Judit Bayer

Judit Bayer (1974) is a full time associate professor and head of the Legal Department of King Sigismund College in Budapest. She taught and researched at the University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2006, and at Tama University, Tokyo in 2009. Sh had taught legal subjects at the International Business School's Oxford Brookes Ba (Hons) programme in Budapest (1998-2002). She acquired her LLM at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) of Budapest in 1992 and her PhD from freedom of expression in the online environment, at the Department for Constitutional Law of ELTE in 2005. She pursued constitutional free speech studies at Central European University in 2000. She carried out a research project at Open Society University in 2001-2002 on information policy issues. She led a project at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on public service television's regulation from a perspective of European competition law. She participated in several other research projects, specializing primarily in media regulation from a freedom of expression perspective, and in freedom and regulation of new media. Judit Bayer is frequently asked to speak at conferences and expert workshops or deliver legal or policy analyses. She is author and co-author of several books and author of numerous articles, both in English and in Hungarian. She is the editor of the quarterly Médiakutató, a high quality media research journal. She is member of the executive board of the Society for Communication Research (MKTT) in Hungary.