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Katalin Capannini-Kelemen

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

Email: katalin.kelemen@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 301282

Room: L2502

Research subject

Legal Science

About Katalin Capannini-Kelemen

Katalin Capannini-Kelemen is Associate Professor in Law. Her primary area of research is comparative law, in particular comparative constitutional law, judicial reasoning, judicial dissent, East-Central European and Nordic legal systems. Her current focus is constitutional reasoning, private-rule making and European governance of AI.

From September 2021 she heads the research project "Nordic exceptionalism? Mapping constitutional reasoning in Nordic countries" (Nordic CONREASON Project) sponsored by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond with 5.8 million SEK. The project involves five Nordic constitutional scholars, a statistician and an international advisory board.

Katalin teaches comparative law, comparative constitutional law and EU constitutional law. In 2019, she coordinated the revision of the Legal Science Programme with an International Approach, which got a new, digital specialisation. In 2020-2021, she was the coordinator of the Legal Science Programme.

Prior to her appointment at Örebro University in 2010, she graduated in law from Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, with a master thesis in comparative criminal law (2003) and completed her PhD in Comparative Law at the Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy, with a doctoral dissertation (written and defended in Italian) on the decision-making process of East-Central European constitutional courts (2008). In Florence, she also taught European Union Law (in English) at the New York University in Florence and worked at the local law firm Studio Legale Pastorelli.

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Publications

Articles in journals | Articles, book reviews | Articles, reviews/surveys | Books | Chapters in books | Conference papers | Other | Reports |

Articles in journals

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2023). Una breve nota sull’impatto della sentenza Dobbsin Ungheria: [A brief note on the impact of the Dobbs decision in Hungary]. BioLaw journal / Rivista di biodiritto (1S), 483-488.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2018). Dissenting opinions: A comparative perspective. Richterzeitung "Justice – Justiz – Giustizia" (4).
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). Erményi v. Hungary: The European Court of Human Rights expands the notion of privacy. Quaderni Costituzionali, 37 (1), 185-190.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the concept of national constitutional identity. Ianus - Diritto e finanza (15-16), 23-33.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). The New Hungarian Constitution: Legal Critiques from Europe. Review of Central and Eastern European Law, 42 (1), 1-49.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2016). Baka contro Ungheria: La Corte EDU e l’indipendenza dei giudici. Quaderni Costituzionali, 36 (4), 827-830.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2016). Introduction: The 4th Comparative Law Workshop (Örebro, 16 October 2015). Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies, 57 (3), 322-323.
Kelemen, K. (2014). L'accesso individuale indiretto alla Corte costituzionale ungherese. Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (1), 432-446.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). Appointment of Constitutional Judges in a Comparative Perspective – with a Proposal for a New Model for Hungary. Acta Juridica Hungarica, 54 (1), 5-23.
Kelemen, K. (2013). Dissenting opinions in constitutional courts. German Law Journal, 14 (8), 1345-1371.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. & Fekete, B. (2013). Introduction: The First Hungarian-Italian Comparative Law Workshop (Budapest, 11 June 2012). Acta Juridica Hungarica, 54 (1), 1-3.
Johansson, M. C. & Kelemen, K. (2013). Still neglecting the demand that fuels human trafficking: a study comparing the criminal laws and practice of five european states on human trafficking, purchasing sex from trafficked adults and from minors. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 21 (3-4), 247-289.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Az alkotmánybírák választása Európában és hazánkban. Új Magyar Közigazgatás, 4 (4), 2-14.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Hungary is drafting a new Constitution. Diritii Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Una nuova Costituzione per l'Ungheria. Quaderni Costituzionali (3), 681-683.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Van még pálya: a magyar Alkotmánybíróság hatáskörében bekövetkezett változásokról. Fundamentum, 4, 87-96.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2010). Comparazione giuridica ed Europa dell’est. Rivista di diritto civile, 56 (6), 861-876.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2008). A bírói különvélemény története a nyugati jogrendszerekben. Jogtudományi Közlöny, 63 (9), 413-425.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2008). La Corte costituzionale ungherese e la tutela delle minoranze nazionali ed etniche. Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (2), 630-646.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2007). A Magyar Köztársaság Alkotmánybírósága és a nemzeti és etnikai kisebbségek jogainak védelme: az Alkotmánybíróság 2005-ben hozott hat határozata kapcsán. Esély társadalom – és szociálpolitikai folyóirat (1), 24-46.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2004). Bevándorlók és szervezett bűnözés Olaszország és Kelet-Közép-Európa viszonyában, különös tekintettel Magyarországra, Lengyelországra és Csehországra. Ügyészek Lapja (5), 53-66.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2003). A szervezett bűnözés az olasz jogban. Ügyészek Lapja (5), 5-32.

Articles, book reviews

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2019). Review of: S. Cocchi, Uguali nella sostanza, differenti per territorio? La tutela costituzionale dei diritti sociali in Italia e in Spagna. Állam- és Jogtudomány, 60 (1), 117-120.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2016). Review of: Maria Pia Baccari Vari (ed), I fondamenti del diritto europeo e la nuova Costituzione ungherese (Modena: Mucchi Editore 2014). Állam- és Jogtudomány (3), 162-165.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2008). Review of: A. Jakab–P. Takács–A.F. Tatham (eds.), The Transformation of the Hungarian Legal Order 1985–2005 (Alphen aan den Rihn: Kluwer Law International 2007). Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 68 (3), 894-897.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2019). Constitutional reasoning: a flourishing field of research in comparative law. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 17 (4), 1336-1344.

Books

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2018). Judicial Dissent in European Constitutional Courts: A Comparative and Legal Perspective. Oxford: Routledge.

Chapters in books

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2021). Legal reasoning in Central and Eastern Europe from a historical perspective. In: Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt; Andreas Moberg; Joakim Nergelius, Rule of Law in the EU: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall (pp. 109-144). Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2020). Dissenting opinions in ordinary courts: A civil law perspective. In: Vittoria Barsotti and Alessandro Simoni, Processo e cultura giuridica: Procedure and legal culture (Scritti per gli 80 anni di Vincenzo Varano) (pp. 59-78). Torino: G. Giappichelli Editore.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2019). Should judges reveal their disagreement in a case?: The ambiguous relationship between dissenting opinions and judicial independence. In: Cristina Trenta, Juridicum Anthology 2019 (pp. 111-121). Örebro: Örebro university.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2018). I sistemi giuridici dell'Europa orientale. In: Vincenzo Varano, Vittoria Barsotti, La tradizione giuridica occidentale: Testi e materiali per un confronto civil law common law (pp. 182-201). Torino: G. Giappichelli Editore.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. & Fekete, B. (2016). How Should the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe Be Classified Today?. In: Josef Zila, Juridicums Årsbok: 2014-2015 (pp. 135-161). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). Access to Constitutional Justice in the New Hungarian Constitutional Framework: Life after the Actio Popularis?. In: Antonia Geisler, Michael Hein and Siri Hummel, Law, Politics, and the Constitution: New Perspectives from Legal and Political Theory (pp. 63-78). Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Publishing Group.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). La Corte costituzionale. In: Giuseppe Franco Ferrari, La nuova Legge Fondamentale ungherese (pp. 87-100). Torino: G. Giappichelli Editore.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). La storia costituzionale ungherese. In: Giuseppe Franco Ferrari, La nuova Legge Fondamentale ungherese (pp. 1-12). Torino: G. Giappichelli Editore.

Conference papers

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2019). Dissenting opinions in the civil law tradition: Trends and challenges. Paper presented at Workshop on Judicial Decision-Making, Faculty of Law and City Court, Bergen, Norway, May 8, 2019.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2019). Legal argumentation and interpretation in Central and Eastern Europe from a historical perspective. Paper presented at Swedish Network for European Legal Studies: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Rule of Law in the European Union, Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Sweden, November 14-15, 2019. Stockholm:
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2018). Il principio di indipendenza e le opinioni dissenzienti: Un rapporto ambiguo. Paper presented at Annual conference of "Diritti Comparati", entitled "L'indipendenza delle corti nel diritto costituzionale, comparato ed europeo", Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy, October 18-19, 2018.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). Judicial dissent and the civil law tradition. Paper presented at XXIV Bi-annual Colloquium of the Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC), Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy, June 15-17, 2017.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). Judicial dissent in constitutional courts. Paper presented at ICON-S Conference ‘Courts, Power, Public Law’, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 5-7, 2017.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). Reflections on the path dependence of the law and its utility for comparativists. Paper presented at Workshop "New Paths in Comparative Law", at Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di diritto privato e storia del diritto, Milano, Italy, April 5, 2017.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2016). Judicial dissent and legal certainty. Paper presented at 8th Central and Eastern European Forum for Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists, Budapest, Hungary, April 22-23, 2016.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2016). Reflections on the path dependency of legal systems and contextuality. Paper presented at Workshop "Objectives, Methods and Perspectives of a Contextual Analysis in Comparative Law", Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Social Sciences (MTA TK JTI), Budapest, May 19, 2016.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2015). Dissenting Opinions in European Constitutional Courts: Authoritativeness vs. Transparency. Paper presented at ICON-S Annual Conference on "Public Law in an Uncertain World" of the International Society of Public Law (ICON), New York, USA, July 1-3, 2015.
Cordelli, C. & Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2015). Examination methods in comparative law: the Swedish experience. Paper presented at XXIII Bi-Annual Colloquium of the Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC), Palermo, Italy, June 11-13, 2015.
Kelemen, K. & Fekete, B. (2014). How Should the Legal Systems of Eastern Europe Be Classified Today?. In: A. Badó, D.W. Belling, J. Bóka and P. Mezei, International Conference for the 10th Anniversary of the Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Szeged. Paper presented at International Conference for the 10th Anniversary of the Institute of Comparative Law, Szeged, Hungary, 24 May, 2013. (pp. 197-223). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). Some reflections on the comparative method: When a comparativist looks at her own legal system. Paper presented at Second Hungarian-Italian Comparative Law Workshop, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, September 20, 2013.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). The Access to Constitutional Justice in the New Hungarian Constitutional Framework. Paper presented at 5th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, May 3–4, 2013.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). Az alkotmánybírák hivatalviselési ideje és újraválasztása. In: Drinóczi Tímea, Jakab András, Alkotmányozás Magyarországon 2010–2011 Vol. II. Paper presented at Conference on the new Hungarian Constitution, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary, February 4, 2011. (pp. 241-270). Pécs: Pázmány Press.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). The Hungarian Constitutional Court in the new constitutional framework. Paper presented at III Colloquio biennale dei giovani comparatisti, organised by the Italian Association of Comparative Law, Aosta, Italy, June 28-29, 2012.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Dissenting opinions in the practice of the constitutional courts of East-Central Europe: with particular reference to the Hungarian Constitutional Court. Paper presented at International Conference "Advocates or Notaries of Democracy? A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis of the Role of Constitutional Courts in Political Transformation Processes", Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Berlin, Germany, September 22–24, 2011.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. & Fekete, B. (2011). The classification of Eastern European legal systems: new approaches to the understanding of former Socialist legal systems. Paper presented at XXI Colloquio biennale dell’Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy, June 9–11, 2011.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). The New Hungarian Constitution: European Criticalities. Paper presented at Winter Trento European Seminar on the New Constitution of Hungary, Trento, Italy, December 15-16, 2011.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). The road from common law to East-Central Europe: the case of the dissenting opinion. In: Péter Cserne, Miklós Könczöl, Legal and Political Theory in the Post-National Age Selected papers presented at the Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists (Budapest, 21-22 May 2010). Paper presented at The Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists (Budapest, 21-22 May 2010). (pp. 118-134). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Tutela giuridica della minoranza rom nell’ordinamento giuridico ungherese. In: Paolo Bonetti, Alessandro Simoni, Tommaso Vitale, La condizione giuridica di rom e sinti in Italia Tomo I. Paper presented at Condizione giuridica di Rom e Sinti in Italia, Atti del Convegno iternazionale. Milano,16-18 giugno 2010. (pp. 477-504). Milano: Giuffre.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2007). The Use of Dissenting Opinions by Constitutional Courts of East-Central Europe. Paper presented at Workshop "Constitutional Courts in Central and Eastern Europe: An Overview and Perspectives", University of Trento, Trento, Italy, October 10-11, 2007.

Other

Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2021). The Facebook Oversight Board: Some thoughts on transparency. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. & Steuer, M. (2019). Constitutional Court of Hungary (Magyarország Alkotmánybírósága).
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2019). La dignità umana delle persone senza fissa dimora: Secondo la Corte costituzionale ungherese non esiste un diritto di rifiutare l’aiuto offerto dallo stato. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2018). A common law jogrendszerek.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2018). The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court cannot be ratified by Hungary, the Constitutional Court says. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). Book Review: Katalin Kelemen on András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre & Giulio Itzcovich’s “Comparative Constitutional Reasoning”. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2017). The Hungarian Constitutional Court enters the dialogue on national constitutional identity. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2015). EU court strikes down the language regime of EPSO’s recruitment process. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2015). Opinion 2/13 of the CJEU: Whose opinion?. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). A Flexible Constitution: The 4th Amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law – Part I. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). A Flexible Constitution: The 4th Amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law – Part II. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2013). Hungary: voter registration declared unconstitutional. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). Hungary: The Constitutional Court annulled some provisions of the media laws. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). The final blow to the Hungarian law lowering judges’ retirement age struck by the European Court of Justice. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). The Venice Commission on the new Hungarian Constitutional Court Act. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2012). The Venice Commission’s Opinion on the independence of the Hungarian judiciary. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Cinque nuovi giudici alla Corte costituzionale ungherese. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Constitution-making in Hungary: the final stage. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Hungary: the new Constitutional Court Act. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Nuova Costituzione ungherese adottata e promulgata. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). The new Hungarian Constitution and Europe. Diritti Comparati.
Kelemen [Capannini-Kelemen], K. (2011). Ungheria: Primi appunti sull'adozione della nuova Costituzione. Forum di Quaderni Costituzionali.

Reports

Kelemen, K. (2016). The decision-making process of European constitutional courts: A comparative perspective.. Diritti Comparati (Diritti comparati. Working papers 2).