Ramona COMAN

Course offered: 

Optional Workshop : Rule of law in the EU: Tools and Challenges 

Current position: 

Professor in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) – Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences; Member of CEVIPOL and of the Institut d’études européennes – ULB

• Principal investigator of the Horizon Europe RED-SPINEL project since 2022
• Academic coordinator of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Joint Doctorate Network GEM-DIAMOND since 2022
• Board Member of the re:constitution - Exchange and Analysis on Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe programme 
• Member of the Doctoral School in Political Science of the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences
• Cordinator of the ULB Mini ARC Research project “Is the EU’s fiscal capacity transforming its member states? Insights from the Recovery Resilience Facility and Cohesion Policy?” with prof. Paul Dermine

Previous professional affiliations: 

• President of the Institut d’études européennes-ULB (2019-2023)
• Director of the Institut d’études européennes-ULB (2014-2019)
• Visiting researcher, Boston University, Centre for European Policy Studies (2016) 

Education: 

• PhD in Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles
• Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bologna, IRSIG
• Diplôme d’études approfondies en science politique (DEA) – ULB;
• MA in EU Studies, Institut d’études européennes-ULB;
• BA in Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science - University of Bucharest.

Research interests: 

• The EU’s rule of law policy and instruments and their domestic impacts
• The impact of dissensus over liberal democracy on the functionning of the EU institutions and EU’s capacity to act
• Contestation of liberal democracy with a focus on actors (think tanks and parties)
• Judicial reforms and judges mobilisations
• EU institutions (European Parliament, Commission, Council and European Council)
• Dynamics of policy/institutional change
• Democratization and Europeanization
• The circulation of liberal/illiberal in the UE

Recent publications: 

• Coman, R., The Politics of the Rule of Law in the EU Polity, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, 2022. 
• Coman, R. Costa, O. and Sierens, V. (eds), EU Council Presidencies in Times of Crises, Palgrave, 2024.
• Brack, N., Coman, R. & Crespy, A. (eds), Understanding Conflicts of Sovereignty in the EU, Routledge, London, New York, 2021.