Hungler, Sára

Sára Hungler is a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  She is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, ELTE and a researcher at the Institute for Legal Sciences of the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary. She pursued her JD studies at the Faculty of Law, ELTE and Temple University, Japan Campus. After graduation, she worked for multinational management consulting companies in Warsaw and Tokyo for five years. She then returned to Budapest and started her doctoral studies. She earned her PhD in 2015 at the doctoral school of ELTE. Her postgraduate studies focus on social integration under the European Pillar of Social Rights in the Visegrád countries. Her specific research area is mixed methods, where cluster theory is verified with functional comparative legal and empirical methods in the domain of social law. She is a member of the editorial board of the Online Encyclopaedia of Legal Science (IJOTEN). She serves as a member of the scientific council of Cross Border Benefits Alliance Europe (CBBA-Europe) and the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AIEP); she is also a member of the Hungarian Association of Labour Lawyers. She was awarded a scholarship by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2016 and won a postdoctoral scholarship from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. She has been actively participating in several international research groups. She has authored more than 50 international and national journal articles and book chapters. Her first book was published in 2020. She is married with three children.