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.
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Cyberbullying, Hate Crimes and Related Issues from a Comparative Perspective
Cyberbullying, Hate Crime and Related Issues from a Comparative Perspective is a comprehensive volume curated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law.
Events
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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.
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10 years of the Hungarian Criminal Code European Challenges, Central European Responses in the Criminal Science of the 21st Century
On the occasion of the 10th year anniversary of the Hungarian Criminal Code, the conference regarding the achievements of the code of substantive criminal law took place on the 8th and 9th of November of 2022 in the ceremonial hall of the Hungarian Surpreme Court. Besides the development of the national criminal law, topics like the current criminal law issues of the neighboring countries and the newest criminological tendencies in Central Europe were introduced. The quality of the event was raised by the outstanding actors of the national and international scientific community and the prominent representatives of the Hungarian public sector.
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Nation, state and sovereignty
The University of Miskolc Central European Academy (CEA) and the Ferenc Mádl Institute respectfully invite you as part of the 2022 autumn conference series of the Central European Professor Network coordinated by the CEA on November 15 2022 in the building of the Central European Academy in Budapest (Budapest, Városmajor utca 12 .) for the legal conference entitled ‘Nation, state and sovereignty’.
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Cyberbullying, Hate Crimes and Related Issues from a Comparative Perspective
Cyberbullying, Hate Crime and Related Issues from a Comparative Perspective is a comprehensive volume curated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law.
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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.
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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. The conference will […]
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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