Contact information:Mailing Address:
CEU 1051 Budapest,
Nador street 9.
Office Location:
Nador street 9., FT, room 806

Tel.: + (36 1) 327-3083
Fax: + (36 1) 000-0000
E-mail: SandorjATceu.hu
Judit Sándor(Hungary)
Professor, Director of CELAB
Courses:
  • Privacy Rights and Data Protection
  • - contemporary challenges
  • Patients' Rights in the Twenty First Century

  • Biotechnology and Social Policy: Genetics, Reproduction, and Enhancement

  • Reproduction and Gender
Short Profile:Judit Sándor is professor at the Departments of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She is an internationally known expert of biomedical law. After completing her bar exam in Hungary in 1991, she worked at Simmons & Simmons in London. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. in law and political science. She was one of the founders of the first Patients' Right Organization ('Szószóló') in Hungary, she is a member of the Hungarian Science and Research Ethics Council, and works also at the Hungarian Human Reproduction Commission. Professor Sándor is a member of the Hungarian Genetechnology Commission and a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Privacy Institute. In 2003 she was appointed as an expert for the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee on Human Genetics. She participated in many different legislative- and other standard-setting activities projects both at the international, and at the national level. She was involved among others in various legal drafting projects under the aegis of UNESCO, in the framework of the European Union and the Council of Europe and has participated in the formulation of numerous Hungarian Bills. In 1996 she received the Mellon fellowship to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France. In November 1998, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, California, Program in Genomics, Ethics and Society. In 2004-2005 she worked as the Chief of Bioethics at UNESCO, Paris. She published six books in the field of human rights and biomedical law.