Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
Based: Maryland
Languages: English, Kurdish
Karol Soltan teaches at the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland,as part of the program of the Committee for Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy, where his main focus is on issues connecting constitutionalism and development. Karol's research has ranged from theoretical accounts of power and legitimacy and reformulations of the notion of constitutionalism to practical questions about policy and reform interventions to promote long term development in fragile states.
From 2003 Karol directed the Recovered States Task Force as part of the Project on Fragile States for USAID. During the summer of 2005 Karol spent time in Iraq as a constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government.
Karol is co-founder of the Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law and of the Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society. In 2000 he served as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Office of Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, where he was also Acting Cabinet Member for Political Affairs in the Transitional Government of East Timor.
Among Karol has recently co-edited and contributed to a series of books including 'A New Constitutionalism', 'The Constitution of Good Societies', 'Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions', 'Institutions and Social Order' and 'Politics from Anarchy to Democracy'.
Karol previously taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Warsaw and in the National School of Public Administration also in Warsaw. Recently he was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Law in the University of Toulouse.
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