Hungarian universities are facing increasing interference from government. The recent dismissal of Zoltán Ádám from Corvinus University in Budapest thus signals a worrying erosion of academic autonomy. For Gábor Halmai, Balázs Majtényi, and Andrew Richard Ryder, Ádám's dismissal reflects a pattern. They argue that a broader political agenda is threatening academic freedom, and raising questions about Hungary’s democratic integrity
Between 2016 and 2022 he was Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law at EUI's Law Department.
He served as Director of Graduate Studies at the Law Department, 2017–2021.
Gábor's primary research interests are comparative and European constitutional law.
He has published several books and articles, as well as edited volumes on these topics, in English, German and Hungarian.
He joined the EUI in 2016 after a teaching and research career (at the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, at the Princeton University in the USA, at the European Master's Program in Human Rights and Democratization in Italy) as well as years of professional career as chief advisor to the President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Management Board and numerous other civic activities.
Gábor is founder and editor-in-chief of Fundamentum, the Hungarian human right quarterly, and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Yearbook on Human Rights, and of the Review of Constitutionalism and Constitutional Change (RC3).
His recent research focuses on illiberal constitutional theories and developments in East-Central Europe.
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