic. In: European Journal of Risk Regulation, 15(1), pp. 87-101.

2024. Judicial self-perceptions and the separation of powers in varied political regime contexts: The constitutional courts in Hungary and Slovakia. In: European Politics and Society, 25(3), pp. 537-555.

2024 (with M. Florczak-Wątor, F. Gárdos-Orosz and J. Malíř). States of Emergency and Human Rights Protection: The Theory and Practice of the Visegrad Countries. Routledge.

2024 (with E. Láštic). The Slovak Constitutional Court: The Promise of Dworkinian Adjudication? In: Pócza, K. (ed.). Constitutional Review in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective. Routledge, pp. 244-273.

2023 (with M. Kovanič). Fighting against COVID-19: With or without politics? In: Social Science & Medicine, 337, no. 116297.

2023. Democracy, Procedural and Social Rights, and Constitutional Courts in Hungary and Slovakia. In: Constitutional Review, 9(1), pp. 28-76.

2023 (with K. Šipulová). From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity. In: Kovács, K. (ed.). The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe. Hart, pp. 81-104.

2023. Cultural Expertise and Extreme Speech. In: Holden, L. (ed.). Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights: A Comprehensive Guide. Routledge, pp. 158-165.

2023. Rule of Law – The Concept. In: Cremades, J. – Hermida, C. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism. Springer.

2023. D. Jancic (ed): The Changing Role of Citizens in EU Democratic Governance (Book review). In: European Law Review, 48(4), pp. 496-498.

2023 (2019 as online first). Democratic Security; Militant Democracy. In: Romaniuk, S. – Thapa, M. – Márton, P. (eds.). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Springer, pp. 270-276, 954-959.

2022. The Role of Judicial Craft in Improving Democracy's Resilience: The Case of Party Bans in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia. In: European Constitutional Law Review, 18(3), pp. 440-465.

2022. Authoritarian Populism, Conceptions of Democracy, and the Hungarian Constitutional Court: The Case of Political Participation. In: International Journal of Human Rights, 26(7), pp. 1207-1229. (Also in Grover, S. (ed.). 2023. Judicial Activism in an Age of Populism. Routledge, Chapter 4.)

2022 (with M. Kovanič). Militarization of Democracy in Slovakia. In: Rak, J., Bäcker, R. (eds.). Neo-militant Democracies in Post-Communist Member States of the European Union. Routledge, pp. 165-180.

2022. To End Sleepwalking: The Constitutional Potential of the Conference on the Future of Europe. In: Horák, F., Řepa, K. (eds.). European Constitutionalism and the Virus of Distrust. Edited Volume from the International Conference held in Prague, Czech Republic on April 27-28, 2022. Leges, pp. 57-77.

2022 (with R. Plancarte-Escobar). Editorial: Towards Improved Understanding of Students and Junior Scholars as Authors, Reviewers, Editors and Leaders in Scholarly Publishing. In: Learned Publishing, 35(3), pp. 306-307.

2022 (with R. Plancarte-Escobar). Case Study: Junior Journals in Politics and International Relations. In: Learned Publishing, 35(3), pp. 385-392.

2022. R. Bellamy, S. Kröger and M. Lorimer: Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy (Book review). In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 60(5), pp. 1531-1532.

2022. J. M. Kovács and B. Trencsényi (eds): Brave New Hungary. Mapping the ‘System of National Cooperation’ (Book review). In: Europe-Asia Studies, 74(1), pp. 170-171.

2021. C. Rauchegger and A. Wallerman (eds.): The Eurosceptic Challenge: National Implementation and Interpretation of EU Law (Book review). In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(1), pp. 185-186.

2020 (with J. Štiavnický). The Many Faces of Law-Making by Constitutional Courts with Extensive Review Powers: The Slovak Case. In: Florczak-Wątor, M. (ed.). Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts. Routledge, pp. 183-200.

2020. Militant Democracy and COVID-19: Protecting the Regime, Protecting Rights? In: Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs, 2, pp. 131-145.

2020. A. Malkopoulou and A. Kirshner (eds.): Militant Democracy and Its Critics—Populism, Parties, Extremism (Book review). In: Democratization, 28(4), pp. 861-863.

2019. Militant Democracy on the Rise: The Consequences of Legal Restrictions on Extreme Speech in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. In: Review of Central and East European Law, 44(2), pp. 162-201.

2019. Newspaper Portrayal of the EU in Crises in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary: The Union’s Imagined Linearity? In: Bátora, J., Fossum, J. E. (eds.). Towards a Segmented European Political Order. Routledge, pp. 199-224

2019 [updated in 2024]. The Hungarian Constitutional Court (with K. Kelemen); The Slovak Constitutional Court. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press.

2018. Constitutional Pluralism and the Slovak Constitutional Court: The Challenge of European Union Law. In: The Lawyer Quarterly, 8(2), pp. 108-128.

2018 (with E. Láštic). The Slovak Constitutional Court: The Third Legislator? In: Pócza, K. (ed.). Constitutional Politics and the Judiciary. Decision Making in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 184-213.

2017. The (Non)political Taboo: Why Democracies Ban Holocaust Denial. In: Slovak Sociological Review, 49(6), pp. 673-693.

2016. Governments Speak by Their Silence, Too. An Interview with Péter Molnár. Part I & Part II. In: Café Babel.

2016. The International Helping Hand? The Impact of the Council of Europe on Policies towards ‘Hate Speech’ in Slovakia. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Budapest) Working Paper.

2015. A Subordinate Issue? An Analysis of Parliamentary Discourse on Freedom of Speech in Slovakia. In: Czech Journal of Political Science, 1/2015, pp. 55-74.

2015. A Dual Legitimacy for a Democratic European Community? Jürgen Habermas and Constituent Power in the European Union. In: International Centre for Democratic Transition (Budapest) Paper Series.

2015. Human Rights and Human Well-Being Around the Globe. In: Global Politics [ISSN 1213–7685].
Email msteuer@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0001-7638-5865
Key Expertise democracy research (theory and empirics with emphasis on militant democracy); constitutional adjudication in Central Europe; freedom of expression, constitutionalism in the European Union (European rule of law, constitutional pluralism); cultural expertise; jurisprudence (particularly legal principles and legal interpretation); qualitative methods (parliamentary discourse analysis, semi-structured interviewing); studies of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity
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