Head of Research Group
István H. Szilágyi full-professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
István H. Szilágyi began his academic carrier (Phd 1998, Dr. habil. 2009) in 1989, the year of democratic change in Hungary. He has been teaching at the Faculty of Law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest since its foundation, 1995. He has diverse scholarly interest united by his devotion to the interdisciplinary approach in legal studies. He conducted legal anthropological research among the Hungarian Roma minority in the 1990's and studied the history of the Hungarian legal thinking with special regard to Barna Horváth's and István Bibó's works. After the millennium, his attention turned to the field of 'law and literature'. He was a founding member and the first president of the Hungarian Society for Law and Literature. He has returned to the empirical socio-legal studies in 2012 entering in a research group studying the Hungarian legal consciousness.
Members
Balázs Fekete doctor habil. Ph.D. LLM, associate professor, Eötvös Lóránd University
Balázs Fekete is Associate Professor at the Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Department of Law and Society, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, both in Budapest. His main areas of research include rights consciousness, legal alienation, and comparative legal studies methodology. His most recent book is Paradigms in Modern Comparative Law. A History (Hart Publishing, 2021)
György Gajduschek Ph.D. senior research fellow, Centre for Social Sciences, HAS, Budapest
György Gajduschek is a senior researcher and head of a research unit at the Centre for Social Sciences and a professor at Corvinus University, Budapest. He holds an MA in Sociology from Hungary and an MA in Public Administration from Rockefeller College (SUNY, US), as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science and one in Legal Studies. His research interests turned towards legal culture in the past few decades. He studied empirically legal knowledge, legal compliance, and attitudes towards the rule of law in Hungary in a historical and comparative setting. He has published several papers both in Hungarian and in English.
