Krisztina Petra Gula is a Ph.D. candidate in criminal justice at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary and works as a legal and financial expert. She arrived at CSLS as a visiting researcher with Fulbright and Rosztoczy scholarships. Her experience stems from the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the edition of Lawyr.it, an international project and journal of law and political science students in Central and Eastern Europe. She graduated from ELTE Law and holds a postgraduate degree in economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research focuses on the intersections of criminal justice and mental health, especially the ways how mentally ill offenders get treated in various states in a comparative perspective. Her work so far has been awarded by the Ministry of Justice, the New National Excellence Program, the National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, and the National Academic Essay Competition. She is currently examining the functioning of mental health courts in the US, as well as the biases that potentially affect the participants of the legal proceedings targeting mentally ill individuals.
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CSLS Visiting Student Researcher
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