Helen Roy is a mother and writer, focusing on family policy, women’s issues, and culture. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Chinese Language from Wofford College as a Phi Beta Kappa.

Helen earned a Masters in Statecraft and National Security at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, where she focused on communism and postcommunism while working under the Directorate of Analysis at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Helen is a fellow at the Claremont Institute for Political Philosophy, a featured author for Fairer Disputations, and a lifestyle editor at Blaze Media.

Currently, she hosts the podcast The Female of the Species (formerly Girlboss, Interrupted) and runs her Substack Roy House in Budapest (formerly Ladies’ Late Rome Journal).

Helen believes that family policy, aesthetics, as well as cultural narratives around marriage, motherhood, fatherhood, and friendship are foundational to national thriving, and hopes to play some part in revitalizing positive attitudes toward these things — building a more family-friendly America — through her work.

The Danube Institute was established by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in 2013 in Budapest, with the aim of encouraging the transmission of ideas and people within the countries of Central Europe and between Central Europe, other parts of Europe, and the English-speaking world.

The Institute itself has been committed from its foundation to three philosophical loyalties: a respectful conservatism in cultural, religious, and social life, the broad classical liberal tradition in economics, and a realistic Atlanticism in national security policy. These ideals remain our lodestars.

Mónika got her law degree at the University of Miskolc, with a specialization as an English legal translator, and completed a course in AI and Law at the University of Lisbon. She is pursuing a PhD at the Doctoral School of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, where her research topic examines how constitutional identity manifests itself in essential state functions of the Member States of the European Union.

Mónika has over fifty scientific publications and was invited to present her research at several national and international conferences including the Hungarian Lawyers Association’s 45th Congress of Lawyers, the MIPRO Conference in Opatija, and many others.

Mónika has been involved in a number of international research projects, dealing with topics of constitutional law and EU law, as well as AI-related topics. Her active participation in such projects has resulted in the publication of several papers in journals, and a soon-available textbook for law students, where she is co-writing a chapter on data protection issues.

She is a founding editor of Constitutional Discourse, leading the Privacy & Data Protection column. She is currently the international director of Central European Lawyers Initiative, was previously the Secretary General of The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Miskolc (2020-2022), and is a member of Aurum Foundation, Hungarian Lawyers Association, the Hungarian Association of Competition Law, and the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Hungary. In all of these initiatives, she organizes professional events, participates in table talks, and arranges social gatherings, as she believes that building a community is a key element of both professional and personal life.

She has been a junior researcher at the Public Law Center of Mathias Corvinus Collegium and has gained essential experience working for the Hungarian Competition Authority, The National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, the Office of the National Assembly, the Miskolc Regional Court, and as a mentor at Károli Gáspár University’s Bocskai István College of Excellence’s Public Law Center.

The GW Competition & Innovation Lab is a team of passionate scholars dedicated to promoting innovation and competition through research and education.

Daniel Whitehead is a former Assistant General Counsel to Governor Ron DeSantis. He clerked for two federal appellate courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for Judge Daniel Manion and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims for Judge Joseph Leo Toth. Daniel also worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

He is a John Marshall Fellow of the Claremont Institute and a Fellow of the James Wilson Institute.

Evelyn Whitehead grew up traveling the United States as the oldest of six in a proud Navy family. Evelyn’s parents sacrificed to provide their children with a wonderful Catholic education through Seton Home Study School.

Evelyn attended Franciscan University of Steubenville where she majored in Philosophy and participated in the Great Books Honors Program and the Dietrich von Hildebrand Project student fellowship. Some of the highlights of college included a semester-long study abroad spent in Gaming, Austria—one of the most beautiful places in the world. Her academic focus at Franciscan was personalism and phenomenology through the lens of John Paul II’s spirituality.

After a two-year academic hiatus, Evelyn accepted a scholarship to attend Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida. During law school, Evelyn served on the Ave Maria Law Review Executive Board, worked as a research assistant to Dean Emeritus Eugene Milhizer and Professor Stephen Mikochik, received the St. Raymond of Penyafort Commencement Award for Excellence in Writing, and graduated summa cum laude. Most importantly, Evelyn met her husband, Daniel, during the first week.

Before moving to Budapest with her husband, Evelyn clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims for Judge Scott Laurer. Prior to that, she was the Associate Director for the Freedom of Thought Project and for Practice Groups at the Federalist Society. Evelyn is a Fellow of the Good Counselor Project with Napa Legal Institute, Americans United for Life, and the Dietrich von Hildebrand Project student fellowship program.

Axioma Center is a christian think tank that strivers to impact society through research, education and media that are grounded in faith and reason.

Their goal is to contribute to individual and social fulfillment, protect human dignity and promote the common good.

Charles Yockey is a policy analyst within the Manhattan Institute’s Centers for Legal Affairs and Constitutional Studies. In Budapest, he is a visiting researcher within Mathias Corvinus Collegium’s Center for International Law.

In the past, Yockey has worked in both the public and private sectors—he has held public policy fellowships, worked in investment banks, aided a federal prosecutor, and interned as a speechwriter for a U.S. Senator. In the future, he intends to attend law school in the United States. He aspires to promote greater transatlantic understanding by facilitating collaboration between the public and private sectors as a diplomat, financier, or policymaker.

The legacy of Roman law is understanding law as the “ the art of goodness and equity.” Accordingly, a lawyer not only examines past and interprets the present but ultimately shapes the future through the decisions and rules they make. Being a lawyer is a vocation with unique vision and a structured way of thinking. Thus, the primary goal of the MCC School of Law is to transmit the knowledge, ethos, culture, and practice necessary to excel in this profession.

MCC’s diverse range of courses provides knowledge and a way of thinking which cannot be obtained in a traditional university, giving our students a competitive edge on a national and international level.