Balázs Pálvölgyi, PhD

Lawyer (ELTE, 1997), historian (ELTE, 2005), PhD from ELTE Faculty of Law in 2007. Since 2000, he has been teaching legal history at the Széchenyi István University, and in 2015-2016 he also taught at the National University of Public Service. He has been awarded several scholarships for research in Vienna and has participated in research projects.

In addition to her academic work, she worked at the National Communications Authority from 2007-2010, at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice from 2010-2011, at the Pest County Government Office from 2012-2016, and at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Paris from 2016-2021.

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Scientific (PhD) degrees

ELTE - Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences - 2007 - PhD

Degrees in higher education

Eötvös Loránd University - law - 1997

ELTE - history - 2005

Teaching experience

Széchenyi István University - Department of History of Law - associate professor

National University of Public Service - Department of History of State and Law - associate professor - 2015-16

Previous affiliations

Pálvölgyi Law Firm - trainee solicitor - 1997-2000

National Communications Authority - expert of regulation - 2007-2010

Ministry of Public Administration and Justice - head of department - 2010-2011

Government Office of Pest County - head of deparment - 2012-2016

Hungarian Cultural Institute, Collegium Hungaricum, Paris - scientific attaché - 2016-2021

Research projects

Crises, State and Society. Attempts at Solutions and Transformations in Austria and Hungary in the 19th-21st Cent. - OAD - tag - 2014-15

Scholarships/grants

Soros Foundation - No. 222. - 2000 (1 month)

OMAA-OAD, Vienna - research scholarship - 2001 (3 months)

Habsburg Institute Budapest - research scholarship - 2008 (8 months)

OAD - research scholarship - 2016 (1 month)

Spoken languages

English - advanced

French - advanced

German - intermediate

Research topics

Public health administration in the era of dualism

Hungarian migration policy 1867-1924

Memberships

European Society for History of Law - member - 2009-

European Society for Comparative Legal History - member - 2016

Key-questions and milestones of the Hungarian migration policy (1867-2010s).

The course presents the evolution of Hungarian migration processes, their historical background and governmental responses to the phenomenon of migration, the steps taken to influence migration processes, the intersection of intentions, ideologies and opportunities.

Memory of Tastes – French History – French Cheese

The history of many French cheeses is linked to the history of the country. The cultural and public history of a particular historical period is illustrated by a typical cheese. The cheeses linked to each theme will be tasted. Invited speakers also took part in the course.

Epidemics and the creation of the modern public health system in Hungary (1867-1914)

The aim of the course is to learn about the development of the modern Hungarian public health system.

Featured publications

Hungarian migrant communities decoupling from the old country in the United States (1900-1920s)

Pálvölgyi Balázs (2020),

In: Klimaszewska, Anna; Gałędek, Michał (szerk.) Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. II:Public Law) Brill/Nijhoff

The Hungarian migrant community’s thirty-year-development in the US shows how the most important stages evolved, appeared, became a diaspora and the trend towards assimilation. Seeing the strong activity of Budapest in the issue, this diasporic cycle’s stages and periods clearly reflected in the governmental aims and measures.

La question de la criminalisation dans la politique de migration en Hongrie (1881-1903)

Pálvölgyi Balázs (2014),

In: Jog-Állam-Politika

The Hungarian government was aware of the problem of emigration as early as the 1870s. As the involvement of agents in the increase of emigration seemed obvious, the government chose the easier way: in the first decrees it targeted this activity From the 1890s onwards, the policy changed: a much more comprehensive approach was adopted. Since the turn of the century, all governments have sought to find a form of regulation that is acceptable to all, so as to slow down or at least control emigration. Despite all governmental efforts, mass Hungarian emigration was only halted by the end of the world war and then by the end of immigration opportunities in the US, the quota system.

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