Research Interests

• Prohibition of the threat or use of force
• United Nations Security Council
• International protection of human rights
• Humanitarian intervention
• Responsibility to protect
• Sources of international law
• History of international law
• Space law

Selected Publications

• Világűrjog [Space Law] (Bartóki-Gönczy, Balázs – Sulyok, Gábor eds.) Ludovika Egyetemi Kiadó, Budapest, 2022. 352 p.
• Treaties, Historical Origins, in Peters, Anne (ed.): The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. 14 p. [online]
• Világűr és önvédelem [Outer Space and Self-Defence], in Kajtár, Gábor – Sonnevend, Pál (eds.): A nemzetközi jog, az uniós jog és a nemzetközi kapcsolatok szerepe a 21. században: Tanulmányok Valki László tiszteletére [The Role of International Law, European Union Law and International Relations in the 21st Century: Studies in Honour of László Valki] ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, Budapest, 2021. 451-467.
• Breach of Treaties in the Ancient Near East. Journal of the History of International Law, 20/1. (2018), 31–56.
• General Principles of Law and International Law-Making, in Sampford, Charles – Zifcak, Spencer – Aydin Okur, Derya (eds.): Rethinking International Law and Justice. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, 2015. 313–331.
• Delimitation of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: A Conceptual Approach, in Sancin, Vasilka – Kovič Dine, Maša (eds.): Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice. GV Založba, Ljubljana, 2013. 727–761.
• A nemzetközi jog és a belső jog viszonyának alaptörvényi szabályozása a [The Relationship of International Law and Domestic Law under the Fundamental Law of Hungary] Jog – Állam – Politika, IV/1. (2012), 17–60.
• Az Egyesült Nemzetek Szervezetének Biztonsági Tanácsa: összetétel, szavazás, reform  [The United Nations Security Council: Composition, Voting, Reform] (Jog és Jogtudomány 19.) CompLex Wolters Kluwer, Budapest, 2009. 257 p.
• A terrorcselekmény elkövetéséhez használt polgári légi jármű lelövésének nemzetközi jogi és alkotmányjogi megítélése [An Assessment of the Destruction of Rogue Civil Aircraft under International Law and Constitutional Law] Fundamentum, 2005/3. 30–56.
• A humanitárius intervenció elmélete és gyakorlata  [The Theory and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention] Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest, 2004. 361 p.

Research Projects

Institution: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies (co-editor-in-chief, editor)

• Duration: since 2017
• Topic: Hungarian Open Access Encyclopaedia of Legal Scholarship

Institution: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies (participating researcher)

• Duration: 2018
• Topic: Human Rights Encyclopedia

Institution: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA T037311, participating researcher)

• Duration: 2002–2005
• Topic: Certain Problems of the Yugoslav Conflict in International Law

Institution: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai János Research Scholarship

• Duration: 2005–2008
• Topic: The Reform of the United Nations Security Council