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In 2023 there will be 175 years since the enactment of the so-called April Laws in Hungary (1848), which gave the foundations of the modern state. As a consequence, the Legal History Subcommittee of Section IX of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Legal History Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the […]

In 2023 there will be 175 years since the enactment of the so-called April Laws in Hungary (1848), which gave the foundations of the modern state.

As a consequence, the Legal History Subcommittee of Section IX of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Legal History Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law will organise a conference on “175 Years of the April Laws: Fundamental Legal Transformations in 1848 and as a consequence of the Springtime of Nations” on 5 April 2023 in Budapest, to which you are cordially invited.

March 23 marks Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day. The declaration on its establishment was adopted on March 12, 2007 by a unanimous decision of all members of the Hungarian Parliament. Four days later – on March 16, 2007 – such a resolution was adopted by acclamation by the Polish Parliament.

2022. On 15-16 December, 2022, the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, together with the Hungarian Association of Comparative Law, the Society for Children’s Rights within the framework of Children’s Rights Day convened a two-day conference on international childrens’ rights, which took place at the Sapientia College of Theology. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child introducing the definition of the child into the discourse about children’s rights formed the backbone of the conference.

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.

The international conference took place at University of Miskolc Faculty of Law on 25 October 2022. The scientific event provided good opportunity to the scholars from Central and Eastern European countries to discuss the current issues of emergency powers and exceptional situations. Participants of the conference came from several countries of Central- and Eastern Europe. In the framework of the conference also the first volume of the newly launched book series of Ferenc Mádl Institute was presented.

On 25.06.2022, Endre Domaniczky, senior research fellow of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, gave a lecture on the life of former Hungarian President Ferenc Mádl at the Hungarian Community House in Királyhelmec (Kráľovský Chlmec), Slovakia. The event  where a documentary film about Ferenc Mádl was also shown was attended by local high school […]

A delegation from the Institute of Justice in Warsaw visited Budapest from 11-13 May 2022 in the framework of the new scientific and professional cooperation already underway and to be signed during the meeting.  During the visit, the Polish delegation was represented by Dr hab. Professor Marcin Wielec (Director of the Warsaw Institute of Justice), […]

On 7 May 2022 a memorial conference was held in Rimaszombat commemorating the meeting of Ferenc Mádl, then President of Hungary and Rudolf Schuster, then President of Slovakia, with Géza Erdélyi, former bishop of the Reformed Christian Church in Slovakia, in the Reformed parsonage of Rimaszombat on 19 October 2001.The memorial conference was co-organized by […]

Accepting the invitation of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, and the Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc Dr. Vladan Petrov, full professor in Department of Constitutional Law and Parliamentary Law of the University of Belgrade; judge of the Constitutional Court of Serbia, Member of the Venice Commission for Serbia, gave a […]

March 23 was established as the Polish-Hungarian Friendship Day. The declaration on its establishment was adopted in 2007 by decision of all members of the Hungarian Parliament and four days later the Polish Parliament also adopted the declaration by public acclamation. The resolution was adopted in view of its historical roots, through the common features […]