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Contributors andRew aRato is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory at the New School for Social Research, New York and Invited Professor in the College de France, Paris. He taught at École des hautes études, and Sciences Po, Paris, and the Central European University, Budapest, had a Fulbright teaching grant to Montevideo, and was Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, as well as invited professor at the Law School of the University of Toronto. Arato has served as a consultant for the Hungarian Parliament on constitutional issues (1995–1997), and as U.S. State Department Democracy Lecturer and Consultant on Constitutional issues in Nepal (2007) and Zimbabwe (2010). His most recent publications are Civil Society and Political Theory (1992), Civil Society, Constitution and Legitimacy (2000), and Constitution Making under Occupation: The Politics of Imposed Revolution in Iraq (2009). MiKlós BánKuti is Senior Research Specialist in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University. His research focuses on constitutional and legal reform in Hungary. He graduated with a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University and holds undergraduate degrees in finance and economics . He has also worked as an analyst with the International Energy Agency and subsequently as a finance associate with the Clinton Foundation. ChRistian BoulanGeR is Political Scientist and Legal Sociologist working at the Forum Transregional Studies in Berlin. Before joining the Forum, he helped founding the Law and Society Institute at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests include the transformation of the legal field in post-Communist societies, comparative constitutional and judicial studies, law and development , and the sociology of punishment from a comparative perspective. andRás BRaGyova is Judge at the Constitutional Court of Hungary and Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Miskolc. Since 1977 he has been researcher in the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. He was recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University, Department of Political Science. Professor Bragyova has published books and essays on constitutional law and theory, the philosophy of law and international law in Hungarian, English and other languages. 558 Contributors CatheRine dupRé is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. She started working on Hungarian constitutional law at the European University Institute, Florence in 1998. She has been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is currently developing a research project on the connections between the concept of human dignity and European constitutionalism, for which she was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2010–2011). She is the author of Importing the Law in Post-communist Transitions: The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity (2003). Ronald dwoRKin is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. He is the 2007 recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize. He has been Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and Fellow of University College since 1969. He clerked for Judge Learned Hand, was associated with a law firm in New York and was a professor of law at Yale University Law School from 1962–1969. Professor Dworkin’s books include Taking Rights Seriously (1977), A Matter of Principle (1985), Law’s Empire (1986), A Bill of Rights for Britain (1990), Life’s Dominion (1993), Freedom’s Law (1996), Justice in Robes (2006), and, most recently Justice for Hedgehogs (2011). His forthcoming book, Religion Without God, is based on his 2011 Einstein Lectures. GáBoR halMai is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Political and International Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Since 2003 he has been the national director of the European Masters Program in Human Rights and Democratization in Venice. Between 2007–2010 he was member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Management Board based in Vienna. Professor Halmai’s primary research interests are comparative constitutional law and human rights. He has published several books, articles, and edited volumes on these topics. His forthcoming book is on constitutional law, human rights, and globalization. János Kis is Professor of Political Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest, and Distinguished Global Professor at the New York University, Department of Philosophy. He was a leading member of the democratic opposition to the communist regime and the first chairman of the Alliance of Free Democrats, Hungary’s liberal party. He took an active part in the process of...

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