News & Events

Dr Agnieszka Kubal presented at the When Justice Migrants workshop. Her talk has since been published in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civil and Political Studies: ‘Dissenting Consciousness: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Russian Migration Cases before the European Court of Human Rights’.

Dr Kubal and Denis Shedov represented the HuRiEE team at the 2023 BASEES conference in Glasgow. Dr Kubal presented a paper on ‘Women’s complaint to ECtHR as a window into the Polish society’ and Denis Shedov participated in a panel on Russia’s exit from the Council of Europe. 

Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka (supported by Prof Birgit Apitzsch, Bochum and Prof Ramona Coman, Brussels) have been awarded follow up funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers Symposia for their project on ‘Comparing Judicial Activism’.

Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka presented at the 2023 Annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law: Law, Society, and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures. Dr Kubal presented early research from the HuRiEE project on a sociological profile of court applicants and Dr Huszka discussed legal mobilization for language rights of the Hungarian minority in Romania.

Dr Kubal organised the ‘Rule of law Crisis in Poland'. A public lecture with Professor Adam Bodnar (SWPS)’ event at SSEES.

Dr Kubal and Dr Huszka, together with the project partners Professor Birgit Apitzsch and Professor Ramona Coman attended the launch of the ‘Judicial Activism as a modality of resistance and a form of communication’ project in Brussels. Dr Kubal introduced the keynote speaker for the conference, Professor John Morijn.

Dr Kubal was a guest speaker for the keynote plenary discussion at the 22^nd Annual Alexantieri Conference in Helsinki. The conference centred on discussions of ‘Decolonizing Space in the Global East: Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices’.

The HuRiEE team conducted our third team away day and met in Berlin to finalise the publication strategy for the project. Watch this space for updates! 

The project PI, Dr Kubal, presented at the 2023 ASEEES annual convention in Philadelphia as part of a panel on ‘Access to Justice: Challenges in Russia, Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan’. Dr Kubal reflected on the ways that Polish citizens mobilised through the European Court of Human Rights in response to authoritarian backsliding following the infamous abortion law.