Conference

Hungarian Experiences

Theoretical and Methodological Issues of Sociological and
Empirical Comparative Research of Legal Consciousness

12–13 May 2022
Budapest, Pázmány Péter Catholic University

In the history of Hungarian sociology of law, there has been a continuous tradition of legal consciousness related research since the mid-1960s (Fekete-H. Szilágyi, 2017). The last decade has witnessed a new blooming of research in this field (Fekete-Gárdos-Orosz, 2017; Gajduschek-Fekete, 2015; Gajduschek 2017a, 2017b; H. Szilágyi-Jankó-Badó, 2018; H. Szilágyi, 2021; H. Szilágyi-Kelemen-Hall, 2021), which has fortunately coincided with a Europe-wide resurgence of interest in the topic (Hertog, 2018). In consequence of the right-wing turn in 2010, the Hungarian political and legal system has undergone significant changes and it has been moving towards the implementation of an illiberal democracy (Feischmidt-Majtényi, 2019). This raises the question to what extent may the legal consciousness related research contribute to the assessment of these changes and whether they can forecast the direction of further developments (Jakab-Gajduschek, 2019). However, the Hungarian experience gains its significance only in an international comparison (Gajduschek, 2019; Fekete, 2019, 2020). The aim of our research group is to disseminate and to discuss its findings with the international and domestic research community, creating an opportunity to consider both theoretical and methodological issues.

Programme

12 May 2022

9:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:10 Opening remarks

Theoretical and methodological panel - Chair: Balázs Fekete

10:10-11:00 Keynote speech: András Sajó

11:00-11:35 Axel Pohn-Weidinger: Can we import "legal consciousness studies"? A theoretical investigation into the relation between "legal culture" and "legal consciousness"

11:35-12:10 István H. Szilágyi: Social Legal Consciousness or Legal Culture?

12:10-13:15 Lunch

13:15-13:50 William Cullerne Bown: An epistemic theory of the criminal process

13:50-14:25 Raphael van Riel: A hyper-intensionalist theory of law

14:25-15:00 Maciej Juzaszek: Phenomenography as a method to study comparative education experiences of PhD in law

15:00-15:35 Zoltán Fleck: Legal consciousness in autocratic systems

15:35-16:00 Coffee Break

Hungarian experiences panel - Chair: István H. Szilágyi

16:00-16:50 Keynote speech: András Jakab

16:50-17:25 György Gajduschek: Hungarian Legal Culture. An overview of recent empirical studies

17:25-18:00 Sam Gilchrist Hall: Introduction to the Empirical Results of Changing Legal and Civil Culture in an Illiberal Democracy (István H. Szilágyi, László Kelemen, Sam Gilchrist Hall)

13 May 2022

Comparative sociological research panel - Chair: György Gajduschek

9:00-9:50 Keynote speech: Marc Hertogh

9:50-10:25 Manako Kinoshita: The Changes of Japanese Attitude toward Law and Legal System: Comparing the Results of the Survey conducted in 1976 , 2005 and 2022

10:25-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:20 Balázs Fekete: How Does Legal Alienation Work in the Hungarian Reality? Findings of a Focus Group Study

11:20-11:55 Anna Juzaszek: Religious only marriages in Poland : Empirical Studies

11:55-12:30 Rebeca Perez Leon: Why Mexicans (Dis)Obey the Law Social Norms, Legal Punishment and Pluralistic Ignorance

12:30-12:40 Closing remarks

12:40-13:40 Lunch