Dimitry Kochenov
Professor Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov leads the Rule of Law Workgroup at the Central European University Democracy Institute and teaches at the Department of Legal Studies. His research focuses on the principles of law in the global context, with a special emphasis on the Rule of Law, citizenship, and the enforcement of European Union values. Career. Prof. Kochenov is principal investigator on 'Rule of Law Practices' in the European Union's Horizon2020 RECONNECT consortium. Dimitry Vladimirovich sat on European Research Council Advanced grants panels, national research councils, and took part in the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology national  research assessment of institutions of higher education. He sits on the editorial boards, inter alia, of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Review of Democracy, Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Law, Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta Serija 11: Pravo and Review of Central and East European Law. Before returning to CEU Dimitry Vladimirovich was a professor in Groningen and held visiting appointments at Princeton University (Crane Fellowship in Law and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and a Visiting Professorship at the University Center for Human Values); University of Oxford (COMPAS, School of Anthropology); NYU Law School (Émile Noël Fellowship ); College of Europe (Visiting Professorship); University of Basel Institute for European Global Studies (Visiting Fellowship); Boston College (Senior Clough Fellowship), University of Turin (Visiting Chair in Private Law), LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Visiting Co-Chair in EU Law), UNAM Mexico, Osaka Graduate School of Law and countless others. He served as the founding chairman of the Investment Migration Council (Geneva). Prof. Kochenov consults governments and international organizations on his subjects of interest. He has done work for The Kingdom of the Netherlands, Malta, European and Scottish parliaments and acted as expert in front of courts. He was retained as an  expert by Clifford Chance in some of the Bancoult cases, helping the Chagossians expelled from their archipelago by the British Crown. The Economist, FT, NYT, BBC, CBC, NBC, Le Monde, Rzeczpospolita and other leading outlets paid attention to Dimitry's work / published his op-eds and interviews. Among the honours he received, there is a cookie named after him at Black and Bloom in Groningen.