András Sajó

András Sajó (born 25 March 1949) is a Hungarian legal academic and former European Court of Human Rights judge.

András Sajó
Judge of the
European Court of Human Rights
in respect of Hungary
Assumed office
1 February 2008
Preceded byAndrás Baka
Personal details
Born (1949-03-25) 25 March 1949
Budapest, Hungary
ResidenceBudapest

Sajó was born in Budapest. He was the founding Dean of the Legal Studies department at the Central European University in Budapest. Later he chaired the Comparative Constitutional Law LL.M. program.

Between 2001 and 2007, he served on the board of directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative of New York.[1]

Between February, 2008 and April, 2017 he served as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Hungary.[2] He was the President of the First Section of the Court as well as the President of the Fourth Section. As a judge, he was cited in an independent NGO report[3] which shows that he seated in three cases where the Open Society Justice Initiative was involved as a third party (Centro Europa 7 S.r.l. and Di Stefano v. Italy, Pauliukienė and Pauliukas v. Lithuania and Ahmet Yldirim v. Turkey).

After completing the term at the Court, Sajó returned to the CEU, where he currently is a University Professor. On 6 May 2020, Facebook appointed him to its content oversight board.[4]

References
  1. "European Court of Human Rights elects two new Section Presidents" (PDF). European Court of Human Rights. 21 September 2015.
  2. "Composition of the ECHR - Judges, Sections, Grand Chamber".
  3. "NGOS AND THE JUDGES OF THE ECHR, 2009 - 2019, ECLJ". Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  4. "Facebook names first members of oversight board that can overrule Zuckerberg". Reuters. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
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