Jaka Kukavica

Jaka Kukavica is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law. He obtained his LL.M. at the University of Cambridge (2017) and the European University Institute (2018), where he defended his doctoral thesis in 2024. While at EUI, Jaka worked as a researcher on multiple research projects in the fields of comparative law, european human rights law, and history of EU law. For his dissertation titled "Structural Values in Judicial Reasoning: Consensus Analysis in Constitutional and Supranational Contexts", Jaka has been awarded the 2025 Mauro Cappelletti Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in Comparative and European Law. He has held visiting positions at the Georgetown Law Center, University of Michigan Law School, iCourts Center of Excellence at University of Copenhagen, Utrecht University School of Law, and the Australian National University College of Law. His research interests are in the fields of European constitutional law, EU law, European human rights law, and comparative constitutional law. Jaka currently serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Legal Studies, where he worked as Head of Section for European law from 2020-2023, and has previously served as an editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal.

Kukavica, J., (2024): Common Constitutional Traditions: A Story of Genesis and Normative Transformations, in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 31 (2022) 2, 234–253.

De Witte, F., Krisztián, A., Kukavica, J. et al., (2024): Decoding Judicial Dialogue: How do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?, in: American Journal of Comparative Law 72 (2024) 2, 380–427.

Sahadžić, M., Kos, M., Kukavica, J. et al. (eds.), Accommodating Diversity in Multilevel Constitutional Orders: Legal Mechanisms of Divergence and Convergence. Abingdon, New York: Routledge (2023).

Kukavica, J. (2023): Towards a General Typology of Consensus Analysis, in: Sahadžić, M., Kos, M., Kukavica, J. et al. (eds.), Accommodating Diversity in Multilevel Constitutional Orders: Legal Mechanisms of Divergence and Convergence. Abingdon, New York: Routledge.

Kukavica, J. (2022): The Garden Grows Lusher: Completing the Narratives on Opinion 1/75, in: European Papers 6 (2022) 2, 869-879.

NOPSI: Normativna in Organizacijska analiza področja odprtih Podatkov v Sloveniji. Raziskovalni projekt ARIS (V5-2389).

The Court of Justice in the Archives. Raziskovalni projekt Academy of European Law in European University Institute Research Council.

Judicial Networks between Supreme Courts in Europe. Raziskovalni projekt European Univeristy Institute.