Judit Zeller currently works as a senior legal expert at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (since 2016) and as an associate professor at the Faculty of Law University of Pécs (since 2022), where she teaches human rights law and psychology. Judit graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pécs with an MA in law as well as in psychology and holds a PhD in law. She wrote her thesis on reproductive rights and embryo research. Her current academic interest focuses on challenges of human rights in the 21st century, especially in the field of social rights.
She has work experience as a legal officer from the Hungarian ombudsman’s office, where she dealt with children’s rights cases and with access to healthcare and patients’ rights. Later she was the member of the expert team conducting visits to closed institutions.
At the HCLU she works in the Privacy Project. She coordinates strategic litigation and advocacy of cases concerning privacy in general and in the health care system (patients’ rights) and in the educational system (children’s rights and parental rights) in particular. Since 2022 she focuses on strategic litigation in the Hungarian education system: children’s right to education, state obligations concerning the right to education and teacher’s right to strike.
