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 obtained his PhD in 2024. For his doctoral 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.

From February 2026 to January 2029, Jaka will be away on research leave, working on his postdoctoral research project titled »Is European Law European? Exploring the Structure of the Social Field of EU Legal Scholarship and its Influence on the Construction of Meaning in EU Law (PANEULEX)«. PANEULEX is financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency through the MSCA PF complementary funding scheme and is jointly hosted by University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law and iCourts Center of Excellence at Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Kukavica, J. (2026) The Constitutional Contours of EU Crisis Law, in : European Journal of Risk Regulation 17(1), 1—19.

Kukavica, J. (2026) Regulation, in: Biondi, A., Stefan, O. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kukavica, J. (2026) Directive, in: Biondi, A., Stefan, O. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Cerar, M., Zagorc, S., Kos, M., Kukavica, J. (2025) Analiza ureditve področja integritete v športu, Inštitut za primerjalno pravo, Ljubljana.

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

De Witte, F., Krisztián, A., Kukavica, J. et al., (2024) Decoding Judicial Cross-Citations: How do European Judges Engage with Foreign Case Law?, in: American Journal of Comparative Law 72(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(2), 869-879.

Is European Law European? Exploring the Structure of the Social Field of EU Legal Scholarship and its Influence on the Construction of Meaning in EU Law (PANEULEX). Raziskovalni projekt ARIS (MN-0037).

Vključevanje pravnega izrazja evropskega prava v slovenski pravni sistem. Raziskovalni program ARIS (P5-0217).

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.