From left are Stephen Paskey, Lyle Hajdu, Andras Sajo, and Tom Schmidt, president of the Robert H. Jackson Center board.

The Robert H. Jackson Center hosted the Hon. Andras Sajo, former European Court of Human Rights judge and Hungarian legal academic, recently for a tour of the center.

Sajo was joined at the Jackson Center by Gregory Peterson, Jackson Center co-founder and board member, attorney Lyle Hajdu, a partner at Erickson, Webb, Scolton & Hajdu (Lyle’s father immigrated to the U.S. during the Hungarian uprising of 1956), and Stephen Paskey, lecturer in law, legal analysis, writing and research at the University at Buffalo School of Law.

Following the tour, Sajo and company traveled to the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, where he was interviewed by Peterson in a conversation entitled “Human Rights in a Closing Society.” A video recording of the interview is available on the Robert H. Jackson Center’s YouTube page.

Sajo was the founding dean of the Legal Studies department at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he also chaired the Comparative Constitutional Law L.LM program. From February 2008 to April 2017 he served as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights. After completing his term at the Court, Judge Sajo returned to the CEU, where he is a university professor. He is considered as one of the leading constitutional scholars of Central and Eastern Europe.