Simona Demkova
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. S. Demkova LLM MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- s.demkova@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2169-0165
Simona Demková is an Assistant Professor in European law at the Europa Institute. She is leading a collaborative research project on the 'EU's human-centred digital transformation' funded by a Leiden University starter grant. Her research expertise covers a broad range of European law, including European administrative and constitutional law, protecting fundamental rights and the digitalisation and regulation of novel technologies.
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Simona Demková is an Assistant Professor in European law at the Europa Institute. She is currently leading a collaborative research project on the 'EU's human-centred digital transformation', funded by a Leiden University starter grant. Her research expertise covers a broad range of European law, including European administrative and constitutional law, protecting fundamental rights and the digitalisation and regulation of novel technologies.
Simona has been a visiting scholar at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa (2024) and the European University Institute (2020). Before joining Leiden University, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg within the framework of an interdisciplinary (law and computer science) project – DILLAN (Digitalisation, Law and Innovation). She completed her PhD thesis at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Professor Herwig Hofmann. Simona holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Central European University in Hungary and an Advanced LL.M. in European and International Human Rights Law from Leiden University.
Simona is the author of several publications, including a monograph entitled ‘Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies’ published by Edward Elgar in 2023. She regularly presents her research at international academic conferences, workshops and seminars. She is an active member of various scholarly networks. In particular, she is the Head of Section on Digital State for The Digital Constitutionalist and a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S). She is also a national rapporteur for the Tech Litigation Database, developed as part of the Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) project based at the Centre for Fundamental Rights and the Hertie School of Governance.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Europees Recht
- Demkova S., Fink M. & Gentile G. (4 October 2023), The digital future of European public administration: introduction to the symposium on safeguarding the right to good administration in the age of AI. The Digital Constitutionalist. [blog entry].
- Demkova S. (2023), Automated decision-making and effective remedies: the new dynamics in the protection of EU fundamental rights in the area of freedom, security and justice. Elgar Studies in European Law and Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
- Demková S. & Hofmann H.C.H. (2022), General principles of procedural justice. In: Ziegler K.S., Neuvonen P.J. & Moreno-Lax V. (Eds.), Research handbook on general principles in EU law: constructing legal orders in Europe. Research Handbooks in European Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 209-226.
- Demková S. (2022), Enforcing remedies: the challenges of automatisation for effective oversight. In: Ligeti K. & Brodersen KH. (Eds.), Studies on Enforcement in Multilevel Regulatory Systems. Luxemburger Juristische Studien = Luxembourg Legal Studies no. 24. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 185-210.
- Demková S. (2021), The decisional value of information in European semi-automated decision-making, Review of European Administrative Law 14(2): 29-50.
- Quintel T. & Demková S. (2020), Allocation of responsibilities in interoperable information exchanges: effective review compromised?. In: Amalfitano C., Anrò I., Rass-Masson L. & Théron J. (Eds.) L'État de droit = o stato di diritto = The rule of law: ateliers doctoraux 2019 de la European School of law Toulouse, Università degli studi di Milano. Cahiers Jean Monnet no. 6 Toulouse: Editions des Presses de l'Université de Toulouse 1 Capitole. 589-616.
- Demková S. (2019), The grand chamber's take on composite procedures under the single supervisory mechanism, Review of European Administrative Law 12(1): 209-224.