Kálmán Pócza, Pep Vallbé, Gábor Dobos and Attila Gyulai developed this argument in "Exploring Assertiveness: How Institutional Architecture and Political Dynamics Shape Judicial Behavior," presented on 18 June 2026 in the panel Constitutional Judges and their Behavior in Democracies. The venue was the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) Annual Conference in Ljubljana, which continued on 19 June. The contribution showed how empirical analysis can refine explanations of constitutional court behaviour.