New visitor at iCourts - Jaka Kukavica

Jaka Kukavica is a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research interests are in the fields of constitutional law, EU law (and its history), human rights law, and comparative law. Jaka worked as a researcher on the 'The Court of Justice in the Archives' project at the Academy of European Law and the 'Judicial Networks between Supreme Courts in Europe' project led by Mathias Siems. In 2021, he was an International and Comparative Law Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School. Jaka is the Head of Section for European Law at the European Journal of Legal Studies and he previously served as an Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal. Before commencing his doctoral project, he studied law at Ljubljana and Cambridge.

At iCourts, Jaka will work towards finalising the manuscript of his doctoral thesis, in which he examines the relationship between the structure of various multilevel polities and the types of consensus analysis domestic and international courts use when interpreting legal norms. He will also be working on Urška Šadl’s Under the Influence project.