Csongor István Nagy

Csongor István Nagy Ph.D., LL.M., S.J.D, dr. juris is a professor of law in Hungary, the head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged, Faculty of Law, in Szeged, Hungary, research chair and head of the Federal Markets “Momentum” Research Group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,^[1] and an attorney-at-law admitted to the Budapest Bar. Furthermore, he is visiting professor at the Central European University^[2], the Sapientia University of Transylvania^[3] and the Riga Graduate School of Law.^[4]

Biography

Nagy graduated at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), at the Faculty of Law in Budapest, in 2003, where he also earned a PhD. During his studies he became a member of Eötvös Loránd University István Bibó College of Law and Political Sciences.^[5] He received master (LL.M) and S.J.D degree from the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.^[6] He pursued graduate and postgraduate studies in Rotterdam, Heidelberg and New York.^[7]

He had visiting appointments in the Hague (Asser Institute), Munich (Max Planck Institute), Hamburg (Max Planck Institute), Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh), London (British Institute of International and Comparative Law) and was Fulbright visiting professor at the Indiana University Bloomington.^[8] He was Eurojus legal adviser in the European Commission’s Representation in Hungary.

In 2014, he won the “Momentum II” grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which is awarded to “internationally recognized leading scholars, who have a steadily outstanding and increasing performance”.^[9] In the frame of this, he founded the “Federal Markets” Research Group in the HAS Center for Social Sciences.^[1]

Bibliography

Prof. Nagy has published more than 150 pieces in English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian and (in translation) in Croatian and Spanish, among others, in the following periodicals: Acta Juridica Hungarica, Arbitration International, American Review of International Arbitration, Columbia Journal of European Law, Európai Jog, European Competition Law Review, European Law Review, German Law Journal, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, IPRAX, Jogtudományi Közlöny, Journal of Private International Law, London Law Review, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Magyar Jog, Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht, Osteuropa-Recht, Revista Română de Drept al Afacerilor, Revista Română de Drept European, Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé, Revue Internationale de Droit Comparé, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, World Competition Law and Economics Review, Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union. He is also an editor of the „Verseny és Szabályozás” (“Competition and Regulation”) yearbook (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Institute of Economics).[5] A selection of his monographs that were written in English:^[10]

• Private international law in Hungary. Kluwer Law International, 2012.^[11]
• EU and US Competition Law: Divided in Unity? Ashgate Publishing, 2013.^[12]
• Competition law in Hungary. Kluwer Law International, 2016.^[13]
• The Procedural Aspects of the Application of Competition Law. Europa Law Publishing, 2016 (as editor)^[14]

His works have been widely cited, for instance, in European Court of Justice cases (Case C-350/14 Florin Lazar^[15] & Case C-373/14, Toshiba Corporation v. Commission^[16]) and by Hungarian courts (Hungarian Supreme Court in Case Kfv.III.37.582/2016/16, Budapest Court of Appeals in Case 14.Gf.40.137/2010/5 & ÍH 2011.73 and Budapest Court in Case 22.G.41.893/2009/60)^[17].

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