Jenö Czuczai
Visiting professor, European Legal Studies Department
Principal Jurist, Legal Service of the Council of the EU /since 1 April 2006 - /.
Chief Legal Adviser to the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU in Budapest at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerial Cabinet) between 1 December 2010 and 1 July 2011 (seconded from the General Secretariate of the Council).
Professor at the College of Europe Bruges and Natolin (Warsaw) since 1997-98 Academic Year.
He obtained a Doctorate with summa cum laude in Legal and Political Sciences from the ELTE University, Budapest (1991). He followed postgraduate studies inter alia in Rome (IDLI), Dallas (AAIL), Brussels (Yale University), Salzburg (University of Sacramento), London (King's College). He was Head of Unit (Prime Minister Office, 1991) and later on Director of the different Hungarian Privatization Institutions (1992-1995). He was Legal Adviser to the EC Delegation, Budapest (1995-2001). He taught EU Law, approximation of laws and legal transitology at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University since 1995. He founded the teaching of EU law at the Károli Gáspár Protestant University in Budapest (2002-2006). He was Vice-President of the European Law Academy, Budapest (1999-2006). He is Member of the Budapest Bar Association since 2001- (and practising registered attorney at law between 2001-2006). He was founding President of the Hungarian FIDE Association (2003-2006). He was legal consultant on approximation of laws and reforming of national judiciaries to several Governments in Central and Eastern Europe /2001-2005/ and in the Western Balkan /2004-2006/. He was succesful in an EU (EPSO) concours for Head of Unit posts (AD/12) in 2005. He chaired the session of the XXIII. FIDE Congress (in Linz, 2008) on the Services Directive as well as the session of the XXIV. FIDE Congress (in Madrid, 2010) on the role of national Parliaments in the EU after Lisbon. He chaired the panel on Central and Eastern European experiences of the XLIX. London-Leiden Colloquium in Leiden on 'Courts and jurisdictions-application of EU law in an enlarging EU' (2010). Since 1997, he has been invited speaker at more than 20 international conferences. He is member of ASIL and ESIL. He is the author, co-author, editor, co-editor of 13 books, and author of more than 80 articles.
His most recent publications: /i/ The impact of EU accession on the legal orders of new Member States and /pre-/ Candidate Countries- Hopes and fears /Eds: J. Czuczai- S. Blockmans et alts as well as he is the author of two Chapters in this book/, T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 2006 /ii/ J. Czuczai: Citizenship of the enlarging EU in light of the new Constitution in ‘Les principes fondamentaux de la Constitution européenne’ /Eds: C. Kaddous-A. Auer/, Dossier de Droit européen , Bruylant, Paris 2006, pp. 279-300, /iii/ J. Czuczai : Ratification of the European Constitution in Hungary : Problems and challenges in ‘The European Constitution and National Constitutions :ratification and beyond’ /Eds : J. Ziller-A. Albi/, Kluwer International, 2007, pp. 29-37, /iv/ J. Czuczai: Mixity in practice-problems and their (possible and real) solutions in ‘Mixed agreements-revisited-The EU and its Member States in the World’ (Eds: P-Koutrakos-C. Hillion), Hart Publishing, Oxford 2010, pp.231-248.; /v/ J. Czuczai: The increasing impact of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on the interaction between European law and national law after Lisbon- a practical overlook from Hungary in "Das Verhältnis von nationalem Recht und Europarecht im Wandei der Zeit" (Ed: Jürgen Schwartze), Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs University, 2011 (under publishing)