Permanent Faculty

Nador 15, 503
phone: ( 36 1) 327-3000/3083
email: sandorj [at] ceu.hu

Judit Sándor is a professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She received her JD at the Faculty of Law in Budapest. In 1990 she was as a visiting scholar at the McGill University specializing in medical law. She completed the Hungarian bar exam and in 1991 she was an intern in London with the Simmons & Simmons. She received an LLM degree on comparative constitutional law (New York Board of Education and CEU). In 1993 she was a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center ( New York), in 1996 visiting scholar at the Maison des sciences de l'homme ( Paris). In 1996 received Ph.D. in law and political science. She was a course co-director at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik and at the Summer University Program of the CEU. In 1998 (November-December) she received a fellowship at Stanford University, and in 2001 (October) in the Netherlands (invitation by the Parliamentary Group on Health). Her main publications and books are in the field of health care law, human rights, reproduction and genetics. She is one of the Founders of the Patients' Right Foundation in Hungary, and a member of the Hungarian Science and Research Ethics Council, and member of the Hungarian Human Reproduction Commission. In 2004/2005 she worked as the head of the Bioethics Unit of UNESCO in Paris. In 2005 she established a new research Center within CEU, the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB). Since 2008 she works for five European Research Projects: (1) Genetic Bio- and DataBanking: Confidentiality and Protection of Data. (Acronym: GeneBanC), (2) Privacy in Law and Ethics in Genetic Data (Acronym: Privileged), (3) Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context (Acronym: RemediE), (4) Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union–an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis (Acronym: Tiss.eu) and (5) EULOD Project on European Living Organ Donation. This project runs until 2012.

Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB)

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:

2010/11
Human Rights and Biopolitics
Gender and Biotechnology: The Self, the Family and the State in the Post-Genomic Era (Gender Studies)
Patients' Rights in the 21st Century (Legal Studies)
Privacy and Data Protection – Challenges of Biotechnology (Legal Studies)

2009/10
Human Rights and Biopolitics

2008/09
Human Rights and Biopolitics

2007/08
Biotechnology and Social Policy
Contemporary Challenges to Human Rights
Reproduction and Gender (Gender Dept. crosslisted)