Gábor Halmai is professor emeritus and scientific director of the project ’TRust, Independence, Impartiality and Accountability of of Legal Professionals under the EU Charter – part 2 (TRIIAL 2) in the Center for Judicial Cooperation of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Between 2016 and 2022 he was Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Law Department of the European University Institute. He served as Director of Graduate Studies at the Law Department from 2017 till 2021. His primary research interests are comparative and European constitutional law.