Peter Čuroš

a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Private Law at the University of Oslo. In the years 2016-2019 he was an Assistant Professor at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Law, where he presented his dissertation thesis on Right to Disobey: Civil Disobedience. August 2015- May 2016 he spend as visiting scholar under the supervision of Vincent Bradford Professor of Law James Moliterno at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, with the research areas of Professional Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Law and Morality, Civil Disobedience. He has published several articles on lawyers’ ethics, judicial ethics, legal theory and the theory of rights.
In the project Judges under Stress: the Breaking Point of the Judicial Institutions he is focused on the Czech Republic and Slovakia and researches the core concepts of the judicial profession, that are independence, accountability, impartiality, integrity, and competence. He investigates how different political regimes consider these concepts and what qualities of the judge do they expect from their justices. For this, he looks at the different regimes the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Czechoslovak Republic between 1918-1938, Slovak Republic and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during Nazi regime in WWII, Communist regime in Czechoslovak Republic, the period after the fall of Communist power after 1989, and the last period – since the entrance of both republics into the EU in 2004.
His recent publications are Independence Without Accountability: The Harmful Consequences of EU Policy Toward Central and Eastern European Entrants n Fordham International Law Review, Can Foxes and Hedgehogs Find Common Ground? in Právny obzor and Normative Status of Professional Ethics. In Legal Ethics. Sobek, T et al. Právní etika (Legal Ethics).
His work in progress is focused on the institutional theory in the development of the judiciary through totalitarian regimes in Czechoslovakia. Moreover, he focuses on legal education in Central and Eastern Europe, what he presented at IJCLE 2019 in Bratislava, ILEC 8 in Melbourne, NIFTEP in Melbourne and ILEC 2018 at Fordham University.