Zoltán I. Búzás is associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs whose research centers on the politics of international law and norms, race, and human rights. He has been a Kellogg faculty fellow since 2024.
Búzás's book Evading International Norms: Race and Rights in the Shadow of Legality (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) centers on human rights behaviors that are “awful but lawful.” It examines how states violate human rights norms in the shadow of technical legality – a process Búzás calls norm evasion. Based on a wealth of evidence, including more than 160 interviews, the book shows that the expulsion of Roma immigrants from France and the school segregation of Roma children in the Czech Republic violated the norm of racial equality in a technically legal fashion.
Búzás's research also has been published in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Security Studies.
Prior to joining Notre Dame, Búzás was an assistant professor of politics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, an Open Society Fellow, and a visiting scholar at McGill University’s Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. He holds a PhD in political science from The Ohio State University.