Speaker: Dr Michal Ovádek, Lecturer in European Institutions, Politics and Policy at UCL
Chair: Dr Tawhida Ahmed, Reader in Law, City, University of London
Abstract
Much of legal academia operates outside the increasingly interdisciplinary methodological discourse in political science, economics and sociology.
Is law’s methodological exceptionalism warranted?
This workshop introduces mainstream social science research designs and demonstrates their usefulness in the study of law and courts.
The workshop will draw on examples from research on the Court of Justice of the European Union.
About the speaker
Dr Michal Ovádek is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in European Institutions, Politics and Policy at University College London (UCL).
Prior to joining UCL, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Between 2019 and 2021, he worked as a political advisor in the European Parliament. He obtained his PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium.
Most of Dr Ovádek's research is focused on the interaction of law and politics in the European Union, both in the judicial and the legislative arena.
He is particularly interested in the decision-making of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the presence of institutional and political constraints.
He also maintains an interest in judicial politics more generally, and in regional and domestic politics in Central and Eastern Europe.
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