Dr Michal Ovádek

Lecturer in European Institutions, Politics and Policy
Room: 2.02 36-38 Gordon Square
Email: m.ovadek@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in European Institutions, Politics and Policy at UCL. Prior to joining, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Between 2019 and 2021, I worked as a political advisor in the European Parliament. I obtained my PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium.

Research

Most of my research is focused on the interaction of law and politics in the European Union, both in the judicial and the legislative arena. I am particularly interested in the decision-making of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the presence of institutional and political constraints. I also maintain an interest in judicial politics more generally, and in regional and domestic politics in Central and Eastern Europe.

Publications

Journal articles

2022

• Ovadek, M. (2022) ‘The Making of Landmark Rulings in the European Union: The Case of National Judicial Independence’, Journal of European Public Policy, 30(6), pp. 1119–1141.
• Yeung, T. Y-C., Ovadek, M. and Lampach, N. (2022) ‘Time Efficiency as a Measure of Court Performance: Evidence from the Court of Justice of the European Union’, European Journal of Law and Economics, 53(2), pp. 209–234.

2021

• Ovadek, M., Dyevre, A. and Wigard, K. (2021) ‘Analysing EU Treaty-Making and Litigation With Network Analysis and Natural Language Processing’, Frontiers in Physics, 9.
• Ovádek, M. (2021) ‘Facilitating Access to Data on European Union Laws’, Political Research Exchange, 3(1).
• Ovádek, M. (2021) ‘Procedural Politics Revisited: Institutional Incentives and Jurisdictional Ambiguity in EU Competence Disputes’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(6), pp. 1381–1399.
• Ovádek, M. (2021) ‘Supranationalism, Constrained? Locating the Court of Justice on the EU Integration Dimension’, European Union Politics, 22(1), pp. 46–69.

2020

• Ovadek, M. (2020) ‘“Popular tribunes” and Their Agendas: Topic Modelling Slovak Presidents’ Speeches 1993-2020’, East European Politics, 37(2), pp. 214–238.
• Ovadek, M., Lampach, N. and Dyevre, A. (2020) ‘What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging Daily News Coverage to Measure Issue Attention in the European Union’, European Union Politics, 21(2), pp. 204–232.

2019

• Ovadek, M. and Willemyns, I. (2019) ‘International Law of Customs Unions: Conceptual Variety, Legal Ambiguity and Diverse Practice’, European Journal of International Law, 30(2), pp. 361–389.
• Ovadek, M. (2019) ‘The Apolitical Lawyer: Experimental Evidence of a Framing Effect’, European Journal of Law and Economics, 48(3), pp. 385–415.
• Ovadek, M. and Raina, A. (2019) ‘The Evolution of EU Trade Law Through the Prism of Competence: A Quantitative, Longitudinal Perspective’. Journal of World Trade, 53(3), pp. 489–508.

2018

• Ovadek, M. (2018) ‘The Rule of Law in the EU: Many Ways Forward but Only One Way to Stand Still?’, Journal of European Integration, 40(4), pp. 495–503.

Teaching

I teach courses related to European integration, quantitative research methods, and judicial politics.