The University of Debrecen, being one of the few Hungarian universities of national excellence has the widest range of doctoral trainings: 24 doctoral schools in 5 disciplines (agriculture, art and humanities, medicine, social sciences and sciences). The Doctoral Council of Social Sciences contains 2 doctoral schools: the Doctoral School of Management and Business, and the Marton Géza Doctoral School of Legal Studies. You can read more about Géza Marton's work here.
The Marton Géza Doctoral School of Legal Studies was accredited by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB) with its decision No. 2006/4/VI/3. Our current accreditation is valid until September 30, 2026, in accordance with MAB decision No. 2025/2/X (dated March 21, 2025). The Doctoral school was launched in September 2006 with the doctoral program: Changes in State and Law in Central and Eastern Europe.
As a sign of our respect for the juridical traditions of Debrecen, on 1 September 2011 our doctoral school adopted the name of Géza Marton, legal scholar, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and former professor at the university.
We offer an accredited full-time English PhD program to our PhD students, and the topics offered by our PhD supervisors covers almost all fields of legal studies. At our homepage you can find more detailed information about our PhD program, the thesis topic proposals, but if you have any other questions, please feel free to contact. For more information about our Doctoral School please visit the website of the Hungarian Doctoral Council."