School of Law

Timely Questions in International Law

An exchange of views on topical and relevant questions of international and European law that offer an opportunity to consult on research papers.

The Spirit of International Law

The aim of this course is to discuss the distinctive features and dynamics of public international law, its sources, structure, fundamental principles, core values, the nature the law formation, the consequences of the expansion of its subjects along with the fragmentation of international law. The course will examine these abstract issues in the context of contemporary challenges of international politics and relations, including economic globalization.

A World Made New

The course aims to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by exploring the adventurous history of its drafting, the late-night debates, the subsequent impacts of the adoption along with the controversies and key challenges surrounding the international human rights system the UDHR built. The course aims to analyze the dominant role of human rights in contemporary public thinking and debates as well as the wide-ranging implications of this phenomenon. It seeks to examine the role of national sovereignty and subsidiarity in the human rights system along with the current proliferation of rights’ claims.

Globalization Through International Law

The course sheds light on the areas of international law that serve as pillars for the rise of economic globalization. It will cover the international legal protection of capital investment, international trade law as well as the law of international financial institutions. The course aims to explore how these areas of law operate, what their impacts on state sovereignty are and how they relate to other fields of international law. The course also aims to explore the ongoing reform efforts that aspire to offer a more harmonious and integrated vision of international economic and especially investment law that takes into account other areas and rules of international law in the context of economic globalization.

Cultural Heritage in International Law

The course aims to highlight the importance of the international legal protection of culture and cultural heritage in the era of economic globalization. Therefore, the course focus on the impact of international trade and investment law on the protection of culture and explore the interactions between the two fields of international law. It introduces students into the foundations and development of the international law on culture and cultural heritage as well as into its institutions. The course aims to critically explore and assess the current reform approaches that offer a more harmonious and integrated vision that takes better account of cultural heritage in the context of the era of economic globalization.

Összehasonlító szemléletmód a jogalakítás és a jogvitamegoldás területein

Tőkepiacok és értékpapírjog

Az EU jog élőben

State, main power, self-identity and integration

The state and the opinion market: The effects of social media on democracy

Gyermekvédelem az Európai Unióban és az online platformokon

Hogyan teszteljük az adatvédelem DNS-ét?

Gyermekvédelem az Európai Unióban és a platformokon a mesterséges intelligencia világában

Az állam funkciója az integrációban: alapvető vagy lényegi?

Füstös szivarszobák: A média és a politika kapcsolata

Political and state theory of the Catholic Church in the 20th century

The aim of the course is to introduce students interested in the social sciences and philosophy to the 20th century political and political theory tradition of the Catholic Church and to provide a space for discussion of different approaches.

Collision points: the interface between law, philosophy and theology

Social justice is understood in three ways in the history of thought (state theory, philosophy of law, political philosophy, social theory, social philosophy): as welfare, as freedom, and as virtue. Focusing on practical debates, we will look at these theories of justice through the lenses of law, philosophy and theology.

What do we owe the Ceasar? – State theories in Christian thought

The course will explore the great traditions of Christian political thought on the state, focusing on five authors. From the early Christian period to the present day, we will explore issues that are still relevant today through the significant texts of the most prominent authors of the period.

Reflections on Legal Philosophy

The aim of the course is to deepen the work of the Law and Society Centre, to get involved in research, to help school members in their choice of workshop, to discuss the scientific competition, class, specialised and workshop theses. Junior researchers and workshop members also participate in joint work, effectively helping each other to deepen their knowledge of legal theory. Participants bring their own texts or other related studies to the class, all of which are read and discussed after the student has led the session with a presentation. Fellows and guest lecturers involved in the work of the Centre will also be invited.

Law and Cinema

Through the analysis of a major work of cinema, we discuss the relationship between the individual, society and law from different perspectives.

Reading Great Works

The most eminent representatives of humanities, irrespective of historical period and discipline, have always devoted great attention and energy to constantly broadening their horizons, to learning about as many aspects of the world around them as possible beyond their professional interests, and to expanding their education. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the essays of Magyar and European authors, in the spirit of humanist education, in order to broaden their horizons and their general literacy, and to help them develop critical thinking.

Utopias and Dystopias in Social Theory

Utopias are a great tradition in social theory, and a significant subset of these are negative utopias, or in other words dystopias, counter-utopias, sometimes called uchronias. The literary and cinematic formations of these are the subject of this course.

Political Theology and Secular Religions

All the great typical concepts of state theory are secularised theological concepts. Political theology deals with issues such as sovereignty, the rule of the people, dictatorship, economics and environmentalism. Secular religions originate from the enlightenment, from the separation of Church and state, from secularisation. For long, the notion had been that rationalism leads to the slow fading and disappearance of religion. But now it seems that homo naturaliter religiosus: if one does not belong to a traditional organized religion (or a new religious movement), then one tends to fulfil one’s anthropologically funded religious needs and longings by other, pseudo-religions, by the so-called secular religions.

Who is an Intellectual?

Through the reading of major texts, we will examine what it has meant in history and what it means to be an intellectual today. We will shape each other’s perspectives and make important choices, decisions. On the one hand, the subject has a historical arc: the intellectual vocation, which emerged in the Middle Ages, goes through significant turns in the modern age until it reaches the cultural struggles of the postmodern age, with the doubts and question marks of the Magyar regime change. On the other hand, the subject also draws a vocational arc by exploring related basic concepts such as general literacy, classical literacy, the role of the intellectual, the literate class, the formation of social opinion, the canon, the nation, knowledge and the university.