Zsolt Körtvélyesi

Zsolt Körtvélyesi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellow at Central European University, Vienna. He is currently on leave from his positions in Budapest, at the Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and at the Department of Human Rights and Politics of the ELTE Social Science Faculty. He holds a law degree (U. of Szeged, 2006) with specialization in French Law (U. of Paris Nanterre, 2005) and European Studies (U. of Szeged, 2005), a Nationalism Studies MA (Central European U., 2009), an LL.M. (Harvard Law School, 2014, on Fulbright Scholarship), and an S.J.D. (Central European U., 2016).

He has research experience in questions of nationalism and comparative constitutional law, regarding issues of citizenship and minority protection in particular, and human rights in the EU in the pre- and post-accession context. His recent publications include ‘Transcending the Individual/Collective Minority Rights Divide: A Procedural Solution’ (International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2022), ‘The Illiberal Challenge in the EU: Exploring the Parallel with Illiberal Minorities and the Example of Hungary’ (European Constitutional Law Review, 2020/4), ‘EU enlargement policy and human rights’ (The European Union and Human Rights, OUP, 2020, with Beáta Huszka).