New visiting researcher at iCourts - Max Steuer
Max Steuer (MA [Central European University], LLM [University of Cambridge], PhD [Comenius University]) is Associate Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, Jindal Global Law School, India, and Assistant Professor (on leave in Fall 2023) at Comenius University in Bratislava, Department of Political Science, Slovakia.
His interdisciplinary research focuses on questions of democracy protection and has been published in peer-reviewed journals, edited collections and encyclopedias including European Constitutional Law Review, Review of Central and East European Law, and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. In 2023, he is principal investigator for the project Illiberalism and the Constitution of the Slovak Republic: Political Discourse Analysis (Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Ministry of Education) and coordinator of the educational and awareness-raising initiative Talking Courts (US Embassy in Slovakia), among others. He has served as reviews editor of Volume 14 (2023) and guest co-editor of the special section on ‘Cultural Expertise and Litigation: Practices in South Asia and Europe’ for the Jindal Global Law Review.
While at iCourts, Max aims to develop the account of ‘republican constitutional pluralism’ (RCP) which argues that, if based in republican theory, constitutional pluralism-based arguments may be more resilient against abuse by illiberal actors, which has become one of the main sources of critique of constitutional pluralism as such. RCP has implications for the understanding of the relationship between European Union law and constitutionalism in the EU member states, among others. The broader project critically engages with the relationship between constitutional pluralism and differentiation in the EU as well.
Profiles at ResearchGate, LinkedIn.