Ágnes LUX
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Agnes Lux holds a politicial scientist degree (ELTE University, 2005) and a law degree (ELTE University, 2010). She earned her Phd in 2018 at ELTE University, her thesis concentrated on children's rights. She is a research fellow at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies. She won the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for 2023-2025 with the research topic ombudsman institutions, children’s rights and the right to a healthy environment. She worked for the Hungarian Ombudsman and was the director of child rights advocacy at UNICEF Hungary. She has worked for various international organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration, UNICEF, Terres des Hommes Lausanne.
Recent selected publications:
- Agnes Lux: Successful unsuccessful children’s rights climate cases? Lessons learned from the Sacchi and Agostinho cases or the power of a non-judicial body Católica Law Review 9 : 1 pp. 57-81. , 25 p. (2025)
- Agnes Lux: Recent Trends in the Argumentation of the European Court of Human Rights on Children’s Rights . Public Governance Administration and Finances Law Review 10 : 1 pp. 103-120. , 18 p. (2025)
- Agnes Lux: Vulnerability and Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment, with a Special Focus on the Hungarian Ombudsman’s Practice ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE LEGAL STUDIES 13 : 2 pp. 111-129. , 19 p. (2024)
- Gábor - Kecskés - Agnes Lux: There is no plan(et) B - environmental “crossroads' of children's rights”. HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 64 : 1 pp. 4-31. , 28 p. (2023)
- Agnes Lux: How green are children’s rights institutions in the Visegrád countries INTERSECTIONS: EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS 9 : 2 pp. 7-28. , 22 p. (2023)
- Bass, Loretta E. (ed) ; Gran, Brian (ed.) ; Lux, Agnes (ed.): The Roles of Independent Children's Rights Institutions in Advancing Human Rights of Children. Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. (2022) ISBN: 9781801176088 ISBN: 9781801176095