Kim Lane Scheppele
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Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.[1] Scheppele joined the Princeton faculty in 2005, after nearly a decade as the John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she is still a faculty fellow.[2] Scheppele was at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1996, and was an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor from 1993 until her departure for Penn.[3][4][5]
Scheppele is an expert on authoritarian regimes,[6] as well as Hungarian politics and law.[7]
Scheppele worked in Hungary in the 1990s,[8] during which she met Viktor Orbán.[7]
Now a leading critic of the Viktor Orbán government,[7][9] she has called its actions as creating an "unconstitutional constitution,",[10] and that Hungarian democracy is in jeopardy.[7] She called Tünde Handó a "judicial Czar" whose role damaged the independence of the Hungarian judiciary.[8] Scheppele also called a proposed constitutional rewrite in 2013 "a toxic waste dump of bad constitutional ideas", which prompted Fidesz MEP György Schöpflin to attack her claims on the basis of political animosity.[11]
References
- ↑ "Kim Lane Scheppele". Princeton University. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ "Kim Lane Scheppele". University of Pennsylvania Law School. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ "U-M Office of the Provost | Programs | Thurnau Professorships". www.provost.umich.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ↑ "Political Science | Faculty History Project". www.lib.umich.edu (in ltr). Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ↑ "U-M Office of the Provost | Programs | Thurnau Professorships". www.provost.umich.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ↑ Sarlin, Benjy (October 31, 2016). "Analysis: The Vengeful world of Donald Trump, and why it matters". CNBC. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Clibbon, Jennifer (September 17, 2015). "Hungary's Viktor Orban, the cunning leader who would keep refugees out of Europe". CBC News. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- 1 2 Kinga, R. (March 12, 2009). "Gov't unbowed by threat of EU judgement day". Budapest Times. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ Kimball, Spencer (October 1, 2015). "Hungary: 'This is a creeping dictatorship'". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ Williams, Bénédicte (January 6, 2012). "Sick man of Europe". Budapest Times. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ↑ Kinga, R. (March 12, 2013). "Europe Weighs In". Budapest Times. Retrieved November 1, 2016.