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180 | Contributors Tamas Dezs6 Ziegler is Deputy Director and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political and International Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at Pázmány Péter Catholic University and at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest, and at Széchenyi István University in Győr, Hungary, as well as at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. He was a Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Bergen in Norway; Warwick University in Coventry, the UK; the Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xian, China; Free University Berlin in Germany; the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne; Fordham University School of Law in New York; the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany; and Cornell University in Ithaca, the US. His main areas of research include European studies and EU law, including the interdisciplinary analysis of public policy and political aspects of legislation, as well as international business law and private international law.