1975                 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Faculty of Law, Doctor Juris

1981                Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Faculty of Sociology

1986                Ph.D./CSc, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2001 – present         Central European University, Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary

                                        Professor, Chairman of the Human Rights Program (between 2003-2004 and              2015 and 2018 Head of the Department of Legal Studies)

2007 – 2011              Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

                                        Pro-Rector for Hungarian and EU Affairs

1997 – 2000              Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI), Budapest, Hungary

                                        Research Director

Designing and supervising COLPI programs on criminal justice, police, judiciary, access to justice, corruption, penitentiary, women's rights

1990 – 1997              Ministry of Justice, Budapest, Hungary

                                        Deputy Secretary of State

Areas of responsibility: Criminal Law Legislation, International Public Law, Human rights, European Community Law.

Additional responsibilities: Chairman of the Intergovernmental Commission entrusted with the preparation of the ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights; Head of delegation in the United Nations Commission for Crime Prevention; Head of delegation in the Council of Europe Committee of Directors for Crime Problems (CDPC) and member of the Bureau of the CDPC; Agent of the Hungarian Government before the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights;

1990-1993: Co-chairman of the Commission on the law of criminal procedure

1990-1993                 Institute for Criminal Sciences, Eötvös LorándUniversity Budapest, Hungary

Director (part time)

Coordinating the academic activities of the Departments of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology

1989 – 1990              Ministry of Justice, Budapest, Hungary

Deputy Minister of Justice

1975 – 1989              Eötvös LorándUniversity Budapest, Hungary

Law Faculty, Department of Criminal Procedural Law (Courses in criminal procedure, comparative criminal justice, human rights and criminal law)

1987 – 1990; 1997 – present     Member of the Hungarian Bar

2001 – present       Member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute for Criminology

2000 – present         Member of the Scientific Council of the Hungarian Lawyers Association

1999 – 2007              Personal advisor of the Minister of Justice of Hungary

2009-2011                 Member of the Advisory Group to the European Commission on Post-Lisbon Criminal Law in the EU.

2006                             Nominated by the Hungarian Government to the International Criminal Court.

2003                             Expert and trainer of the IMF and the UN on responses to terrorism: freezing and confiscating assets.

1997 – present         Expert invited by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights primarily on questions of judicial independence, court organization, criminal law and criminal procedural law.

2002 – 2003              Vice-Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of the Convention against Corruption, held in Vienna.

2001                             Expert at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Tenth Session, Vienna)

1996 – 2001              Member of the Board of Trustees of the UN Interregional Crime Research and Criminal Justice Institute (UNICRI)

1994 – 2004              Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP)

1999 – 2004              Vice-Secretary General of the AIDP

1990 – 1997              Member of the Committee of Directors for Crime Problems (CDPC) of the Council of Europe; 1992-1997 member of the Bureau of the CDPC

1993 – 2013              Member of the Board of Directors of the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Crime Control (HEUNI)

1994-1997                 Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)

1992-1993                 Head of delegation in the UN Commission of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

1985                             Consultant, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI), Helsinki

1984                             Consultant, United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, Vienna

1994 – 2014              Chairman of the ESZTER Foundation (Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Sexual Violence)

1998 –2015               Member of the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Documentation and Information Center (INDOK)

1998 – 2003              Member of the Board of Directors of the Roma Civil Liberties Foundation (Roma Polgárjogi Alapítvány)

Author of several books, textbooks and teaching materials and of around 90 articles on criminal justice; social science and the criminal justice system; victimology; European criminal law; human rights (right to liberty; fair trial; procedure before the control organs of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, independence and impartiality of the judiciary) as well as on problems of historical and transitional justice in Hungarian, English, German, French, Dutch and Finnish; expert of the Council of Europe, the European Union and of OSCE (the criminal code and the code of criminal procedure of Russia, of Albania; the law on the courts of Azerbaijan and of Kazakhstan; law on compensation for detention Albania; the law on the Ministry of Justice, Georgia and Armenia; the compatibility of the Russian draft Penal Code with the ECHR; compatibility of the Albanian legal system with the ECHR; reducing delays in the administration of justice in Italy).

Rapporteur and key speaker at several international congresses and conferences, such as:

• European Criminal Bar Conference, Ljubljana, 1-2 October, 2010, The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty in the Field of Criminal Procedural Law
• The First Budapest Human Rights Forum. Budapest 28-29 August 2008
• The ICTY and Human rights: Towards a Fair Trial in International Criminal Procedure, 29-30 March 2007 Organized by The Law Faculty of the University of Graz, Forum Alpbach and Herbert-Batliner-Europainstitut
• International Conference on the European arrest warrant and its implementation in the member states of the European Union - current developments and the future, Kraków, 9-12 November 2006
• Council of Europe Criminological Research Conference, Strasbourg 1996
  Trial and sentencing, training and appointment of judges, structure of criminal procedure, sentencing patterns, the role of defense in the countries of transition
  • Annual Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Rechtsvergleichung, Berlin, 1994
    Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung von staatlich gesteuertem Unrecht
  • The World Congress of the International Association for Comparative Law, Athens 1994 Alternatives to imprisonment
  • Council of Europe Criminological Colloquy, Strasbourg 1991
    Young adult offenders

French                 Intermediate
Russian                Intermediate
Spanish                Reading
English                 Fluent
German               Fluent
Hungarian          Native