Selected Alumni Profiles

Andreea Costa

“[CEU] shaped me into a versatile thinker and problem solver,” says Andreea Costa, a graduate of the LL.M. in International Business Law program at CEU.

Berihun Adugna Gebeye

April 27, 2021

CEU offers a world-class education to its diverse student body with an internationally and comparatively oriented curriculum taught by some of the leading scholars in their fields,” says Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, a CEU graduate with an LLM in Human Rights and an SJD. He is currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius

April 27, 2021

“The most important takeaway from my CEU studies was that human rights are not only universal, but also indivisible and interrelated,” says Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, a graduate of the M.A. in Human Rights program and the Chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania.

Butorac Malnar, Vlatka

September 28, 2015

Vlatka Butorac Malnar is an alumni of both the LEGS IBL LLM program (generation 2000/2001), and LEGS SJD program, from which she graduated in 2005 by successfully defending her SJD dissertation in EC competition law, supervised by prof. Stefan Messmann. The knowledge acquired at the CEU, and the degrees obtained there from enabled her to pursue an academic career at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia, where she has been employed since 2006.

János Fiala

September 28, 2015

Janos has always been interested in minority rights, but after beginning his studies at CEU, he developed a specific interest in disability rights and the rights of detainees. Since studying at CEU, Janos has been a human rights lawyer in various positions and disciplines, being driven by a mission to “improve the world” as he puts it. Currently, Janos is a Lecturer at the School of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Meanwhile, he practices human rights law and international litigation.