Constitutional Theory Discussion Group: Off-Bench Judicial Behavior (Daniel Bogega & Zdeněk Kühn)
Constitutional Theory Discussion Group: Off-Bench Judicial Behavior (Daniel Bogega & Zdeněk Kühn)
Thursday, 13 June 2024
5 p.m., room n. 304
Daniel Bogéa will present his paper Off-Bench Judicial Behavior: a conceptual framework for assessing the role of judges beyond courts.
Following the presentation, Professor Zdeněk Kühn, S.J.D., Justice of the Czech Constitutional Court, will comment on the paper.
Abstract: Courts are political institutions. Judges are political actors. In this paper, I develop this long-time insight from judicial politics scholarship to address the role of judges off the bench. The core argument is that we must be mindful of judicial behavior beyond judicial decision-making. Consequently, the article presents a theoretical contribution to this debate and methodological reflections to foster its empirical development.
Bio: Daniel Bogéa is a Teaching Fellow and a PhD Candidate in Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of New South Wales (recipient of the ARC Future Fellowship PhD Scholarship in Constitutions and Democratic Resilience) and a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of São Paulo. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Law and Political Science from Brazilian universities. He is a Doctoral Researcher at the Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law (UNSW Sydney) and at JUDE - Judiciary and Democracy Research Group (USP), and works as a Research Associate for a project on judicial electoral governance at Georgetown University.