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.