Judit Zeller

Judit Zeller is a visiting researcher at CEU. She studied Law and Psychology at the University of Pécs and Law at Trier University. She received her Ph.D. in Law in 2009. Since then, Judit has been conducting research on biomedical issues and bioethics, with a special focus on the 21st-century context and challenges of reproductive rights and end-of-life decisions. She provides lectures for legal and medical professionals.

Judit was the co-leader of the project "University Clinics: Providing Access to Palliative Care," supported by the OSF (2016), and the project leader of the "Legal Clinic Summer School Network," supported by the Visegrad Fund (2015). In 2012-2013, she obtained a Hungarian National Excellence Fellowship for postdoctoral fellows. Besides bioethics, she has conducted research on fundamental rights in the labour law context and participated in the University of Pécs Research Group of Comparative and European Employment Policy and Labour Law of the Hungarian Academy of Science (2012-2017).

As a practicing lawyer, she worked as a legal officer and psychologist at the national torture prevention mechanism of the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary. She currently works as a senior expert at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.

RESEARCH AREAS
Human Rights Studies
Constitutions, Law and Regulations

LANGUAGES SPOKEN
English
German
French
Hungarian