Living in a country under foreign occupation he became engrossed in the science of private law, and (under the influence and with the support of his masters) he started to study the characteristics of socialist, and later of Western European legal systems. Within the socialist bloc, he became one of the early experts on Common Market law, who, following an unexpected historical event, the 1989 regime change in Hungary, was also able to make practical use of his theoretical knowledge for the benefit of his country. In 2021, on the 90th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, the article remembers Ferenc Mádl, legal scholar, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, minister in the Antall- and Boross governments, former President of Hungary. |
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Anniversary: Commemorating the 90th Birthday of Ferenc Mádl, President of the Republic (2000-2005) |
Ferenc Mádl, the Hungarian Professor of European Law |
Journal | Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, Issue 1 2021 |
Keywords | Ferenc Mádl, private international law, Central Europe, V4, Hungary |
Authors | Endre Domaniczky |
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Public Health Emergency: National, European and International Law Responses |
On the Constitutionality of the Punishment of Scaremongering in the Hungarian Legal System |
Journal | Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, Issue 1 2021 |
Keywords | scaremongering, clear and present danger, COVID-19 pandemic, freedom of expression, Constitutional Court of Hungary |
Authors | András Koltay |
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Scaremongering criminalized as a limitation to freedom of speech in Hungarian law. In lack of relevant case-law, free speech commentators rarely discussed the provision until the Government took action to step up the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ensuing amendment of the Criminal Code in Spring 2020 brought the subject back to the forefront of public debate. The article analyses the constitutional issues related to the criminalization of scaremongering, taking the two available Constitutional Court decisions rendered in this subject as guideline. Though the newly introduced legislation attracted widespread criticism in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe, a thorough examination of the new statutory elements makes it clear that public debate and critical opinions may not be stifled by prosecuting individuals for scaremongering. Although the applicable standard cannot yet be determined with full accuracy, the Constitutional Court’s decisions and relevant academic analysis resolve the main issues in order to protect freedom of expression, while the clarification of further details remains a matter for the case-law. |
Anniversary: Commemorating the 90th Birthday of Ferenc Mádl, President of the Republic (2000-2005) |
Back to the Future: Ferenc Mádl, The Law of the European Economic Community (1974)Investment Protection Then and Now |
Journal | Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, Issue 1 2021 |
Keywords | Ferenc Mádl, investment protection, SEGRO and Horváth, Achmea, BIT |
Authors | Miklós Király |
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The first part of the article (Sections 1-2) reviews Prof. Ferenc Mádl’s magnum opus, published in 1974, emphasizing the importance of the monograph’s publication in the communist era. It discusses the unique structure of the volume, which, from the perspective of undertakings and companies, examined the fundamental economic freedoms and EEC competition law in parallel. The second part (Sections 3-5) highlights the issue of investment protection, noting that Mádl’s early academic theorem has been vindicated decades later by the case-law of the CJEU, in particular in its SEGRO and Horváth judgment: Provisions ensuring free movement of capital serve to protect foreign investments as well. |
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Jurisdiction v. State Immunity in the 21st Century |
Journal | Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, Issue 1 2014 |
Authors | László Burián |
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Book Review |
A Whole Image or a Few Pieces of Mosaic?A Comment on the Monograph of Miklós Király: Unity and Diversity – The Cultural Effects of the Law of the European Union |
Journal | Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law, Issue 1 2013 |
Authors | Bartha Ildikó |
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