Dr Julian Scholtes

  • Lecturer in Public Law (School of Law)

Biography

I joined the Law School as a Lecturer in Public Law in the autumn of 2022. Before that, I was a Lecturer in EU and Public Law at Newcastle University (2021-2022) and a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2017-2022). I obtained an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Edinburgh (2016) and completed my undergraduate studies in Maastricht (NL) and Ankara (Turkey).

Research interests

My research interests lie primarily in the areas of comparative constitutional law, EU constitutional law, and constitutional theory. I am particularly interested in the ways in which European constitutionalism is increasingly challenged, shaped, and irritated by the rise of 'populist' and 'illiberal' constitutional agendas and imaginaries. My doctoral research dealt with the abuse of constitutional identity arguments in the European legal order and the terms of engagement between illiberal constitutional discourse and the 'constitutional pluralism' that characterises the European constitutional space. My dissertation was awarded the European University Institute's 2023 Mauro Cappelletti Prize. A monograph based on the dissertation, titled The Abuse of Constitutional Identity in the European Union, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.

Beyond constitutional identity, my research interests have increasingly included the juridification of values in the European legal order as well as the discursive construction of a form of "European constitutionalism". I am particularly interested in how the legacies of democratic transition in Central and Eastern Europe continue to define and shape our ideas of European constitutionalism more generally.

Publications

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2025

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2025) Freeing constitutional identity from unamendability: Solange I as a constitutional identity judgment. Zeitschrift für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Halmai, Gábor and Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2024) Illiberal constitutionalism and the abuse of constitutional identity. In: Hirschl, Ran and Roznai, Yaniv (eds.) Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity. Series: Comparative constitutional law and policy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 272-285. ISBN 9781009473194 (doi: 10.1017/9781009473194.027)

2023

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2023) The Abuse of Constitutional Identity in the European Union. Series: Oxford studies in European law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198883173

Sahadžić, Maja, Kos, Marjan, Kukavica, Jaka, Gašperin Wischhoff, Jakob and Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (Eds.) (2023) Accommodating Diversity in Multilevel Constitutional Orders: Legal Mechanisms of Divergence and Convergence. Routledge. ISBN 9781032409801 (In Press)

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2023) Constitutionalising the end of history? Pitfalls of a non-regression principle for Article 2 TEU. European Constitutional Law Review, 19(1), pp. 59-87. (doi: 10.1017/S1574019622000451)

2022

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2022) Giuseppe Martinico, Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (CUP 2021). Review of Democracy, 12 Apr. [Book Review]

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2022) Populism and the crisis of constitutional pluralism. In: Krygier, Martin, Czarnota, Adam and Sadurski, Wojciech (eds.) Anti-Constitutional Populism. Series: Cambridge studies in law and society. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 401-433. ISBN 9781316516164 (doi: 10.1017/9781009031103.016)

2021

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2021) Abusing constitutional identity. German Law Journal, 22(4), pp. 534-556. (doi: 10.1017/glj.2021.21)

2019

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2019) The complacency of legality: constitutionalist vulnerabilities to populist constituent power. German Law Journal, 20(3), pp. 351-361. (doi: 10.1017/glj.2019.26)

2018

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2018) The Constitution of Freedom. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 16(3), pp. 1033-1035. (doi: 10.1093/icon/moy082)[Book Review]

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Number of items: 10.

Articles

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2025) Freeing constitutional identity from unamendability: Solange I as a constitutional identity judgment. Zeitschrift für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, (Accepted for Publication)

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2023) Constitutionalising the end of history? Pitfalls of a non-regression principle for Article 2 TEU. European Constitutional Law Review, 19(1), pp. 59-87. (doi: 10.1017/S1574019622000451)

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2021) Abusing constitutional identity. German Law Journal, 22(4), pp. 534-556. (doi: 10.1017/glj.2021.21)

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2019) The complacency of legality: constitutionalist vulnerabilities to populist constituent power. German Law Journal, 20(3), pp. 351-361. (doi: 10.1017/glj.2019.26)

Books

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2023) The Abuse of Constitutional Identity in the European Union. Series: Oxford studies in European law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198883173

Book Sections

Halmai, Gábor and Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2024) Illiberal constitutionalism and the abuse of constitutional identity. In: Hirschl, Ran and Roznai, Yaniv (eds.) Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity. Series: Comparative constitutional law and policy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 272-285. ISBN 9781009473194 (doi: 10.1017/9781009473194.027)

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2022) Populism and the crisis of constitutional pluralism. In: Krygier, Martin, Czarnota, Adam and Sadurski, Wojciech (eds.) Anti-Constitutional Populism. Series: Cambridge studies in law and society. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 401-433. ISBN 9781316516164 (doi: 10.1017/9781009031103.016)

Book Reviews

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2022) Giuseppe Martinico, Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (CUP 2021). Review of Democracy, 12 Apr. [Book Review]

Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (2018) The Constitution of Freedom. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 16(3), pp. 1033-1035. (doi: 10.1093/icon/moy082)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Sahadžić, Maja, Kos, Marjan, Kukavica, Jaka, Gašperin Wischhoff, Jakob and Scholtes, Julian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-2348 (Eds.) (2023) Accommodating Diversity in Multilevel Constitutional Orders: Legal Mechanisms of Divergence and Convergence. Routledge. ISBN 9781032409801 (In Press)

This list was generated on Tue Jun 17 09:36:23 2025 BST.

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