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Department of Private International Law
University of Szeged
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Dear Visitor,

welcome to the website of Private International Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Szeged.

We have created our website in a hope to allow both the university students and any visitors to have a closer look in the everyday work of our young but dynamically developing department.

On our website everybody can find detailed information about the department, its members, courses, competitions, conferences, possibilities to travel abroad and all actual things which we consider to be important.

Have a useful surfing!

István Csongor Nagy

Head of the Department

Address: Bocskai street 10-12., H-6722 Szeged, Hungary, Room 80-82.

Tel/Fax: +36 (62) 343-179

E-mail: nmjt@juris.u-szeged.hu

Student consulting hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-11:00

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Although ours is the youngest and probably the smallest department at the Faculty of Law, it develops quickly. The Department members hold the ”Private International Law” and ”International Trade and Business Law” courses in all forms of university law education and the ”Introduction to International Trade and Business Law” course for the students in International Relations Education Program. In addition, we take part in the postgraduate programs of the Faculty of Law and in the educational work of the Master Programs at the Faculty of Economics as well. We are proud that the members of our Department are not only excellent researchers but also recognised experts in the advanced law profession and public affairs.

News, events, informations related to educational and research work of the Department and to the student activities associated to the Department.

The Department was founded in 1996 by Dr. János Martonyi associate professor, former head of the Department, Mátyás Császár senior lecturer and Mrs. Sándor Kávássy administrator. As time passed additional excellent researchers and outstanding experts joined, such as Dr. István Csongor Nagy associate professor, Ph.D., LL.M., S.J.D., than as assistant professor, now already associate professor and the head of our Department, and Ödön Harka research fellow, attorney at law, former senior lecturer. In addition, now 4 Ph.D. candidates, Benedek Tóth, Laszló Salgó, Bianka Tóth, Sulyok Márton continue their researches within the Department.

The members of our Department are not only exellent researchers, but also recognised experts in the advanced law profession and public affairs. It gives the unique speciality to our Department, that our work is characterized by this conversely and productive mix of theory and practice. However, all members of the Department seek a broad publishing activity in national and international forums and also summarize these academic results for university education in order that our students step out and stand once as lawyers and other professionals with a well-founded knowledge in the globalizing and rapidly changing world, and also to take our part in shaping the sphere of law, economics and - in a broader framework - in processes of the whole society by the scientific cultivation of these rapidly developing fields of law.

Tematics of the courses are tought by the members of the Department.

List of recommended topics for mid-term and diploma thesis in the law fields of private international law and international economic law.

Beyond to transfer stable, up-to-date and useful knowledge to the students within the compulsory university education we consider important to provide options and also to encourage the students interested in private international law and international trade and business law to expand their knowledge with further and deeper theoretical and practical details. To achieve this goal, we launched the Scientific Student Group on Private International and International Economic Law (PIIEL SSG) and the Department prepares students and teams - especially within the Scientific Student Group - on the most prestigious international and national educational competitions. In addition, the Department itself also organizes competitions within the compulsory university education.

Information about the ERASMUS scholarships announced by the Department.

The Scientific Student Group on Private International and International Economic Law (PIIEL SSG) was established for the students who are interested in private international law and international trade and business law in order to give space and option to expand their skills and knowledge in science and practise. The Scientific Student Group is a self-operating student community with the supervision of the Department’s lecturers, in which is welcome everybody but also a stable platform for scientific student work and preparing for student tournaments.

Besides the ancient, still living traditions over thousands of years, one of the most characteristic feature of law profession is the expectation on the constant renewal of knowledge as the changes of society appear in the legislation immediately or sometimes even prior to them. In today's globalized world the pressure of constant renewal particularly actual, so the main task of university education is not only the empowerment of students to the latest and widest range of scientific and practical knowledge, but also to enrich the knowledge of practitioners. Our Department and the fields of private international law and international trade and business law join to the Law School’s well recognized and high quality postgraduate education over the Graduate School.