Chair: Prof. Éva Jakab DSc
Department of Roman Law
H–6720 Szeged, Tisza L. krt. 54., Hungary
Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 546 388
E-mail: jakabeva@juris.u-szeged.hu
Website: www.juris.u-szeged.hu
Assistant chair: Péter Mezei PhD
Faculty of Law
H–6720 Szeged, Tisza Lajos 54., Hungary
Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 196
E-mail: hneemese@juris.u-szeged.hu
Our doctoral school aims to give the opportunity for doctoral students to deepen their knowledge in legal research methodology and to gain more experience in the theoretical background and the practical issues according to their special professional interests. The education in the Doctoral School consists of two parts: uniform lectures throughout six semesters and research work conducted by the students’ advisor at the host department. The best experts of our faculty carry out giving the lectures and the advisory work.
The current scientific work builds upon the rich tradition left for us by the famous professors of this faculty. On one hand it points out a high academic standard we intend to achieve and on the other hand it makes us responsible to nurture and broaden our international relationships with other universities and research institutes in the world. We are especially proud to mention as our predecessors at the faculty: György Bónis (Legal History), Elemér Pólay (Roman Law), István Kovács (Constitutional Law), Iván Meznerics (Financial Law), János Martonyi Snr. (Administrative Law), László Búza (International Law), Róbert Horváth (Statistics), Béla Kemenes (Civil Law), Emil Schulteisz (Criminal Law), István Bibó (Political Sciences), Barna Horváth (Legal Theory) and László Nagy (Labour Law).
The doctoral school gives us the possibility to strengthen further our international connections, professional and personal contacts. As part of the tradition we have permanent relationship with the famous universities in Germany (e.g. Freiburg, Graz, Heidelberg, München, Münster, Giessen, Potsdam, Jena, Ulm, Tübingen). In the last few years this scope has broadened thanks to the different programs of the European Union. We have active partnership with many universities located in Europe e.g. Nanterre, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Aix en Provence, Louvain, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Verona.
Lectures are held in Hungarian in the Doctoral School but we would be pleased to organize courses and consultations in English, German or French for students from abroad.
Educational programmes
1. Constitutional and Legal History
Programme director: Prof. József Ruszoly DSc
Department of György Bónis Seminary
H–6722 Szeged, Tisza Lajos krt. 54., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 543 425 Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 546 731
Research programmes
– Self-government in Hungary from 1848 to 1949 (Supervisor: Prof. József Ruszoly DSc)
– History of the Hungarian Private Law (Supervisor: Prof. Mária Homoki-Nagy PhD)
– Development of the Basic Institutions of Criminal Law in Hungary (Supervisor: Prof. Elemér Balogh PhD)
2. Constitutional, Administrative and Financial Law
Programme director: Prof. László Trócsányi CSc
Department of Constitutional Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 487
Research programmes
– Constitutional development and the specialities of the latest changes (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Judit Tóth CSc)
– Economy of self-governments (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Zoltán Józsa PhD)
– Comparative self-governmental law in Europe (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Jenő Kaltenbach CSc)
– The relation between self-governments and state administration (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Zoltán Józsa PhD)
3. Criminal Law
Programme director: Prof. Ferenc Nagy CSc
Department of Criminal Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 544 462, Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 501
Research programmes
– General Part of the Hungarian Criminal Code (Supervisor: Prof. Ferenc Nagy CSc)
– International and European criminal law (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Krisztina Karsai PhD)
– Enforcement of imprisonment in Hungary regarding the European requirements (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. József Lőrincz CSc; Assoc. Prof. Zsuzsanna Juhász PhD)
– Criminal Law in the Hungarian legal system (Supervisor: Prof. Emeritus Ervin Cséka DSc; Assoc. Prof. Zsanett Fantoly PhD)
4. Civil Law
Programme director: Prof. Imre Szabó PhD
Department of Civil Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 544 026, Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 027
E-mail: papa@juris.u-szeged.hu
Research programmes
– Functions of tort, compensation for material and immaterial damages (Supervisor: Prof. Lajos Besenyei CSc)
– Law of Intellectual Property (Supervisor: Prof. Imre Bérczi CSc)
– Family Law in the Hungarian legal system (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Eszter Fábián Tóthné CSc)
– Actual problems of civil procedure (Supervisor: Prof. Imre Szabó PhD)
– Connections between Company Law and the Law of Co-operatives (Supervisor: Prof. Emeritus József Veres CSc)
5. Agricultural Law, Labour Law and Related Sciences
Programme director: Prof. József Hajdú PhD
Research Group on Social Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 544 474
E-mail: hajdu@juris.u-szeged.hu
Research programmes
– The problems of international and Hungarian Labour Law and social security (Supervisor: Prof. József Hajdú PhD)
– Industrial relations in Japan (Supervisor: Prof. József Hajdú PhD)
– Resolving conflicts of work; the Hungarian regulation of labour disputes (Supervisor: Prof. József Hajdú PhD)
6. Legal Theory, Legal Sociology
Programme director: Prof. Béla Pokol DSc
Department of Philosophy and Sociology of Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 161
E-mail: tunde@juris.u-szeged.hu
Research programmes
– Overlap between legal philosophy and legal methodology (Supervisor: Prof. Béla Pokol DSc)
– Lay jurisdiction in the focus of Comparative Law (Supervisor: Prof. Attila Badó PhD)
– Reform of jurisdiction and European integration (Supervisor: Prof. Attila Badó PhD)
7. International Law, International Private Law and EU Law
Programme director: Prof. László Bodnár CSc
Department of International Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 544 490 Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 422
E-mail: nkjog@hotmail.com
Research programmes
– International tort law (Supervisor: Prof. László Bodnár CSc)
– Legal resources and legal entities (Supervisor: Prof. László Bodnár CSc)
– Legal authority and immunity (Supervisor: Prof. László Blutman PhD)
– Integration and economic cooperation (Supervisor: Prof. László Blutman PhD)
8. Political Sciences
Programme director: Prof. Péter Paczolay CSc
Department of Political Sciences
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 386
Research programmes
– Politics and creation of politics in the European Union (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. György Fábián PhD)
– Theories of international affairs in the European Union (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. László Kovács PhD)
– Social Europe, Employment, social dialogue, local integration strategy (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Edit Soós PhD)
– Community law and constitutionality (Supervisor: Prof. Péter Paczolay CSc)
9. Roman Law
Programme director: Prof. Éva Jakab DSc
Department of Roman Law
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 546 388
E-mail: jakabeva@juris.u-szeged.hu
Research programmes
– Roman criminal law (Supervisor: Prof. Emeritus Imre Molnár DSc)
– Pandectistics and its effect on Hungarian Private Law (Supervisor: Prof. Imre Molnár DSc)
– Contracts’ law: Comparative analysis of the European contract law systems (Supervisor: Prof. Éva Jakab DSc)
– Banks and related legal transactions in the ancient world (Supervisor: Prof. Éva Jakab DSc)
10. Statistics, Demography, Legal Informatics
Programme director: Prof. Tamás Katona CSc
Department of Statistics and Demography
H–6722 Szeged, Rákóczi tér 1., Hungary
Phone: (+36 62) 544 000 ext. 3470, Phone/Fax: (+36 62) 544 648
Research programmes
– Fundamental Rights to Information (Supervisor: Prof. Tamás Katona CSc)
– Theory and methodology of criminal informatics (Supervisor: Prof. Tamás Katona CSc)
– The methodology of criminal statistics (Supervisor: Prof. Tamás Katona CSc)
– Components and tendencies of mortality, trends of international migration (Supervisor: Prof. Tamás Katona CSc)
Representative dissertations (title, author, supervisor, year):