The department offers advanced degree programs in comparative constitutional law, human rights, and international business law. The curriculum combines international and regional intellectual traditions and offers students hands-on experience and internship opportunities. Outstanding professors, including recurrent visitors from leading universities around the world introduce students to state-of-the art legal research, reasoning, and writing, enabling them to compete successfully for jobs in various fields of legal practice and research.
By the decision of the Selection Committee, Professor Andras Sajo and Professor Renata Uitz, from the Department of Legal Studies have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 CEU Award for Outstanding Research. The award recognizes outstanding research by CEU faculty that has had a significant international impact.
LEGS CEU alumnus, Dr Williams Iheme, is currently a visiting lecturer at Strathmore University Law School, Nairobi, where he is teaching two LLM courses, namely: Comparative Insolvency Law, and Contract Law: Negotiation, Drafting and Management.
The book addresses hot topics of international trade with papers on Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. It is based on the proceedings of the international conference that took place on 12 April 2017 at the University of Szeged, entitled “Missed and New Opportunities in World Trade: Is Trump China’s Trump in World Trade?” Besides the editors of the book, Csongor István Nagy (CEU visiting faculty) and Zoltán Víg, who are CEU alumni, two more contributions stem from under the pen of CEU-linked authors.
