Seven internationally renowned honorary doctors of the University of Pécs have been inaugurated at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting on 4 November at the dr. Halasy-Nagy Lecture Hall. They are prominent, respected professors, who have been actively working in close cooperation with the University of Pécs. Through their professional achievements on their respective fields as well as in the joint research projects with the faculties of the University they have greatly benefited the University of Pécs as well as Hungarian science. They all have given their inaugural adresses at the repective promoting faculties, which they have summarized at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting.
Monika Schlachter is a German professor of law, she has been a member of the European Council’s body, the “European Committee of Social Rights” since 2007, currently she is its vice president. She is the director of the “Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Union” (IAAEU), which is the most important labour law scientific collection in Europe for the time being. In the 1992/1993 academic year she worked at the Department of Labour Law of the University of Freiburg. From 1993 to 2006 she was a professor of the reorganized University of Jena, the Faculty of Law, Department of Civil Law, Labour Law, International Private Law and Comparative Jurisprudence. In 2006, she was invited to the Department of Labour Law and Civil Law of the University of Regensburg, where she worked until 2008. While she acted as a professor of law, she held many positions at the certain faculties of law (dean, deputy dean, senator, a member of the research committee, dean for research). At the University of Jena, she was the leader of the LL.M. programme of the University of Sydney. She is one of the elaborators and participants of the European LL.M. programme of the University of Sevilla. Prof. Monika Schlachter was appointed to the Department of International and European Labour Law and Civil Law of the University of Trier in 2008. In the last decade, she provided opportunity for continuous and regular research to the current and former employees of the Department of Labour Law and Social Insurance of the University of Pécs, she established fruitful scientific co-operation between the Faculty’s Department of Labour Law and Social Insurance and the employees of the Research Group of Comparative and European Employment Policy and Labour Law of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – University of Pécs.
