Szabolcs Nagypál is a lawyer, theologian, and humanities scholar with doctoral degrees (PhD) in both Law and Political Science, as well as in Theology. He also holds three master’s degrees in the field of Humanities (Literature). From 2000 to 2008, he served as a senior research fellow at the Békés Gellért Ecumenical Institute in Pannonhalma. Since 1993, he has been a university lecturer at the Department of Legal and Social Theory at the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

Between 2020 and 2024, he led the School of Law at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), and since 2020, he has headed MCC’s Center for Law and Society.

In addition to his academic work, Nagypál is the editor of the film program Tekercs és Tekintet, which features over 300 film analyses, and he serves as chief editor of the Békés Gellért Ecumenical Books series published by L’Harmattan. He has also held editorial leadership roles with three English-language academic journals. From 2007 to 2010, he was Vice President of the International Ecumenical Fellowship.

He is the author of several hundred scholarly publications across three academic disciplines. His two major monographs are Dialogue Mirror: Methodology of Interreligious Encounters (L’Harmattan, 2013) and Religious Freedom and Human Rights: Legal-Philosophical and Theological Issues before the Courts (Ludovika, 2024).