We are proud to share that Dr. Johanna Fröhlich, a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Politics and Government of the Eötvös József Research Center, has been nominated for the Kopp-Skrabski Award in the Scientific category.
The Kopp-Skrabski Award is presented annually by the Three Princes, Three Princesses Movement (Három Királyfi, Három Királylány Mozgalom), a Hungarian family-advocacy organization, to individuals and couples whose work strengthens families, marriages, and community life. The award carries the legacy of Mária Kopp, a leading Hungarian medical sociologist known for her research on family wellbeing and public health. Within the Scientific category — this year supported by Richter Gedeon Nyrt. — the jury selects a shortlist of researchers whose scholarship makes a distinguished contribution to the understanding of family life, human development, and social wellbeing.
As part of this year's edition, the Scientific category also includes a public vote: anyone may cast a ballot for the candidate they consider most deserving among the jury-selected nominees, open until 5 September at the Kopp-Skrabski Award voting page. The winners will be honored at an award ceremony this autumn.
Dr. Fröhlich's nomination recognizes her research project "The Philosophy of Motherhood," which breaks new ground by establishing motherhood as a distinct subject of legal and political philosophy — highlighting its complexity and its historical undervaluation in scholarly discourse. Her work protects the intimate and vulnerable space of the mother-child relationship while arguing that motherhood is not merely a private matter, but a fundamental question when addressing the general conditions of fairness and justice in a polity. Her contribution significantly enriches public policy by presenting the social value of motherhood, and the legal frameworks needed to support it, in a new light.
Johanna Fröhlich is a mother of three, an associate professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and since 2004 she serves as the Executive President of the Hungarian Association of Constitutional Lawyers. In recent years, she has also led academic research projects on Analytical Thomism and about the reasoning practices of Latin American and Caribbean constitutional courts while she held teaching positions at the Law Schools of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of San Francisco de Quito.
We warmly congratulate Dr. Fröhlich on her nomination.
Source: LUPS