Lilla Nóra Kiss

Lilla Nóra Kiss is a Post-Graduate Visiting Research Fellow and an adjunct faculty at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University. During her post-doctoral research, she undertakes a comparative analysis of how the US and the EU approach regulating social media. In addition, as an adjunct faculty member at Scalia Law School, she teaches Antitrust Law. 

Lilla completed her JD in 2015 at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. During her doctoral studies, she undertook the General and Juridical Mediator course and immersed herself in several international law programs (the Regional Academy on the United Nations (RAUN); the Academy of European Law (AEL) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy). 

Lilla completed her doctorate in 2018 and defended her thesis on the legal issues of Brexit in 2019. In 2020, she completed her third degree in European and International Business Law LLM at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. In addition to her academic studies, Lilla conducted lectures and seminars on European Union law and European and International Business Law in both English and Hungarian. Her professional accomplishments led to her nomination for the Wolters Kluwer Law Award in the category of Young Legal Talent of the year (2021). 

She also served as a senior counselor specializing in EU law at the Hungarian Ministry of Justice, State Secretariat for European Union Affairs. As such, she has provided legal advice on institutional matters between the EU and the Member States, on the Future of Europe Conference, and on some special topics, including social media, which inspired her to apply to the Hungary Foundation’s Liberty Bridge Program. 

Lilla has over a hundred scientific works, including academic and informative publications and presentations. Lilla is a founding editor of the Constitutional Discourse blog, an advisor to the Regional Dialogue for Security and Science blog, a co-editor-in-chief of the Külügyi Műhely Gyorselemzés sorozat (Foreign Affairs Rapid Analysis Series). Lilla is a founding member of the Freedom and Identity in Central Europe (FICE).