Gábor is a Hungarian legal scholar specializing in comparative and European constitutional law, human rights, and democratic erosion in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an emeritus professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where he chaired Comparative Constitutional Law from 2016 to 2022. He also teaches global public law as a visiting professor at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and acts as a scientific director for judicial cooperation projects at the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
He completed his legal education at ELTE and served as chief advisor to László Sólyom, the first President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court. From 1998 to 2015, he directed the Hungarian Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre and founded the human rights journal Fundamentum. He has held visiting research fellowships at Princeton University and edits the Central European University (CEU) Press book series Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe.
His scholarship analyzes the dismantling of the rule of law, focusing on electoral autocracies and the mechanics of illiberal constitutionalism in Hungary. His recent co-edited volumes include Human Dignity and Democracy (2022) and Economic Constitutionalism in a Turbulent World (2023), contributing critical frameworks to contemporary debates on democratic decline and constitutional recovery.