Barbora Budinská
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. B. Budinská
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7532
- b.budinska@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2538-885X

Barbora Budinská is an Assistant Professor of European Law at Leiden University’s Europa Institute.
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Barbora holds law degrees from Humboldt University in Berlin and Leiden University. As a Meijers PhD grant holder, she was awarded her doctorate by Leiden University in 2025. In her thesis, she focused on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) mandate to apply national (banking) law within the framework of the first pillar of the Banking Union: the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). She identified a number of specific challenges posed by the ECB’s application of national law and examined its mandate for compliance with several rule of law principles, including conferral, the legality of administration and effective judicial protection.
In addition to her research on the supervisory mandate of the ECB, Barbora has a general interest in law and governance in the European Banking Union. She regularly contributes op-eds and analyses on her research to EU Law Live.
Between June and December 2021, Barbora worked as a trainee at the Directorate General Legal Services, Supervisory Law Division of the ECB in Frankfurt. From 2021 until 2025, she was a member of the Young Researchers Group of the European Banking Institute.
Since 2022, Barbora has been appointed as Project Manager of the NWO Vidi grant project led by Dr Vasiliki Kosta The EU fundamental right to ‘freedom of the arts and sciences’: exploring the limits on the commercialisation of academia (AFITE).
Between February and July 2025, Barbora acted as Managing Editor of Common Market Law Review.
Barbora teaches in various Bachelor’s and Master’s courses and supervises Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis students. Since 2024, Barbora has been working on the implementation of the Smarter Academic Year pilot project and since September 2025, she has been the academic coordinator of the European Law LLM programme.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Law
- Institute of Public Law
- Europees Recht
- Budinská B., annotation: Gerecht EU 28 February 2024, no. T-667/21, ECLI:EU:T:2024:131, Review of European Administrative Law 18(1): 81-102 (The General Court gives with one hand and takes away with the other: Reflections on the judgment in BAWAG PSK Bank v ECB (T-667/21) concerning the ECB’s mandate to apply national law).
- Budinská B. (13 May 2025), The European Central Bank's centralised application of national law under the Single Supervisory Mechanism: a rule of law analysis (Dissertatie. Institute of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University) Meijers-reeks no. MI-441. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Van den Bogaert S.C.G., Borger V.
- Budinská B. (1 February 2024), General Court finds that the SRB failed to fulfil its duty to state reasons as regards the calculation of the annual target level for the 2021 ex-ante contributions to the SRF: [analysis]. EU Law Live. [web article].
- Budinská B. (12 March 2024), On the inclusion of liabilities from ancillary promotional activities into the calculation of ex-ante contributions (NRW.Bank v SRB, T-466/16 RENV): [Analysis]. EU Law Live: EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (10 May 2024), On the calculation of the annual target level of the 2022 ex-ante contributions to the SRF (Dexia v SRB, T-411/22). EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (9 July 2024), No compensation for Banca Carige shareholders (Malacalza Investimenti and Malacalza v ECB, T-134/21). EU Law Live: EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (5 November 2024), On the function and standard of review of national banking law before EU Courts: Anglo Austrian AAB v ECB (C-579/22 P). EU Law Live: EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (16 May 2023), Payment service providers must be able to identify the beneficiary of a payment transaction debited from a payment service user’s account (C-351/21, Beobank). EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. & Tegelaar J.T. (2023), Duty of care as a judicial review tool for SSM composite procedures. In: Böffel L. & Schürger J. (Eds.), Digitalisation, Sustainability, and the Banking and Capital Markets Union. Thoughts on Current Issues of EU Financial Regulation. EBI Studies in Banking and Capital Markets Law. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 329-351.
- Budinská B. (13 September 2022), ABLV Bank AS v SRB: judicial review of non-resolution decisions and failing or likely-to-fail assessments. EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (11 October 2022), Banks under stress and EU law in the latest case-law of the Court of Justice of the EU. EU Law Live Podcast: EU Law Live [podcast].
- Budinská B. (10 May 2021), Of auctoritas and potestas in the Banking Union: the ECB, the SRB, failing credit institutions and judicial review. EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (10 November 2021), NRW.Bank v SRB: acts changing the amount of ex-ante contributions are not confirmatory measures. EU Law Live. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. & Wamel D.R. van (2020), ECJ’s Weiss and the Bundesverfassungsgericht’s PSPP: two courts speaking two different languages, Ars Aequi KwartaalSignaal 2020(156): 9223-9227.
- Budinská B. (2019), Judicial review of revocation decisions in the context of European banking supervision, Review of European Administrative Law 12(1): 175-193.
- Budinská B., Roes T. & Vandendaele V. (2019), Europees recht, Ars Aequi KwartaalSignaal 2019(151): 8876-8881.
- Budinská B. & Vikarská Z. (7 December 2017), Judicial dialogue after Taricco II: who has the last word, in the end?. EU Law Analysis: Expert insight into EU law developments. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. (21 November 2017), Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights: a toothless tiger?. Leiden Law Blog. [blog entry].
- Budinská B. & Weidlich L. (27 November 2015), Auschwitzvergleich als Beleidigung: EGMR schlägt sich auf Seite der Meinungsfreiheit. Verfassungsblog. [blog entry].