Department of Legal Philosophy

Head of Department:
Csaba VARGA DSc

E-mail:

jogbolcs@jak.ppke.hu

Telefon:

(36 1) 429 7227

Fax:

(36 1) 429 7226

   

Address:

H-1088 Budapest, Szentkirályi u. 28-30.

   

Second Central and Eastern European Forum for Young Legal, Social and Political Theorists, PPCU Budapest, 21-22 May 2010


   

Brief introduction of the Department

The Department wishes to be the workshop of catholic intellectual revival within its own field of profession. Keeping in mind the future perspectives it devotes parts of its work to exploring the periods of philosophy of law and the state less elaborated in Hungary (Antiquity and the Middle Ages), to the critical study of the current trends of natural law as well as the cultivation of the anthropology of law. The Department is a workshop of the education of comparative law in the classical sense on the one hand, and the elaboration of the evolving disciplines of comparative legal cultures and the comparative judicial mind on the other. Transition to the rule of law within the context of globalisation has a unique focus on the departmental output.

   

Lecturers of the Department

 

Zoltán PÉTERI CSc professor emeritus

 

Csaba VARGA DSc professor

 

János FRIVALDSZKY PhD associate professor

 

István H. SZILÁGYI PhD associate professor

 

Péter CSERNE PhD senior lecturer

 

Balázs FEKETE senior lecturer

 

Máté PAKSY senior lecturer

 

Szilárd TATTAY senior lecturer

 

Miklós KÖNCZÖL assistant lecturer

   

Research topics of Departments

Methodology of law and legal thinking; law, language, logic, and rhetoric; comparative legal cultures and comparative judicial mind; law and economics; law and literature; constitutionalisation under post modern conditions; the legal treatment of exceptional situations.