Beatrice Monciunskaite is an assistant professor at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Her teaching and scholarly interests include comparative constitutional law, European Union law and democratic theory. Beatrice's PhD research was funded by the Irish Research Council and investigated the status of liberal constitutional democracy in Lithuania and Latvia in light of the current rule of law crisis in Europe. Beatrice is also a Fulbright alumna, receiving the 2021/22 Fulbright Student Award. She is currently working on a monograph detailing the trajectory of liberal constitutional democracy in the Baltic States while continuing to research in the area of the rule of law crisis and European Union accession law and policy.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Beatrice Monciunskaite (2025) 'The Shifting Landscape of Judicial Independence Criteria under the Preliminary Reference Procedure: A Comment on the CJEU’s Recent Case Law and the Trajectory of Article 267 TFEU'. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, . [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Monciunskaite, B. (2022) 'To Live and to Learn: The EU Commission’s Failure to Recognise Rule of Law Deficiencies in Lithuania'. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 14 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Beatrice Monciunskaite (2022) 'The Risks to Judicial Independence in Latvia: A View Eighteen Years Since EU Accession'. Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy, (18). [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Niels Kirst; Beatrice Monciunskaite (2022) 'Establishing a Link between Solidarity and Responsibility – The Court’s Judgment on the Conditionality Regulation'. Irish Journal of European Law, Vol. 24 :203-214. [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Beatrice Monciunskaite (2024) 'Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments' In: Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. London : Oxford University Press. [DOI] |