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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Best Practices in the Regulation of Adoption in a Comparative Legal Context
The second volume of the Modern Comparative Legal Trends series, entitled Best Practices in the Regulation of Adoption in a Comparative Legal Context, has been published.
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”.
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10 years of the Hungarian Criminal Code European Challenges, Central European Responses in the Criminal Science of the 21st Century
he conference analysing the situation of the code of substantive criminal law of November of 2022 in the ceremonial hall of the Hungarian Surpreme Court.
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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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Best Practices in the Regulation of Adoption in a Comparative Legal Context
The second volume of the Modern Comparative Legal Trends series, entitled Best Practices in the Regulation of Adoption in a Comparative Legal Context, has been published.
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Cyberbullying, Hate Crime and Related Issues from a Comparative Perspective
Cyberbullying, Hate Crime and Related Issues from a Comparative Perspective is a comprehensive work by the Ferenc Mádl Institute that examines the phenomena of hate speech and cyberbullying in a European comparison.
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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.
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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