Attila Menyhárd is a university professor at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, of counsel lawyer at the Oppenheim Law Office in Budapest, and research professor at the Information Society Research Institute of the National University of Public Service (Ludovika). He is the head of the MCC Center for Modern Legal Studies. He earned his PhD in 2003 and habilitated in 2007. From 2006 to 2022, he served as the head of the Department of Civil Law at ELTE Faculty of Law. Between 2016 and 2019, he also held the position of dean of the faculty. He is an arbitrator at the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Arbitration Court and has experience in both domestic and international arbitration. He participates in legislative projects, including the preparation of the Civil Code. He was the chair of the Supreme Court’s advisory board on the new Civil Code during its operation. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT. He is a member of the European Tort and Insurance Law Institute (Vienna), the European Law Institute, the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Law Society, and the International Bar Association.

His main research areas cover a wide range of civil law topics, including the legal impacts of artificial intelligence and digitalization, private enforcement of environmental protection, law and economics, law and fine arts, law and literature, property law, contract law, tort law, inheritance law, and commercial law. He is the author of more than 200 publications in Hungarian, English, and German. He is the recipient of several honors, including the Hungarian Order of Merit – Officer’s Cross and the Deák Ferenc Award.