CEPOL Research & Science Conference 2022 MRU, Vilnius

Academic Title(s), Position, (Department), Institution and Country:
Research Professor and Head of Department for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (formerly Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studie
Professor of Law at the Institute of Business Economics at Eötvös University (ELTE) and at the Law Enforcement Faculty of Ludovika University
Research Affiliate at CEU Democracy Institute, Rule of Law Research Group in Budapest, Hungary.
Adjunct (Recurrent Visiting) Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Vienna.

Relevant professional activities, experience and merits
A former visiting scholar New York University School of Law Global Law Program, and a SASPRO-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, his research interest include comparative constitutional law, human rights, law enforcement, in particular hate crimes, discrimination and the conceptualization of race and ethnicity. He worked as rapporteur, consultant, senior expert, project manager and lead researcher in various project commissioned by the European Union (the Commission as well the Parliament and the Agency for Fundamental Rights), the Council of Europe and the UN. He is a recurrent evaluator for research grants for the EU and agencies in the Czech Republic Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia and Switzerland and serves as expert witness for courts in the UK and the US. He habitually works with international NGO’s and think tanks like Freedom House, Transparency International, the Open Society Institute, Scholars at Risk, the Centre for European Policy Studies, International Centre for Democratic Transition, and for many years had been trainer at the International Law Enforcement Academy. He is a member of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee.
In 2018 he founded the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Research Group on identity, race and ethnicity in constitutional law. He is the author of 100 publications in English and gave over 160 talks at international conferences and events.

Select recent and relevant publications
Academic freedom: A test and a tool for illiberalism, neoliberalism and liberal democracy, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Spring/Summer 2021 • Volume XXVI, Issue II.
Piecemeal Devourment: Academic Freedom in Hungary, UIC John Marshall Law Review, January 5th, 2021, https://lawreview.jmls.uic.edu/piecemeal-devourment-academic-freedom-in-hungary/
Neglect, marginalization and abuse: hate crime legislation and practice in the labyrinth of identity politics, minority protection and penal populism, Nationalities Papers The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Volume 49 Issue 3. (2020)
Democratic Decline in Hungary, Routledge, 2018.