European Constitutional and Legal History, first term (feudal and estate ages):

1. Customs, legal compilations and statutes of German peoples (5–10^th centuries)
2. Legal courses and institutions of catholic church law, development of the science of canons and ecclesiastic jurisdiction in the medieval age
3. The heritage of roman law: the evolution and development of civil law in the medieval age and the reception of roman law in the German territorial legislation, jurisdiction and science of law
4. Territorial system of German law in the medieval age: legal compilations of provinces (Landrecht), the laws of free cities (Stadtrecht), the laws and customs of villages (Dorfrecht and Bergrecht)
5. Personal system of medieval German law: the institutions of feudal legal connections
6. Stages of the legal status of villains in Western and Central Europe
7. Some legal institutions of the German private and criminal law in the medieval and the early newer ages
8. The system and important institutions of the French legal system in the medieval and the early newer ages
9. The system and important institutions of the English legal system in the medieval and the early newer ages
10. The public administration of Frankish Empire with special regard to the reforms of Carlos Magnus
11. French estates and their legal institutions in France
12. English estates and their legal institutions in England
13. German imperial and territorial estates in the Holly Roman Empire
14. Legal effects of the war of investiture, of the age of ecclesiastic reformation and of the war of religion onto the history of Europe

European Constitutional and Legal History, second term (newer and bourgeois ages):

1. Constitutional history of England from the 17^th century until 1918
2. Legal history of England from the 17^th century until 1918
3. Constitutional history of France from 1789 until 1940
4. Constitutional history of Germany from 1806 until 1945
5. Constitutional history of the Austrian Empire from 1848 until 1918
6. The ‘ideal’ constitution of Belgium (1831)
7. Jurisdiction on elections in European states (verification)
8. Parliamentary states and their legal institutions in Western Europe
9. Schools of ius naturale and their representatives
10. German historical legal sciences in the 19^th century (Germanism, Romanism)
11. Achievements of German codifications in private law (ALR, ABGB, BGB, ZGB)
12. Achievements of French codifications in the age of Napoleon Bonaparte (Code civil, Code penal, Code d’Instruction Criminelle, Code de procédure civile)
13. An outlook: constitutional history of the United States of America
14. Russian constitution and legal history in the 19^th and 20^th centuries

 

 Other subjects and courses educated by the Department:

 

• Seminars on European Constitutional and Legal History (Dr Antal, Prof Balogh, Prof Blazovich)
• The Jury in Europe and Hungary (Dr Antal)
• Universal Political and Constitutional Processes in the 19^th and 20^th century (Dr Antal)
• Current Church Laws in Hungary (Prof Blazovich)
• History of the Legal Features of Cities in Medieval Europe (Prof Blazovich)
• Comparative History of German Criminal Law in the Medieval Age (Prof Balogh)
• Comparative History of German Criminal Law in the Modern Age (Prof Balogh)