Acting head, Institute for Children’s Rights and Family Law
Introduction
As a researcher at the Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc and acting director of the Institute for Children’s Rights and Family Law, Dr. Márta Benyusz contributes to the Academy’s scientific and professional activities, with a particular focus on children’s rights, family law, and international and comparative legal research. Through her professional work, she contributes to strengthening Central European legal cooperation, improving the professional quality of research programs, and integrating scientific and practical approaches to children’s rights and family law issues into the Academy’s activities.
In her work, she pays particular attention to sharing international experiences in the field of children’s rights, applying a comparative legal approach, and incorporating practical legal experience into academic work.
As part of her duties, she cooperates with the Academy’s management, the staff of the Research Center, and the professional participants of the Central European Professors’ Network and the Central European Junior Program.
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Dr. Márta Benyusz
Acting head, Institute for Children’s Rights and Family Law
More about work
A key part of Dr. Márta Benyusz’s professional activities is her participation in the international professional work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. As the acting head of the Institute for Research on Children’s Rights and Family Law at the Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc, she is responsible for the professional coordination and management of research on children’s rights and family law. Her areas of research include the international and comparative legal approach to children’s rights, institutional issues of family law and child protection, child-friendly justice, and the links between children’s rights and religion, with particular regard to the enforcement of children’s rights within the Catholic Church. In her work, she pays particular attention to strengthening cooperation in legal scholarship in Central Europe, sharing international experiences in children’s rights, applying a comparative legal approach, and incorporating practical legal experience into academic work.
Dr. Márta Benyusz is the president of the Association for Children’s Rights, where she plays an active role in promoting children’s rights domestically and internationally, as well as coordinating professional programs and projects. She is the professional coordinator of the annual Children’s Rights Days international conference and provided professional support for the launch of the International and Comparative Children’s Rights LL.M. program, which is supported by the Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc (CEA UM).
For more than three years, she headed the International and European Law Department of the Ferenc Mádl Institute for Comparative Law, where she was involved in the management and organization of international and comparative legal research. Previously, she worked as a children’s rights advisor for the Office of the Conference of Hungarian Monastic Superiors, and has participated in numerous domestic and international projects dealing with children’s rights. She began her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then gained practical experience at the French international law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel d’Ornano prior to taking her bar exam.
She studied law at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, where she obtained her law degree, and then completed an LL.M. in European and International Economic Law in English at the same university. She is currently a student at the Doctoral School of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, where her research focuses on children’s rights in the Catholic Church.
As a lawyer, she is a member of the Budapest Bar Association, although her activities are currently suspended. She is also a member of the Hungarian Comparative Law Association. She conducts research and professional activities in several foreign languages: English, Polish, and French. Her native language is Hungarian.
Book chapters
Child-Protection Systems – Summary
Child-Protection Systems – Hungarian Perspective
Introduction – Broad Concept of Child Protection
The Role of Religious Communities in the Adoption, Implementation, and Monitoring of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, With a Special Regard to the Role of the Holy See
Children in Religious Contexts: Introduction
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The Role of National Human Rights Institutions, the Unicef, and Non-governmental Organisations in the Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
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