Dr. Orsolya Johanna Sziebig PhD LLM

This is Orsolya Johanna Sziebig from Hungary. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Szeged Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Department of International and European Law. She teaches Public International Law, the law of the European Union, the law of International Organisations, International and European Environmental law to law and international relations students. She is the founder and head of the International and European Environmental Law Research Group. After graduating “summa cum laude” at the University of Szeged in 2014, she started PhD studies. She defended her dissertation “summa cum laude” entitled “The International Legal Frameworks of Wildlife Crime” in 2019. She also holds an LLM in environmental law. In April 2024, she gave lectures to law students at the Law Faculty of the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca on the history of international environmental law, the nature of regulation and the new challenges of environmental law. In May, as a guest of the Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary of the University Business Academy in Novi Sad, she presented her thoughts on new trends in environmental law. She has participated in several conferences in Hungary and abroad (such as in Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Paris (online), Timisoara (online) and Legrena). Her current research interests include ecocide, environmental crime, green democracy, and the third generation of human rights, but her original research field, wildlife crime, remained at the forefront of her research.