Organisation and thesis topic proposals

Core members, supervisors

Our Doctoral School has 14 core members and 29 supervisors (including core members) from all fields of law, including civil law, law of civil procedure, criminal law, law of criminal procedure, European Union law, public international law (including international protection of human rights), legal history, jurisprudence and constitutional law, labour and social law, legal history, public administration law.

Our core members:

Thesis topic proposals --Our current thesis topic proposals in foreign languages

  • Our current thesis topic proposals in foreign languages:

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, FINANCIAL LAW (languages: English)

  • Prof. dr. Zsuzsanna Árva (Dept. of Public Administration Law): The administrative aspects of education
  • Prof. dr. István Balázs (Dept. of Public Administration Law): Les changements de la théorie generale du service public
  • dr. Attila Barta (Dept. of Public Administration Law): Major trends in the transformation of territorial state administration in the European public administration in the 21st century
  • dr. Péter Bordás (Dept of Financial Law and Public Management): New regulatory challenges of financial law in the 21st century; Regulation of the digital companies in the European Union's internal market 
  • dr. habil. Ákos Cserny (University of Physical Education): European Electoral Institutions
  • dr. Gabriella Klára Csűrös (Dept. of Financial Law and Public Management): European Public Finance
  • Prof. dr. Tamás Horváth M. (Dept of Financial Law and Public Management): Public administration and management
  • dr. Dóra Lovas: The changing role of government in the „age of crises”
  • dr. Péter Sólyom (Dept. of Constitutional Law): The Autonomy of Parliament and the Protection of Human Rights, Value pluralism and equality Challenges of democratic political integration in contemporary constitutional law
  • dr. Bernadett Répásiné Veszprémi: The scientific foundation and trends of e-administration
  • dr. habil. Gábor Attila Tóth (Dept. of Constitutional Law): Comparative constitutionalism

CIVIL LAW (INCLUDING COMMERCIAL LAW) AND CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW (languages: English)

  • dr. habil. Tamás Fézer (Dept. of Civil Law): New tendencies in the development of a common European private law
  • dr. habil. Tamás Fézer (Dept. of Civil Law): Institutions of international business law in the 21st century
  • dr. Zsolt Hajnal Dept. of Civil Law): European and Hungarian consumer protection law
  • dr. Zsolt Hajnal Dept. of Civil Law): Cross border private legal relations
  • dr. Tibor Kiss (Dept. of Civil Law): Civil enforcement options for the protection of intellectual properties
  •  dr. Tibor Kiss (Dept. of Civil Law): Current issues in the civil protection of personality
  • dr. Judit Molnár (Dept. of Law of Civil Procedure): Zivilprozess und ausserprozessliche Verfahren in Europa
  • dr. Anna Nyilas (Dept. of Law of Civil Procedure): Institutions of civil procedure in a comparative perspective
  • Prof. dr. László Pribula (Dept. of Law of Civil Procedure): Alternative dispute resolution: ways to avoid lawsuits in the 21st century
  • dr. Rita Simon (Faculty of Law Palacký University Olomouc): Sustainable consumption – sustainable consumer protection; Current challenges of consumer redress mechanisms - Fogyasztói jogérvényesítés aktuális kihívásai
  • dr. habil. Veronika Szikora (Dept. of Civil Law): System und Reform des Gesellschaftsrechts in Europa
  • dr. habil. Veronika Szikora (Dept. of Civil Law): Entwicklungstendenzen des Gesellschaftsrechts in den 19-21. Jahrhunderten
  • dr. Éva Török, (Dept. of Civil Law): Developments in the general rules on contracts
  • dr. Nelli Varga (Dept. of Civil Law): Basic questions and changes in contract law
  • dr. Nelli Varga (Dept. of Civil Law): Development trends of family law
  • prof. dr. Emőd Veress (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania): Fundamental issues of the private law in post-socialist transition
  • prof. dr. Emőd Veress (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania): Tools of creditor and debtor protection in private law

CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW (language: English)

  • Prof. dr. Balázs Elek (Dept. of Law of Criminal Procedure): Formation of judicial belief, and the basic principles of the criminal procedure
  • dr. Sándor Madai (Dept. of Criminal Law and Criminology): Challenges of substantive criminal law in the 21st century
  • dr. Ágnes Pápai-Tarr (Dept. of Criminal Law and Criminology): Possible directions of the changes in certain criminal substantial legal institutions in the 21st century
  • dr. Krisztián Szabó (Dept. of Law of Criminal Procedure): Possible directions of changes of some criminal procedural legal institutions in the light of the codification of criminal procedural law
  • dr. Andrea Noémi Tóth (Dept. of Law of Criminal Procedure)

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, LABOUR LAW (languages: English)

  • Prof. dr. László  Fodor (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): Klimaschutzrecht der EG; Ungarisch-Deutsche Rechtsvergleichung
  • dr. György Nádas (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): Fundamental conceptual questions of labour law; harmonisation of law regarding the basic legal institutions of labour law
  • dr. Henriett Nádasné dr. Rab (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): The effects of the relationship between labour law and social law on the labour market mechanisms
  • dr. Péter Sipka (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): The challenges of the regulation of work in the light of the changing labour market
  • dr. Márton Leó Zaccaria (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): Fundamental values and changes in the legal protection of the employees among the current employment tendencies
  • dr. Márton Leó Zaccaria (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): The employment-related questions of equal treatment
  • dr. Márton Leó Zaccaria (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): The importance and limitation of human rights in labour law
  • dr. Orsolya Bányai (Dept. of Environmental Law and Labour Law): The realization of sustainable development goals in the field of energy law

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN LAW (language: English)

  • dr. Ildikó Bartha (Dept. of European and Public International Law): External relations of the European Union
  • dr. Katalin Siska (Dept. of European and Public International Law): Human Rights and International Migration, The History of the Turkish Constitution - The Birth of Modern Turkey
  • dr. Márton Varju (Dept. ot European and Public International Law): The national interest in EU law
  • dr. Márton Varju (Dept. of European and Public International Law): Human rights as legal and policy instruments in the European Union
  • Prof. dr. Ernő Várnay: The infringement procedures under Articles 258-260 TFEU
  • Prof. dr. Ernő Várnay: Preliminary ruling procedure under Article 267 TFEU
  • Prof. dr. Ernő Várnay: Institutional-legal aspects of the European Monetary Union

LEGAL THEORY AND LEGAL HISTORY (languages: English)

  • dr. habil. Judit Balogh (Dept. of Legal History): Rezeption und Kodifikation als Gestaltungsmittel des Staatswesens. Funktionswandel der Rechtsinstituten ab dem 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert
  • Prof. dr. Mátyás Bencze (Dept. of Legal Theory and Legal Sociology): Theoretical background to adjudication
  • dr. Krisztina Ficsor (Dept. of Legal Theory and Legal Sociology): Theoretical Problems of Law and Judicial Reasoning in the 21st Century;
  • dr. Krisztina Ficsor (Dept. of Legal Theory and Legal Sociology): Theoretical Foundations of the Rule of Law in Criminal Law
  • Prof. dr. Mihály Fónai (Dept. of Public Policy and Applied Sociology): Recrutation and characteristics of legal professions
  • dr. Péter Kakuk (Faculty of Public Health): Healthcare ethics and law
  • dr. László Papp: Trends in history of Hungarian jurisdiction
  • prof. dr. István Sándor: Legal history antecedents of wealth planning, asset management and company law, comparative legal analysis of their modern rules, and their different legal constructions;
  • prof. dr. István Sándor: Hungarian and foreign regulation of private law institutions
  • Prof. dr. József Szabadfalvi (Dept. of Jurisprudence and Legal Sociology): Hungarian legal philosophical thinking from the beginnings to the mid-20th century
  • Prof. dr. Béla Szabó (Dept. of Legal History): Der Einfluss der gelehrten Rechte auf die Normentstehung, Normvermittlung und Normdurchsetzung in Ostmitteleuropa im zweiten Jahrtausend

PhD thesis topic proposals

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