Tamás Szabados works as an associate professor of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He obtained an LLM degree from the University College London and completed research stay at several renowned universities. His fields of interests include international cultural property protection law, EU law and private international law. In particular, he did research and published several articles on the private international law aspects of cultural property and the EU regulation of the trade of cultural goods. With his article ‘In Search of the Holy Grail of the Conflict of Laws of Cultural Property’, he won the Pierre Lalive and John Henry Merryman Fellowship in 2021 for the best article published in the International Journal of Cultural Property Law by an author under 40 years of age. In 2021, he was selected among the five winners of the UNIDROIT Covid-19 Essay Competition with my paper on "The Global Pandemic as an Opportunity: Towards a Cutting-Edge Legal ‘App’ for Online Art Trade". He teaches and gives lectures on the legal aspects of the protection of cultural property and art trade.