András Sajó
University Professor, Central European University
András Sajó is a former Judge and Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights, a University Professor and Founding Dean of Legal Studies at the Central European University, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served as legal advisor to the first freely elected President of Hungary and has published extensively in the area of comparative constitutional law. He also participated as an advisor in drafting the Ukrainian, Georgian and South African (interim) constitutions. He was a recurrent visiting law professor at ELTE Budapest, University of Chicago, Cardozo and NYU, and taught courses at Harvard, Columbia, University of New South Wales and other law schools. His most recent book publications are The Constitution of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Ruling by Cheating – Governance in Illiberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Education
- JD ELTE Law School PhD
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Background
- Human Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- Comparative Constitutional Law
Languages
- Hungarian
- English
- Italian
- French
- German
- Russian
Countries
- Hungary