Janka Deli is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Rock Center and Miller Empirical Fellow at the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She previously held the Gerhard Casper Fellowship in Rule of Law at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (2023-2024) and was a Data Science Scholar at Stanford Data Science (2020-2023).

Janka’s interdisciplinary research investigates the economic impact of rule of law decline in developed economies, exploring whether markets and the business sector can effectively check illiberal governance trends. Her work employs innovative approaches to operationalize rule of law concepts, drawing on her expertise in political science, financial economics, political economy, causal inference methodology, and data science, complementing her comprehensive legal training.

Her scholarship has earned multiple recognitions, including the Theodore Eisenberg Poster Prize at the 2023 Conference of Empirical Legal Studies and the Best Workshop Paper Prize from the International Law and Social Science Interest Group at the 2025 American Society of International Law Annual Meeting. At Stanford, she received the prestigious Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship and Gerald Gunther Prize.

Janka’s research has been supported by the Miller Institute at Berkeley Law, Stanford Data Science, Stanford University’s Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, László Sólyom (former Chief Justice of Hungary’s Constitutional Court and former President), the Rosztoczy Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Hungary Initiatives Foundation, and the Dr. Elemér and Éva Kiss Scholarship Fund.

She holds a JSD (2024) and JSM (2019) from Stanford Law School, and a JD (summa cum laude) with a Certificate in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest (2017).