Matteo MastracciKoc University · Law School
Matteo Mastracci
PhD
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Introduction
PhD Researcher at Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey). Main research interests include Comparative Constitutionalism, Legal Theory, and Turkish politics. Currently, he is conducting comparative studies, through a mixed-method approach, on European populist parties and their impact on the resilience of constitutional regimes. He is also working as a reporter for the Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL), International Human Rights module.
Additional affiliations
September 2018 - present
Education
January 2020 - June 2020
Field of study
- L'insegnamento delle materie giuridico-economiche negli istituti secondari di II grado: metodologie didattiche
June 2017 - June 2018
June 2012 - June 2014
Field of study
- International Criminal Law and Corporate Crimes
Publications
Publications (5)
Judicial independence is a cornerstone of contemporary constitutional systems within European legal orders that Poland, among many other European States, codified the principle at a constitutional level through Article 173 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. Nonetheless, the concrete implementation of the theoretical framework remains a...
Judicial Reform Plan in Poland and EU main reactions to the rule of law backsliding.
Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia and Judicial Independence
The shortcomings triggered by a more globalized, and in some respects uncontrolled scenario, together with a too weak response in term of the overall strategy of European Union’s institutions, seem to have pushed forward to new proto-nationalist policies performed by new and emerging political actors usually classified under the very broad labels o...
Questions
Questions (2)
I'm looking for a classical theoretical approach which argues that Parliaments cannot legitimately act over, or simply evaluate, any of the core democratic values.
Is Judicial Independence a component or rather a pre-requisite of Rule of Law? Do we need to place the notion of Judicial Independence inside or outside the ROL framework? Which theoretical approach better deal with the relationship between the two concepts?
