Professor profile
Introduction
Dr. Lilla Garayová is the deputy dean responsible for international relations at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University. She is an Associate Professor of international law at the Pan-European University and the Comenius University in Bratislava, practices law and works as a children’s rights activist.
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The focus of her professional and publication practice is international family law and the protection of human rights. She is fluent in nine foreign languages and regularly publishes and lectures in these languages. Garayová is a member of the Slovak International Law Society and the International Family Law Society. She is the author of dozens of professional and academic works in the field of children’s rights, international law and family law.
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, Pan-European University, Slovakia
- Research group: The right to parental custody, Protecting families, Demographic Challenges

Dr. Lilla Garayová
More about work
She was a member of the research group `Protection of family in the legal system´ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2021. She was a member of the research group ‘Content of the right to parental responsibility’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2022. She was a member of the research group ‘Demographic Challenges – legal responses’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2023.
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She is a member of the research group ‘Assisted Reproductive Technologies’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2024.
She is PhD supervisor in the „Central European Comparative Law” PhD programme at the Ferenc Deák Doctoral School of Law of the University of Miskolc.
She is member of the editorial board of the following books series of the CEA Publishing: (a) Young Researcher’s Monographs. She is author in the following books of the CEA Publishing: (a) Family Protection From a Legal Perspective (2021), (b) Content of the Right to Parental Responsibility. Experiences – Analyses – Postulates (2022), (c) Children’s Rights in Regional Human Rights Systems (2024), (d) International Children’s Rights (2024), (e) The rights of the child in private law – Central European Comparative perspective (2024), (f) The rights of the child in public law – Central European Comparative perspective (2024), (g) The ECHR at 70: The Central European Narrative (2024), (h) Demographic Challenges in Central Europe: Legal and Family Policy Response (2024). She is the author of scientific articles published in the following scientific journal(s) of the CEA Publishing: (a) Law, identity and Values, (b) Central European Journal of Comparative Law.

Conference presentations
L. Garayová – The Best Interest of the Intended Child – Children’s Rights in Assisted Reproductio…
L. Garayova – Demograpich Challenges and Their Legal Solutions in Slovakia
L. Garayová – Parental Authority and the Best Interest of the Child
L. Garayová: Mater semper certa est? – Motherhood and the law in Slovakia
L. Garayová: Slovakia – The Conservative Approach to Family Law
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