Soma Hegedős

Soma Hegedős

SOMA HEGEDŐS (Dunaújváros, 1985) columnist and lawyer specialised in publiclaw. He is currently a researcher of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based think tank, and of the University of Public Service Ludovika, Budapest. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest). As part of his post-graduate studies he became the Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Cologne in state law with relation to European law and international law. He is writing his PhD dissertation on the political theology of Islam at the Faculty of Law, ELTE.

LEGAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DILEMMAS REGARDING THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION

Ever since the Polish Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, announced at a press conference towards the end of July 2020 that Poland wished to withdraw from the agreement commonly known as the Istanbul Convention, debates over the legitimacy of the document signed in the Turkish metropolis in 2011 have again