List of contributors

Professor Dr Martin Belov (editor) (University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’)

Martin Belov is Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia ‘St.

Professor Dr Violeta BesireviC (Union University, Belgrade, Serbia)

Violeta BesireviC is a tenured Professor of Law at Union University Law School Belgrade, a Research Associate at Central European University in Budapest, an Affiliate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Center for Law and Pluralism, and Editor-in-Chief of Pravni Zapisi, Union University Law School Review. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the European Public Law Organization and Fund for Open Society, Belgrade. Violeta Besirevic holds an L.L.M. and an S.J.D. in Comparative Constitutional Law from the Central European University, Budapest, and a B.A. from Belgrade University Law School. Professor Besirevic was awarded a Fulbright stipend in 2012. She was a visiting scholar at NYU Law School, George Washington University Law School, Brigham Young University Law School, and ASSER Institute in The Hague. Professor Besirevic works in the field of Constitutional Law, EU Constitutional Law, European Human Rights Law, and Bioethics. Her recent works include ‘Making Sense of the Political Question Doctrine: The Case of Kosovo,’ Review of Central and East European Law (2020, forthcoming) and New Politics of Decisionism (ed.), Eleven International Pub­lishing, The Hague, 2019.

Professor Dr Maria Lucia Di Bitonto (LUISS ‘Guido Carli’, Rome, Italy)

Maria Lucia Di Bitonto is full Professor of Criminal Procedure Law. She is Associate Professor at the School of Law in the University of Camerino. She is Adjunct Professor of Criminal Procedure Law at the Department of Law of the Luiss Guido Carli University, where she is also Adjunct Professor of Corporate Criminal Law and Procedure. She wrote extensively on the subject of criminal procedure. Her studies are focused on criminal evidence, public prosecutor, human rights and criminal procedure, pretrial detention, defensive investiga­tions, a defendant’s right to be silent, criminal proceedings against corpora­tions, due process of law and corporate criminal liability.

Professor Dr Djordje Gardasevic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Djordje Gardasevic is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Zagreb Faculty of Law (Croatia). He earned his L.L.M. degree at the Central Eur­opean University in Budapest (thesis title: ‘Independence and Impartiality of Courts - Article 6 of the ECHR’) and his Ph.D. at the Zagreb Faculty of Law (thesis title: ‘Restrictions of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in States of Emergency’). He participated, among other events, at the 7th and 9th World Congresses of the International Association for Constitutional Law (Athens, 2007, Oslo 2014), the 22nd and 23rd Congresses of the International Political Science Association - IPSA (Madrid, 2012, Montreal, 2014), the APSA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, 2015) and the ASN World Conventions (New York, 2017, 2018 and 2019). His research interests include: states of emergency, fundamental rights and freedoms, constitutional theory and com­parative constitutional law.

Professor Dr Bianca Selejan-Gutan (University of Sibiu, Romania)

Bianca Selejan-Gutan - Ph.D. (Bucharest), L.L.M (Nottingham) - is a Professor of Constitutional Law and of Human Rights Law at the Lucian Blaga Uni­versity of Sibiu, Romania, Faculty of Law. Her main areas of research are

List of contributors xi judicial review, comparative constitutional law and European law of human rights. She is a member of the advisory board of the ICON-S CEE Chapter, vice-president of the Romanian Association of Constitutional Law and a member of the editorial board of the Romanian Journal of Comparative Law. She is the author of the book The Constitution of Romania: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, 2016) and of numerous other books, articles and chapters in the above-mentioned fields.

Dr Hadeel S. Abu Hussein (University of Oxford, UK)

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Professor Dr Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka (‘Nicolas Copernicus’ University of Torun, Poland)

Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka is Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus Uni­versity in Torurn Previously she worked as a legal clerk at the Constitutional Court of Poland (2008-2017). She was visiting researcher at Georg-August- Universitat Gottingen (2006), Freie Universitat Berlin (2010) and Libera Uni- versita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome (2020). She was re:constitution fellow 2019/20. Her research interest covers comparative con­stitutional law, European constitutionalism and legal philosophy. She has pub­lished on topics such as the impact of the European integration on constitutional law of the EU Member States, judicial review, transitional justice and rule of law in Europe.

Dr Stefan Schlegel (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Stefan Schlegel is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Public Law at the University of Bern (Switzerland), where he is working on his second book on the constitutional guarantee of property. He obtained his master’s degree from the University of Zurich and his Ph.D. in law from the University of Bern.

Previously to his current position, Stefan was a Visiting Researcher at the Uni­versity of Toronto and Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Multiethnic and Multireligious Societies in Gottingen (Germany). Among Stefan’s main research interests are immigration law, the relationship of international and domestic law, and the distributional effects of public law.

Professor Dr Mauro Zamboni (University of Stockholm, Sweden)

Mauro Zamboni is Professor of legal theory at Stockholm University, Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Uni­versity of London (UK), and Korea Legislation Research Institute Global Research Fellow (South Korea). His fields of interest are legislative studies and the relationships between law and politics (mostly from a legal theoretical perspective).