Four connected strands: how constitutional meaning changes, how courts behave under democratic backsliding, how judicial reasoning is built, and where parliamentary speech goes when policy influence disappears.
FLAGSHIP · MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS · 2025–2027
Constitutions can transform while their text stands still. TRACE builds contextual word-embedding models over six decades of Turkish Constitutional Court jurisprudence to detect and measure these implicit shifts — how concepts like rights, secularism and the state itself quietly change meaning in judicial reasoning.
The roles courts assume in regime crises — guardian, mediator, regime-builder, captive — and how authoritarian consolidation reshapes judicial behavior, from written dissent to ordinary courts' resistance to binding judgments.
The doctrinal architecture of court decisions: how justification is constructed, how it differs across rights, and what large-scale computational analysis reveals about the structure of legal argument.
Where parliamentary speech goes when the chamber can no longer shape policy — tracing shifts in discourse composition across 363,049 plenary speeches under personalist executive dominance.
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