Gábor Polyák

Media law expert, Eötvös Loránd University

Dr Gábor Polyák
Dr Gábor Polyák

Dr Gábor Polyák works as a professor for media law and media policy and as the head of the Media and Communication Department of the Eötvös Loránd University. He also works for the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences as a senior research fellow. Further, he is a researcher of Mertek Media Monitor, a Hungarian NGO dealing with media policy issues.

Before, ha was the head of the Department for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Pécs between 2016 and 2020.

He was research fellow at the University of Münster, Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law from 2014 to 2016, and an associate professor at the University of Pécs, Institute for Information and Communication Law from 2001 to 2014.

His academic background includes law and media studies at the University of Pécs, a Master of Laws degree in ICT law at the University of Vienna, a PhD degree and habilitation at the University of Pécs. He teaches and does research in the fields of media law, IT law, media policy, media ethics and media economics.