AndrásJakab (PhD, dr. habil.) is the Director of the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for
Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest where he also holds a
tenured research chair, and he is a Schumpeter Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg where he is currently leading a
five years project on comparative constitutional reasoning. Formerly he held different research
and teaching positions at the PázmányPéter Catholic University in Budapest (2010-2011); at the
Centro de EstudiosPolíticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) in Madrid (2008-2010); at the University
of Liverpool (2006-2008); at the Nottingham Trent University (2004-2006); at the Max Planck
Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2003-2004); and at
the Calvinist University KároliGáspár in Budapest (2001-2003). His main research interests are
legal theory, EU law, constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law. Email:
jakab.andras@tk.mta.hu.