Judit Sandor JD, LLM, PhD

Judit Sandor is a full professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies, and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. 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), at Maison de sciences de l’homme (Paris), and at NYU (New York) as a Global Research Fellow. In 1996, she received a Ph.D. in law and political science. She was one of the founders of the first Patients' Rights Organization (‘Szószóló’) in Hungary, she was a member of the Hungarian Science and Research Ethics Council, and is currently a member of the Hungarian Human Reproduction Commission.
She participated in different national and international legislative, standard-setting setting and policy-making activities in the field of biomedical law and bioethics. In 2004-2005, she served as the Chief of the Bioethics Section at UNESCO. She published seven books in the field of human rights and biomedical law. Her works appeared in different languages, including Hungarian, English, French, and Portuguese. Since September 2005, she has been a founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at the Central European University.

She has completed ten European research projects (including GeneScreen, PUG, STRATA-ETAN GROUP, GeneBanC, PRIVIREAL, PRIVILEGED, Tiss.Eu, RemediE, EULOD, NANOPLAT), founded by the European Commission in the field of biobanks, genetic data, stem cell research, organ transplantation, and human reproduction.  In 2014-2016, she worked at the NERRI and the EUCElLEX Projects. In 2017, she participated in the HURMUR Project and continued her work also within the IANB network, coordinated by the University of Rennes. In 2017-2020, she also served on the ESOF Programme Committee with the mission of organizing the Euroscience Open Forum to be held in Toulouse and in Trieste. In  2019, she received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant with the "Leviathan" project.