Research

Doctoral dissertation

The political constraints on constitutional review
Thesis submitted in June 2019 at the Department of Political Science, University College London. Viva passed in July 2019.
Supervisors: Christine Reh, Lucas Leemann and Timothy Hicks

Publications

Seizing opportunities: The determinants of the CJEU’s deference to national courts
2023, Journal of European Public Policy.

From One to Many: Identifying Issues in CJEU Jurisprudence
2023, Journal of Law and Courts, with Johan Lindholm.

Pushing boundaries: How lawmakers shape judicial decision-making
2022, Comparative Political Studies.

The Legitimacy of Regional Institutions
2016 in Tanja Börzel & Thomas Risse, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 579-599; with Berthold Rittberger.

Selected projects and working papers

Putting Courts Under Pressure: When Lawmakers Push Constitutional Boundaries
Book manuscript based on my doctoral thesis at University College London's Department of Political Science.

As you were saying: Framing decisions at the Court of Justice of the European Union
Paper prepared for presentation at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting and the 2022 EUSA Biennial Conference, with Daniel Naurin and Johan Lindholm.

Selected conference submissions

Backlash and discretion: Explaining judicial rule-making in constitutional review cases
Presented at the 2019 European Consortium for Political Research General Conference.

The political dynamics of constitutional review
Presented at the 2018 American Political Science Association Annual Conference.

The determinants of judicial review: Judicial concessions and legitimacy concerns
Presented at the 2017 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference.