Jaka Kukavica

Jaka Kukavica is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law since 2022. 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 the EUI, Jaka worked as a researcher on the 'The Court of Justice in the Archives' project (led by Marise Cremona, Claire Kilpatrick, Pieter Schlenker, and Joanne Scott) and the 'Judicial Networks between Supreme Courts in Europe' (led by Mathias Siems). He has held visiting positions at the Georgetown Law Center, University of Michigan Law School, iCourts Center of Excellence at University of Copenhagen, and Utrecht University School of Law. In the 2024 Winter Term, he will work as a Visiting Fellow at 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. He 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 previously served as an editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal.

Kukavica, J., (forthcoming): Common Constitutional Traditions: A Story of Genesis and Normative Transformations, in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.

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

Sahadžić, M., Kos, M., Kukavica, J. et al. (eds.) (2023): 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.