Staff Profiles

Csongor István Nagy is a professor in commercial law at the University of Galway School of Law. He is a recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University, an associate member of the Center for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, admitted to the Budapest Bar and listed at various arbitral institutions. He had visiting appointments in The Hague (Asser Institute), Munich (three times, at the Max Planck Institute), Brno (Masarykova University), Hamburg (Max Planck Institute), Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh), London (BIICL), Riga (Riga Graduate School of Law), Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University), Brisbane, Australia (University of Queensland), Beijing (China-EU School of Law), Taipei, Taiwan (National Chengchi University), Florence (European University Institute), Rome (LUISS) and Ann Arbor, Michigan (University of Michigan). He was senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation in Canada and Eurojus legal counsel in the European Commission's Representation in Hungary.

Professor Nagy graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (dr. jur.) in Budapest, where he also earned a Ph.D. He received master's (LL.M.) and S.J.D. degrees from the Central European University and a D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He pursued graduate studies in Rotterdam, Heidelberg and Ithaca, New York (Cornell University). He is fluent in English, German, Hungarian and Romanian and has a working knowledge of French.

Professor Nagy has more than 260 publications in English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian and (in translation) in Croatian and Spanish. His works have been cited, among others, by the Court of Justice of the European Union and Hungarian courts and have been relied upon in litigation before the US Supreme Court.