Szentgáli-Tóth, Boldizsár Artúr

Boldizsár Artúr Szentgáli-Tóth is a research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, as well as a researcher at the University of Public Service and an instructor at Eötvös Loránd University. He received his doctoral degree in February 2019 with his dissertation on the topic of legislation by qualified majority voting. His dissertation was published as a book by Eötvös Publishing House; it is currently being translated into English. Boldizsár published numerous papers in various areas of constiutional law in Hungarian, English and Spanish in domestic and international (Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish, Polish and Austrian) journals and volumes. He has been a participant in a considerable number of research projects, including the one led by Nóra Chronowski exploring the principles of democracy (code no. 128796). He is the leader of the Visegrad project studying elections during the Covid pandemic; a Hungarian-Slovenian bilateral research project on the implementation of the freedom of speech in the digital space; and the OTKA project on the latest perspectives of comparative constitutional law (code no. 138366). He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, and has presented his research findings on numerous occasions at national conferences, and more than twenty times at international events. In June 2018, he was among the speakers of the 10th World Congress of Constitutional Law in Seoul, Korea, while in October 2018, he gave a talk at the African Congress of Constitutional Lawyers in Gaborone, Botswana. In the past years, he has received several academic awards: he was awarded the scholarship of the New National Excellence Programme three times, the first prize of the Hungarian Bar Association twice, as well as the Youth Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the editorial board member of several journals.