JUDIT SANDOR

Professor

Contact

Email: Sandorj(at)ceu.hu
Office: Nador 9. room 806
Phone: (36-1) 327-3000 ext. 3083

Education:

Ph.D. in political science and law.

Research Areas:

Human rights - women’s rights, biomedical ethics and law, privacy.

Selected Publications

Sandor, Judit (2003) Medical Law. Hungary. International Encyclopaedia of Laws, The Hague, London, New York: Kluwer Law International, 2003, The Hague, London, New York, pp. 1-148

Sandor, Judit [2003] Society and Genetic Information. Codes and Laws in the Genetic Era, Budapest: CEU Press, Budapest-New York pp.5-422

Andre den Exter and Sandor, Judit and (eds.) [2003] Frontiers of the European Health Care Law: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Press, Rotterdam. ISBN 90-807487-2-2 pp ii.-219.

Sandor, Judit (2004) “Protection of Health Care Data in Hungarian Law” in: Deryck Beyleveld, David Townend, Segolene Rouille-Mirza, Jessica Wright’ Implementation of the Data Protection Directive in Relation to Medical research in Europe Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004 pp. 157-175

Sandor, Judit, (2003), “Protecting Patients’ rights? A Comparative Study of the Ombudsman in healthcare ” in: Lars Fallberg (ed) Ombudsman in the Health Care Sector, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003

Sandor, Judit, (2000),”The Hungarian Legislative Approach to Assisted Procreation: An Attempt at Transparency” in: Jennifer Gunning (ed)” Assisted Conception” Ashgate, Dartmouth pp. 139-153

Sandor, Judit, (1999) “Genetic Testing, Genetic Screening, and Privacy.” In Ruth Chadwick et al. Eds.: The Ethics of Genetic Screening. Aldershot: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 181-190.

Sandor, Judit, (2002) “Reproduction, Self, and State” in: Social Research, Vol. 69, No.1 (Spring 2002) pp.115-142

Current Research Projects:

Human Body and Law, - Regulating biotechnology - Introduction to the Problem:

The storage and the different uses of human body and body parts have recently become a central issue in ethics and legal debates. Expanding the human life span has become a scientific project as it transformed from an object of utopian desire to mundane biotechnological bricolage. Recycling our biological building blocks and reprogramming our stem cells in place of the earlier surgical and biochemical treatment methods has made it possible to rebuild, quite literally, certain parts of our body.

These scientific advances invoke new questions concerning the philosophical relationship between the body and person. To what extent are we able to control and to make informed decisions on the extra-corporal or implanted elements of body? Considering these bodily changes from ethical and legal perspectives, not only body images are affected but individual expectations and even personality rights may change.

Awards and Honors

2003 March Appointed as an expert on genetics and law at the Advisory Group of the Hungarian Prime Minister

2002-2003 Member of the Drafting Group of the IBC on the preparation of International Declaration on Human Genetic Data (UNESCO) 2002

1996-2000 Representative and one of the founders of the Hungarian Patients’ Rights Foundation Szoszolo

Former Member of the Advisory Board of the Council of Europe, Euro-Forum on Human Genetics, 1999-2000

Former Member of the Working Party on Biotechnology (CDBI-Biotech), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 1999

Recent Course Offerings

Reproduction, Self, and State

Contemporary Interpretations of Privacy

Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy

Human Rights and Bioethics: A New Generation of Rights?

Privacy and Data Protection

Human Rights in the 21st Century

Favorite Pastime in Budapest

Music, dance, theatre