http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/65a85708e6691a2a https://verfassungsblog.de/hungary-academic-freedom/ The Hungarian Roadmap - Eight Lessons on Academic Freedom From a Hungarian Perspective Pap, András L. eng 2025-10-14 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Academic Freedom Authoritarian Populism CEU Hungary Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Hungarian play script of infringements on academic freedom under the Orbán-regime provides useful junctures on how academic freedom can be both captured and conceptualised. I speak from first-hand experience. As I have chronicled before, I was fired from one university for political reasons; laid off from another after it was forced into exile; and have been working at an institution that has been renamed five times, reorganised, and put under continuous existential pressure since 2010. Five years after the Lex CEU case, it is safe to say that academic freedom is systematically being violated in Hungary. Its roadmap has at least eight lessons to offer.