IR TALKS 6 – Rule of Law and Democracy under Siege
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Date: 05 May 2025 17:20-18:50
Location: Corvinus University Budapest, building C, 202
Language of the event: English
The upcoming session of the IR TALKS series organized by the Department of International Relations and Transparency International Hungary will focus on the questions of the politics of anti-corruption and the state of the rule of law and democracy in Europe and the United States of America.
According to scholars of democratic backsliding like Kim Lane Scheppele, the recent siege of the rule of law in the United States mimics authoritarian tendencies experienced in Hungary since the previous decade. Therefore, it is relevant to compare European and US challenges posed to the rule of law and democracy and discuss how applied political theory can face these challenges in the fields of anti-corruption, judicial institutions, and the separation of powers. The event provides an opportunity to exchange ideas on the American and European experiences.
We are pleased to host this conversation with the following panellists:
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Matthew Stephenson (Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)
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József Péter Martin (Executive Director, Transparency International Hungary; senior lecturer, Corvinus University of Budapest)
Moderator: Zoltán Kelemen (Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations; instructor of the course Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe at Corvinus University of Budapest)
IR TALKS is a series of guest and roundtable talks organised by the Department of International Relations at Corvinus University to make sense of the world we live in at a time of turbulent international politics.