GEM-DIAMOND is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action - Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) involving 7 European and 4 international degree-awarding Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) alongside 6 well-established non-academic institutions. The project will hire and train 16 doctoral fellows to help address knowledge gaps associated with the growing normative tensions undermining multilateral and democratic practice.

Entitled ‘Law and practice of the rule of law within the European Union’ the individual research project (under UvA and UNIGE) will assess how EU law and the European fundamental rights system have been at the forefront of several legal conflicts within Europe regarding liberal democracy. The Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights, and several national courts have ruled on politically salient issues creating legal narratives on and shaping our understanding of dissensus in Europe.

The research project will focus on how these rulings have formalised and legalised disagreements about the meaning of democracy, the rule of law and separation of powers, as well as substantive policies, such as migration, climate change, or gender-related issues.

Professor Christina Eckes is a co-Supervisor of the PhD candidate.