Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz is director and senior research fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and also associate professor in constitutional law at the ELTE Law School. She worked at the Hungarian Constitutional Court between 2003-2007 and 2010-2013 as law clerk in different positions. She has published extensively on the development of the Hungarian constitutional system, the constitutional complaint procedure and on the competence of the constitutional court.
Fruzsina graduated in law at the ELTE University (Budapest, Hungary), and holds an LLM degree from Central European University in comparative constitutional law. In 2011, she earned her Ph.D on the possible scope and the methodology of the application of fundamental rights in private relations. She published extensively (over 100 publications) in Hungarian on the rule of law and separation of powers (and the position of the constituent power) with regard to judicial review and the protection of human rights. She published a book, book chapters and several articles in these topics mainly in Hungarian and English, but also in Slovakian and Russian. She is fluent in English and French, intermediate in German and native in Hungarian.
She is elected member of the Advisory Board of the Hungarian Association of Constitutional Lawyers and of the Advisory of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists. Since 2015, she is editor of the indexed and double blind peer-reviewed english language law journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Acta Juridica Hungarica and chief editor since 2017 of the Állam –és Jogtudomány, a Hungarian legal periodical of he Centre for Social Sciences.
