Welcome to the website of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law!
Established in 2019, the Institute is named after Ferenc Mádl, an academic, an emblematic figure of Hungarian comparative law, an internationally renowned lawyer and President of the Hungarian Republic. During the establishment Ferenc Mádl Institute for Comparative Law (MFI), existing comparative law institutes in other countries served as an important model, in particular the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law which operates under the Federal Ministry of Justice; the Hellenic Institute of International and Foreign Law; and, in some respects, the Max Planck Institute. Beyond the foreign examples, it was also emphasized during the establishment of the MFI that the Institute should also reflect Hungarian national priorities and characteristics both in terms of its spirit, its tasks and its personal and infrastructure capacity.
The Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize was awarded to Bálint Kovács, a researcher at our Institute
The 2024 Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration was awarded to Bálint Kovács, researcher at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. The world's leading organisation for international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution awards the Memorial Prize every two years to the person under 40 years of age who has written the best published paper on international arbitration, conciliation or other forms of dispute resolution in the previous two years.
The Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize was awarded to Bálint Kovács, a researcher at our Institute
The 2024 Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration was awarded to Bálint Kovács, researcher at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. The world's leading organisation for international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution awards the Memorial Prize every two years to the person under 40 years of age who has written the best published paper on international arbitration, conciliation or other forms of dispute resolution in the previous two years.
Events
Instruments for preserving the unity of family businesses and agricultural assets – perspectives of legal history
On 7 June 2024, the Central European Academy will organise a conference entitled "Instruments for preserving the unity of family businesses and agricultural assets - perspectives of legal history", with the collaboration of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, the Central European Comparative Law Association and the Hungarian Comparative Law Association.
Federalism and the Future of the Diverse EU
On 21-22 March 2024, the Central European Academy will organise a conference entitled "Federalism and the Future of the Diverse EU", in cooperation with the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Miskolc, the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law and the Central European Comparative Law Association.
News
The Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize was awarded to Bálint Kovács, a researcher at our Institute
The 2024 Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration was awarded to Bálint Kovács, researcher at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. The world's leading organisation for international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution awards the Memorial Prize every two years to the person under 40 years of age who has written the best published paper on international arbitration, conciliation or other forms of dispute resolution in the previous two years.
Instruments for preserving the unity of family businesses and agricultural assets – perspectives of legal history
On 7 June 2024, the Central European Academy will organise a conference entitled "Instruments for preserving the unity of family businesses and agricultural assets - perspectives of legal history", with the collaboration of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative...
Federalism and the Future of the Diverse EU
On 21-22 March 2024, the Central European Academy will organise a conference entitled "Federalism and the Future of the Diverse EU", in cooperation with the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Miskolc, the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law and the Central European Comparative Law Association.
About our namesake
Ferenc Mádl
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.
A Mádl Ferenc Összehasonlító Jogi Intézet névadója, a rendszerváltoztatás utáni szabad Magyarország második köztársasági elnöke, kiemelkedő tudású és nemzetközi tekintélyű jogtudós, akadémikus, a magyar jogösszehasonlítás emblematikus alakja.
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