András Jakab is a Schumpeter Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Legal Sciences from the University of Miskolc, Hungary (2007) and an LL.M in German Law from the University of Heidelberg (2005). He studied law in Salzburg and in Budapest (Pázmány), economics at the University of Western Hungary and Philosophy at the ELTE University of Budapest. Formerly he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (2010-2011); as a García-Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) in Madrid, Spain (2008-2010); as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool (2006-2008, subjects taught: English Legal Method, Jurisprudence); as a Lecturer in Law at the Nottingham Trent University (2004-2006, subjects taught: English Legal Method, European Union Law, and Public Law); as a Junior Research Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (2003-2004, Reference Topics: Comparative State Theory [vergleichende Staatslehre], South-Eastern Europe, Hungary, and Austria); as a Research and Teaching Assistant (egyetemi tanársegéd) for Administrative Law at the Calvinist University Károli Gáspár in Budapest, Hungary (2001-2003). He has published several books in Hungarian on legal theory (esp. theory of norms) and constitutional law. He is a member of the following learned societies: Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE) (European Association of Public Lawyers); European Society of International Law (ESIL); International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL, Individual Member); Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA; Member of the Public Body – köztestületi tag); The Society of Legal Scholars (U.K.).
