Sara Hungler

Sára Hungler, PhD, is an Associate Professor at ELTE Faculty of Law with 15 years of research and teaching experience in empirical studies on individual and collective labor rights and human rights at work. She regularly handles immigration issues in her legal practice, providing counseling to clients. She earned her PhD from ELTE in 2015 and habilitation from Szent István University in 2023. Since 2010, she has contributed to European research projects, including H2020 initiatives and European Commission employment studies, serving as principal investigator on a pilot project for social innovation in occupational safety and health. Her scholarship features over 70 publications. Key works include her 2024 habilitation monograph, Social Justice, Welfare and EU Law: Measuring Integration in the Visegrád Countries (Edward Elgar), which addresses unemployment policies. Recently she has been focusing on various form of employment precarity  ("Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic" - with Gárdos Judit and Illéssy Miklós, Social & Legal Studies 33:6, 2024), discrimination ("Destined to Stay – A Case Study of Roma Refugees from Ukraine" (University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 100:477, 2023) and social rights ("Social Rights in Hungary" - with Pozsár-Szentmiklósy Zoltán, in Nussberger & Landau (eds.), The Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Intersentia, 2023
Supervisors: Csilla Kollonay-Lehocky (PhD supervisor)