Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Bogdan Iancu is associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. He holds a law degree, Al. I. Cuza” Iaşi (1996), a Master’s degree in Comparative Constitutional Law (1997, CEU) and a PhD in Law, with specialization in Comparative Constitutional Law (2006, summa cum laude, Central European University). He has conducted research internships at the law faculties of the University of Toronto (2000), Yale University (2001), McGill University (2002-2004); Associate Lecturer 2002-2004 at McGill and Université de Montréal. Scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik, Faculty of Law, University of Bremen and Faculty of Law, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2008-2010) and the Max Planck Institute of International and Comparative public Law (return Scholarship, 2021). He has publications on Romanian and comparative constitutional law in Romania (Hamangiu, Universul Juridic, Polirom) and abroad (at Eleven International Publishing, Springer, T.M.C. Asser, Routledge, Vittorio Klostermann, Hart Publishing, Cambridge University Press).

Research fields: Romanian and comparative constitutional law (in comparative terms, expertise in the field of American, French, German constitutional law); European constitutionalism (especially the influence of the “constitutionalization” processes at EU level on the constitutional systems of the member states (evolution of the Copenhagen criteria, reforms of the judicial systems, anti-corruption); History of ideas and basic concepts of the state and public law (separation of powers, independence of justice, etc.); constitutional history (especially constitutional modernization by transplantation of norms in the 19th century).

Courses: IRES (Introduction to Constitutional Law), MCP (Constituționalism european), SPE (Comparative legislative processes), SSL (Dreptul internațional al drepturilor omului), MRI (Introducere în dreptul constituțional al Uniunii Europene), MIPA (Elemente de constituționalism național și transnațional), MSE (Drept instituțional al Uniunii Europene)

Recent publications:

• Iancu, B. Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’. Hague J Rule Law (2024, online first), peer reviewed (Q1, IF 2,9, JCR2023), 1-32 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-024-00220-9

• Iancu, B. Evolution and Gestalt of the Romanian Constitution, capitolul 10  în Armin von Bogdandy, Sabrina Ragone, Peter M. Huber,  coord., Constitutional Foundations, în seria Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 493-547 (accesibil și OUP online https://academic.oup.com/book/46456/chapter-abstract/407755537redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726425.003.0010)

• Iancu, B. „„Strălucirea democrației ia ochii tuturor”: Constituția din 1923 între proiecte și contexte”, în revista Dreptul 3/2023 (număr special dedicat centenarului Constituției din 2023), pp. 9-26 

• Iancu, B. „Pe aici nu se trece !: Identitate și prioritate la București-Varșovia-Karlsruhe-Roma-Madrid-Luxemburg” în Bogdan Dima și Vlad Perju, coord., După 30 de ani: justiția constituțională în România, București, Humanitas, 2023, pp. 272-298

• Iancu, B., Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Populism and Judicial Independence in Europe, in D. J. Galligan, ed., The Courts and the People: Friend of Foe (The Putney Debates 2019), Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2021, pp. 93-114. (capitol A1)
• Iancu, B., Hidden Continuities?: The Avatars of “Judicial Lustration” in Post-Communist Romania. 22(7) German Law Journal 1209-1230 (2021). (articol, peer review, BDI) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/hidden-continuities-the-avatars-of-judicial-lustration-in-postcommunist-romania/961071D8D8594C1684645D7B8FED0544

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) Romanian and comparative constitutionalism/ Romanian and comparative constitutional law, (2) European (EU) constitutionalism (institutions and principles of EU law, constitutional identity/priority collisions, evolution of pre-accession conditionalities (judicial organization, anti-corruption policies), etc.), (3) constitutional history, in particular Romanian constitutional history, (4) democratization (specific conditionalities, e.g. regarding anti-corruption policies or evolution of “rule of law” indicators)

Office hours: details by e-mail

E-mail: bogdan.iancu@unibuc.ro