Dr. Anikó Szalai is an associate professor of Public International Law and the Director of the International and Regional Studies Institute at the Faculty of Law, University of Szeged, Hungary. She is also the Director of the Academy of European Public Law in Athens, Greece. Anikó Szalai defended her PhD dissertation titled ’The Effect of Armed Conflicts on Treaties’ in 2012, and acquired habilitation in 2019, based on her research relating to the protection of the Roma minority under international and European law. Her main research areas are the law of treaties, human rights, and international organizations. Her recent research focuses on relationship between digitalisation, human rights and international law, as she is the head of a research group focusing on this issue at the University of Szeged. She is a regular lecturer at the International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Master of the Europa-Universitaet Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder, Germany, and has been a visiting lecturer at several universities abroad (e.g. Prague, Ljubljana, Angers, Belgrade, Rome, Lisbon). She is member of numerous professional organizations, such as the Board of Directors of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO), the Presidency of the United Nations Association Hungary, the Presidency of the International Public Sub-committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the International Law Association (ILA).