Szechenyi Istvan University
Hungary
Vanda Lamm Professor Emeritus of international law in Hungary. Graduating from the University of Budapest, postgradual studies at the International Faculty of Comparative Law (France) and at the Hague Academy of International Law, visiting scholar at Columbia University. Received Ph.D. in Hungary, since 2007 member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.For more than 40 years she was research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, between 1991-2011 director of the Institute.Since 2001 member of the Institute of International Law, in 2009-2010 vice-president of the Institute. Between 1981 and 1983 Member of the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women.In 2020 elected to be Vice-President for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the first woman in that position.Author of 8 books and more than 200 articles on public international law and human rights, published in Hungarian, English and French.