About the centre

CECS – Centre for European, Comparative, and Constitutional Legal Studies was first established in 2008, and has been prolonged for the fourth time from January 2024.

CECS has a special focus on contemporary societal challenges and crises, and they often have a global character. CECS is interested in how we uphold democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights, stability, resilience, and sustainability, during crises and other societal challenges.

 CECS is interested in Denmark in a European and global perspective, and in Europe in the World.

Constitutional Law, EU Law, and International Law, are central legal disciplines at CECS, complemented by Legal Cultural Studies and Political Science. Special attention is paid to the interplay and cross-fields between these academic disciplines

CECS presently has a special focus on the following five key research themes:

1. Contemporary Challenges to Democracy
2. Constitutions, Colonialism and Cultures
3. The Green Transition and Constitutionalism
4. Security Challenges and Legal order (s)
5. New and Emerging Technologies.

The center has a special focus on comparative methods, but dogmatic, empirical, interdisciplinary, critical legal studies, and “law and methods” are also applied in our research.

We are academically curious and open, and we “follow the problem” we are trying to solve across disciplines and apply the most relevant methods. Freedom of research and method are important values at CECS.