Dr. Márton Sulyok
This fall we welcome Dr. Márton Sulyok, as Post-Graduate Visiting Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Sulyok will focus on the intersections of law and technology, and specifically on how technological change impacts traditional concepts of public and constitutional law.
Dr. Sulyok completed his JD studies in 2007 at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Following his graduation, he started his doctoral studies in Szeged, in pursuit of a PhD in law and political sciences. He also enrolled in the joint certificate program of the University of Toledo College of Law and Szeged Law School in American Law, which he completed in 2009. In 2012, after starting at the Constitutional Law Department in Szeged, teaching and researching constitutional law and human rights, he completed an LLM in Anglo-Saxon Legal Translation.
Dr. Márton Sulyok
In the following years, besides teaching at various universities and institutions, he interned at the Paris Embassy of Hungary in 2011 and 2012. Between 2014 and 2019, he worked for the cabinet of the Ministry of Justice as a scientific advisor. During this time, he defended his PhD dissertation in 2017, with summa cum laude, on the comparative constitutional assessment of the use of unlawfully obtained electronic evidence in civil procedure.
Márton has been teaching constitutional law and human rights for more than 15 years at his alma mater in Szeged, where he also served as Program Director (2014-2021) for an English-language MA program in International Relations and has taught various Hungarian and American legal subjects in English in different training programs of the Szeged Law School and at other schools of the University. He is a regular member of the teaching faculty in different summer and MA programs at Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder, Germany, focusing specifically on European human rights protection and international humanitarian law (since 2016).
Dr. Sulyok sat on the Management Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, representing Hungary (2015-2020) and on the Editorial Committee of the Annual Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (2016-2018). Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and of the European Group of Public Law, the Scientific Committee of EPLO. He is on the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Association of Constitutionalists and has previously served as the Public Law Correspondent for the Hungarian Lawyer’s Association. He is also the editor-in-chief of the blog Constitutional Discourse, focusing on creating a forum of Euro-American dialogue on issues of global concern.
In 2020 he started working at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, in Budapest where he leads the Public Law Center of the Law School. As part of MCC’s academic leadership, he has visited many US law schools, chaired a panel at an international conference in Cambridge, MA at Harvard Law, discussed Adrian Vermuele’s work on Common Good Constitutionalism, and was published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy on the Hungarian relevance and view of this novel approach to constitutional interpretation.
“I am convinced that a trans-Atlantic, Euro-American approach is always paramount in addressing the challenges of technology in reshaping public law for the 21st century, focusing on constitutional, administrative as well as IT-law, as much as on regulation. The latter is a good example because the European and American views on the form and extent of necessary regulation differ greatly in a comparative perspective, but there are important lessons to be learned from both sets of arguments.” – Dr. Márton Sulyok