Mohor Fajdiga

Mohor Fajdiga is a researcher and a teaching assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law. After a 15-month judicial traineeship at the Higher Court of Ljubljana, he joined the Faculty of Law in 2020. In 2021, he passed the State Law Examination. His research focuses on the chilling effect and freedom of expression of judges, as well as on judicial independence and judicial selection procedures. He is currently involved in two research projects concerning the judiciary.

FAJDIGA, M. (forthcoming): Chilling Effect or no Chilling Effect: To Be or Not to Be for Freedom of Expression of Judges before the European Court of Human Rights, in CASAROSA, F., FAJDIGA, M., MORARU, M. (eds.), Freedom of Expression of Judges: European and National Perspectives, Routledge.

FAJDIGA, M. (2024): Chilling effect: Turning the poison into an antidote for fundamental rights in Europe, in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1023263X241239019

FAJDIGA, M., ZAGORC, S. (2023): Freedom or feardom of expression of judges? : exploring the "chilling effect" on judicial speech, in: European constitutional law review 19 (2023) 2 249–270. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019623000093  

FAJDIGA, M. (2021): Izbira Sodnega sveta : ignorantia rationis nocet? v: Zbornik znanstvenih razprav 81 (2021) 1, 63-83. https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=140826 

Fajdiga, M., Kos, U. A., Oprčkal (et al.) (2021): Heightened scrutiny of colonial consent according to the Chagos Advisory Opinion: Pandora's box reopened?, in: BURRI, T., TRINIDAD, J., HOFSTETTER, D. (eds.), The International Court of Justice and decolonisation : new directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 207-230. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108893770.011 

ZAGORC, S., FAJDIGA, M. (2018): The principle of consistent interpretation in Slovenia : inconsistently consistent or consistently inconsistent?, in: Franklin, C. N. K. (ed.), The effectiveness and application of EU and EEA law in national courts : principles of consistent interpretation. Cambridge, Antwerp, Chicago: Intersentia, 411–449.

JUDGMERIT: Izbira sodnikov pod drobnogledom: sodniška neodvisnost, zakonitost in odlike / Judicial Selection under Scrutiny: Judicial Independence, lawfulness and Merit, Raziskovalni projekt ARIS / ARIS Research project (J5-4583). http://www.judgmerit.si/   

TRIIAL 2: TRust, Independence, Impartiality and Accountability of Legal professionals under the EU Charter - part 2, funded by the European Commission (Project no. 101089737). https://cjc.eui.eu/projects/triial-2/