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András Sajó is a former judge and Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights, where he served from 2008 to 2017.

He is the founder of the law faculty at Central European University in Budapest, where he continues to teach as a professor of law. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and holds honorary doctorates from the European University Institute in Florence and Ilia State University in Tbilisi.

He founded the League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, which played a key role in abolishing capital punishment after the fall of communism. He has also participated as an expert in drafting constitutions in four countries undergoing democratic transition.