Ivo Gruev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School with a background in comparative constitutional studies and a particular interest in the constitutional protection of fundamental rights in societies transitioning from or into authoritarian rule. His doctorate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford employed doctrinal and law-in-context analysis to assess how the interplay of institutional design, judicial culture, constitution-making history and political context influences the jurisprudence and rights-protecting role of newly created constitutional courts in Central and Eastern Europe. He is a lecturer in public international law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and holds a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford and a law degree (1. Staatsexamen) from the Humboldt University in Berlin. Being interested in the intersection between research and public policy, he has also worked for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the German Parliament, the International Criminal Court, and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.
Ivo's research at the Centre for Fundamental Rights focuses on the erosion of liberal constitutionalism and the changing relationship between governments, courts, and human rights in both established and non-consolidated democracies.
