The URPP H2R hosted Prof. Judit Sándor from Central European University as a visiting professor in October 2021.

Prof. Judit Sándor is a full professor at the Department of Political Science, the Department of Law and the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU). She is admitted to the Hungarian Bar and worked at Simmons & Simmons based in London. She has conducted research at New York University (NYU), the University of Chicago, the University of Stanford, McGill University in Montreal, and the Maison de sciences de l'homme in Paris. In 2004 - 2005, Prof. Judit Sándor headed the Bioethics Division of UNESCO in Paris and in this capacity led various missions to Australia, Namibia and Russia. She also participated in Hungarian and international legislative processes in the fields of medical law and bioethics.

Since 2005, Prof. Judit Sándor has been a founding member and director of CELAB (Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine) at CEU, where research is conducted on the ethical, legal and social significance of biotechnology.

Prof. Judit Sándor has also been involved in numerous research projects funded by the European Union. Most recently, she received the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy research grant as part of a recognized research team with the research project LEVIATHAN (Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good).

She has published numerous books, academic works as well as newspaper articles in Hungarian, English and French in the fields of human rights and bioethics. She is also the editor of several internationally recognized journals in the fields of health law, policy and philosophy. She was a member of the Hungarian Ethics Council for Science and Research and is a member of the Hungarian Commission for Human Reproduction.