Functions
The Institute shall carry out the following tasks in order to further improve the quality of domestic legislation, increase its international standing and reputation, examine the legislation’s enter into force, support domestic legal research and education, and promote international legal relationships and cooperation:
Carries out comparative international legal research
primarily on the legislative activities, experiences and model solutions of European countries; proposals for domestic legislation and the Government’s legislative plan, and on the examination of legislations’ entry into force
Organization of scientific conferences
and other professional events
International professional relations
pursued in the widest possible range; cooperation with domestic and foreign higher education and research institutes and scientific workshops specializing primarily on international comparative law
Advancing legal science
through research, analyses and publishing activities
Policy analyses
prepared and published on successful exemplary legislative solutions
Contributes
to the tasks of the Minister of Justice
Legal research
and analyses on its research topics
news
CEDR-MFI Memorandum of Understanding
8 February 2020, Rome, La Sapienza Universitá di Roma At the Board of Management Meeting of the European Council for Rural Law (CEDR), the representatives of the Board led by President Geoff Whittaker and the representative of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative...
Current Problems of „Limited Liability Company“ Regulation. Competitiveness of the LLC Models
The first English-language conference of our institute was held on December 4, 2019, which focused on the current problems of the LLC and their competitiveness. The Belgian, French, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Serbian, Romanian and the Hungarian regulations were...
EGPL Annual Reunion 2019 Report and information on the next Reunion 2020
Dr. habil. János Ede Szilágyi, Head of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law attended the Annual Reunion of the “European Group of Public Law” (EGPL) between 13-15 September 2019. One of the main reasons of the meeting was the 30th anniversary of EGPL. The...
Conference in Memory of István Szászy
On 16th September 2020, the Conference in Memory of István Szászy will be jointly organized by the Section of Economics and Law of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law.
You can register at institute@mfi.gov.hu until 1st September 2020.
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Scholar, university professor of law, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Minister without portfolio and later Minister of Culture and Public Education in the first two conservative cabinets between 1990-1994. President of Hungary between 2000-2005.
Mádl Ferenc Institute of Comparative Law
address: 1123 Budapest, Alkotás Street 55-61.
e-mail: mfi@mfi.gov.hu
phone: +36 (1) 795-2006
mailing address: 1525 Budapest, Pf. 79.