Lénárd Darázs#
| Membership Number: | 7466 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.elte.hu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0760-0696 |
| Linkedin: | https://linkedin.com/in/darázs-lénárd/56b6b8113/ |
| Publication Link: | https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10000542 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2025 Rector, Eötvös Loránd University, ELTE, Budapest
- 2017 - 2025Vice-Rector General (and, concurrently, Acting Vice-Rector Sciences for 6 months)
- Since 1994 Full time professor (Private Law, Competition Law, Data Economy)
- Since 2023 Head of Jean Monnet Chair on Law of European Data Economy
- Member as Judge of Court of Arbitration of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the “Money and Capital Market” and the “Commercial Affairs” and the “Energy” list
- Since 2020 Scientific head and chair of Project Management Body of Social Innovation National Laboratory
- Since 2019 Vice-president of Hungarian Association for Innovation
- Since 2021 President of German-Hungarian Lawyers Association
- Since 2018 Head of “Regulatory and Ethics” Division of the Artificial Intelligence Coalition
- 2007 - 2010 Humboldt-scholarship (Humboldt-Foundation, Max-Planck-Institute of international Private Law (Hamburg)
Fields of Scholarship
- Private law for consumer protection
- Different areas of social innovation
- Law of obligations
- Law of distribution (trade), franchise
- Law of groups of companies and insolvency law
- International harmonisation of private law
- Regulatory and ethical issues in Artificial Intelligence
- Competition law
- Law of capital markets and investments
- Regulation of data assets
Honours and Awards
- Since 2021 Social Innovation National Laboratory (TINLAB), scientific head
- Since 2021 Social Innovation National Laboratory (TINLAB) Project Management Body (PIT), chair
- 2014 - 2016 “Theoretical underpinnings of consumer protection in private law and analysis of its legal institutions”, OTKA research project, ELTE
- Since 2013 External member of the University Doctor and Habilitation Committee of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
- 2010 - 2012 MTA Bólyai János Research Scholarship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 1997 - 2003, Hungarian Lawyers Association, Section for Competition Law and Consumer Protection Law, chair
- 1997 - 2017 Hungarian Franchise Association, Legal and Ethics Committee, chair
- 1995 - 2004 Hungarian Lawyers Association, Section for Civil Law, chair
- 1994 - 1996 Magyary Zoltán Scholarship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- 1992 - 1994 University Heidelberg, Graduiertenkolleg für Unternehmensrecht Participation in the talent development program of the German Research Foundation and the German Federal Government for two years
- 1991 - 1992 University Heidelberg, DAAD-Scholarship, Legum Magister (LL.M.). Research topic: „Das Missbrauchsverbot im deutschen, europäischen und ungarischen Kartellrecht“



