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Fruzsina GÁRDOS-OROSZ

Fruzsina GÁRDOS-OROSZ

Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz is director and senior research fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and also associate professor in constitutional law at the ELTE Law School. She worked at the Hungarian Constitutional Court between 2003-2007 and 2010-2013 as law clerk in different positions. She has published extensively on the development of the Hungarian constitutional system, the  constitutional complaint procedure and on the competence of the constitutional court.
Fruzsina graduated in law at the ELTE University (Budapest, Hungary), and holds an LLM degree from Central European University in comparative constitutional law. In 2011, she earned her Ph.D on the possible scope and the methodology of the application of fundamental rights in private relations. She published extensively (over 100 publications) in Hungarian on the rule of law and separation of powers (and the position of the constituent power) with regard to judicial review and the protection of human rights. She published a book, book chapters and several articles in these topics mainly in Hungarian and English, but also in Slovakian and Russian. She is fluent in English and French, intermediate in German and native in Hungarian.
She is elected member of the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Association of Constitutional Lawyers and of the Advisory of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists. Since 2015, she is editor of the indexed and double blind peer-reviewed english language law journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Acta Juridica Hungarica and chief editor since 2017 of the Állam –és Jogtudomány, a Hungarian legal periodical of he Centre for Social Sciences.
 Related publications in English:

Unamendability as a judicial discovery? In Richard Albert and Yaniv Roznai (eds.): Unamendability. Springer 2017. forthcoming.

  • - Effective Legal Protection in administrative law in Hungary (co-authored with István Temesi) In The Principle of Effective Legal Protection in Administrative Law. A European Comparison. Eds. Zoltán Szente and Konrad Lachmayer. London: Routledge, 2016.
  • - The Protection of Fundamental Rights in Private Law: Hungary In: Vernica Trstenjak – Petra Weingerl (eds): The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law. Genf: Springer International Publishing, 2015. pp. 391-419.
  • (Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law; 15.)
  • - The regulation of offensive speech in the new Hungarian Civil Code. ELTE Law Journal 2015/1. 13-123.
  • - Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: A Theoretical Approach. In: Luka Burazin – Djordje Gardasevic – Alessio Sardo (eds.): Law and state: Classical Paradigms and new proposals
  • - Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; New York; Paris; Wien: Peter Lang Verlag, 2015. pp. 121-136.
  • - Preliminary Reference and the Hungarian Constitutional Court: A Context of Non-Reference. German Law Journal 16 (6) pp. 1569-1590 (2015)
  • - The appointment and removal of judges in Hungary: efforts, reforms and constitutional controversies . Przeglad Prawa Konstytucyjnego (6) pp. 81-103. (2015).
  • - Citizens“s rights to constitutional adjudication in Hungary In Smuk Péter (ed.): The Transformation of the Hungarian Legal System 2010-2013. Budapest: CompLex Wolters Kluwer, 2013. pp. 117-131.
  • - The Constitutional and Statutory Framework of the Application of EU Law in Hungary. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Juridica 8. (4) pp. 315-337 (2013)
  • - The Hungarian constitutional court in transition: from actio popularis to constitutional complaint. Acta Juridica Hungarica – The Hungarian Journal for Legal Studies 53:(4) pp. 302-315. (2012)

See also: http://jog.tk.mta.hu/kutato/gardos-orosz-fruzsina