Biography
Dr. Gáspár-Szilágyi is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Managing Editor of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review (Kluwer). His current project focuses on how investors are adapting to investment screening mechanisms and other protectionist measures.
Prior to his Fellowship, he was a Researcher in International Investment Law at the University of Oslo (Norway) on a Norwegian Research Council funded project, an Assistant Professor in EU and International Trade Law at the University of Birmingham (UK, 2021-2024), a Lecturer in EU and International Economic Law at Keele University (UK, 2019-2021), a Postdoctoral Fellow in Investment Law at the PluriCourts Centre of Excellence in Norway (2016-2016), a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2015-2016), and a Lecturer at the Hague University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands, 2015). He has also conducted research visits at Vienna University (Austria, 2017), the Asser Institute (the Netherlands, 2014), and was a Hugo Grotius Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA, 2013-2014).
He defended his PhD in 2015 at Aarhus University in Denmark. He also holds a two-year LLM in International Law from Maastricht University (2011, the Netherlands, top 3% of students) and an LLB from Babeș-Bolyai University (2009, Romania, valedictorian). During his studies he was an exchange student at Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Bucerius Law School (Germany), and Utrecht University (the Netherlands).
He regularly teaches, presents, and publishes on topics concerning International Investment Law, EU Investment Law, Investment Screening, Preferential Trade, the EU’s Common Commercial Policy, Regional Economic Integration, and the interaction between domestic and international law. He speaks English, Hungarian, Romanian, and Italian.