Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy is associate professor at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and head of department of the Department of Constitutional Law at the same institution (since 2021). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and of the Association of Hungarian Constitutional Lawyers, as well as member of Editorial Boards of several Hungarian journals.
He has been the Rector’s commissioner-general for student affairs at the ELTE University between 2013-2018. He served as the director of the ELTE Bibó István College of Advanced Studies between 2008-2012 and as an elected member of the National Election Commission of Hungary between 2010-2013. Previously he worked as a legal officer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an NGO working for the protection of fundamental rights and the enforcement of the rule of law.
He holds a PhD degree in Constitutional Law (2014) and hablitation (2021) from the ELTE University. His research fields cover the doctrine and methodology related to the principle of proportionality, as well as the current doctrinal and practical challenges related to constitutional adjudication and the princile of separation of powers, especially in Central and Eeastern European region. He was a visiting lecturer at the Sapientia University in Cluj (Romania), the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland) and the Univeristy of Victoria (Canada).
Selected publications
- Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy: The Invisible Separation of Powers and the Control of the Central Political Power: Lessons from Hungary, Moldova and Romania In: Martin Belov (ed.) Populist Constitutionalism and Illiberal Democracies Cambridge (UK) Intersentia (2021)
- Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy: Direct Democracy and the Separation of Power In: Luca Pietro Vanoni, Antonia Baraggia and Cristina Fasone (eds.) New Challenges to the Separation of Powers Cheltenham (UK) Edward Elgar Publishing (2020)
- Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy and Yaniv Roznai: Timing of Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendment: Towards a ’Time Sensitivity Test’ Following the Moldovan Constitutional Court’s Decision on the Modality of Electing the President In: Sofia Ranchordás and Yaniv Roznai (eds.) Time, Law and Change. An Interdisciplinary Study Oxford (UK) Hart Publishing (2020)
- Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy: The Hungarian Constitutional Court as a Law-Maker: Various Tools and Changing Roles In: Monika Florczak-Wator (ed.) Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts Abingdon (UK) Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2020)
- Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy: The Canadian Approach to Fundamental Rights Disputes: Methodological Exceptionalism in Constitutional Interpretation and Proportionality Reasoning In: ELTE Law Journal 2017/2