Introduction
Judit Sándor is a full professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU-PU), in Budapest and in Vienna. She had a bar exam in Hungary she conducted legal practice at Simmons & Simmons in London, had fellowships at McGill (Montreal), at Stanford (Palo Alto), and at Maison de sciences de l’homme (Paris). In 1996 she received her Ph.D. in law and political science. She was a Global Research Fellow at NYU in New York.
In 2004-2005 she was the head of the Bioethics Section at the UNESCO. She published eleven books in the field of human rights and biomedical law. Since September 2005 she is a founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB). She has completed many European research projects in the field of biobanks, genetic data, stem cell research, organ transplantation and human reproduction. In October 2019 she received an ERC Synergy Grant.
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Judit Sándor is a full professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU-PU), in Budapest and in Vienna. She had a bar exam in Hungary she conducted legal practice at Simmons & Simmons in London, had fellowships at McGill (Montreal), at Stanford (Palo Alto), and at Maison de sciences de l’homme (Paris). In 1996 she received her Ph.D. in law and political science. She was a Global Research Fellow at NYU in New York.
In 2004-2005 she served as the Chief of the Bioethics Section at the UNESCO. Since September 2005 she is a founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at the Central European University. She has completed many European research projects in the field of biobanks, genetic data, stem cell research, organ transplantation and human reproduction. She published eleven books in the field of human rights and biomedical law. Her Articles and books are in English, in French, in Hungarian, in Portuguese, and in Spanish. Her books are on medical malpractice, on biopolitics, on molecularization, on the Hungarian medical law, on genetics, on biobanks, on reproductive cloning and on stem cell research. Since October 2019 she received an ERC Synergy Grant with a team of four European researchers. In 2021 she was teaching in Zürich at the UZH and at the Global Scholar Program of the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy.
Fields of expertise: Science policy, technology and innovation policy