Current Status:

Professor of Law

University of Szeged, Faculty of Law

(workplace since 1967)

 

Academic Records:

1968 - Doctor Juris, József Attila Tudományegyetem (Attila József University) Faculty of Law - summa cum laude

1984 - CSc Candidate of Legal Sciences

1995 - Dr. habil - Professor of Law

 

Administrative Experience at the University of Szeged:

Vice Dean (1984-1985)

Vice Rector (1985-1990)

Head of Department (1996-2008)

 

Research and Education:

International Law, European Union Law

Main Research Field: relationship between domestic law and International Law

Publications:

one monograph (International Treaties and the State)

two studies, author and editor

numerous articles, book-chapters, etc.

Publications in foreign languages:

Einige Hauptfragen der Anwendung der Normen des Völkerrechts im innerstaatlichen Bereich. Acta Jur. et Pol. Szeged, 1983. Tomus XXX. Fasc. 2. pp. 1-37.

El papel del tercer mundo en el desarrollo del derecho internacional. In: ABISMO Bp. 1987. pp. 7-20. (Libros de la Paz 4.)

The powers of national courts to apply rules of international law. In: Questions of International Law. Vol. 5. Bp. 1991. pp. 1-18.

The Relationship of International Law and Domestic Law in our Constitution - de lege ferenda. In: Acta Jur. et Pol. Szeged, 1996. Tomus XLIX. Fasc. 1-48. pp. 111-135.

Challenges at the end of the millennium to the principles of international law. In: Le droit international au tournant du millénaire - l'approche hongroise; In: International Law at the Turn of the Millennium - the Hungarian Approach; Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest 2000. pp. 77-95. (ed. by Kovács, Péter)

Constitution, international treaties and contract. In: Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 3-4/2002: 279-289.

National Report of Hungary, XVIth Quadrennial Congress of Comparative Law Brisbane, Australia, July 2002 In: Party Autonomy: Constitutional and International Law Limits in Comparative Perspective. George A. Bermann (ed.) Jurish Publishing Inc., New York, 2005 pp. 195-206.

Werden die völkerrechtlichen Dilemmas unserer Gesetzgebung gelöst werden? Ungarn auf der Schwelle in die EU, Pólay Elemér Alapítvány, Szeged, 2006. pp. 49-58.

Conferences and Lectures:

Numerous both in Hungary and abroad (Sonnenberg, Turku, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Göttingen, Topeka /Kansas/, San Diego /California/, Atlanta /Georgia/)

Languages:

German

English

Russian

Expert Activities:

Expert of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and/or the Ministry of Justice:

- at the codification of Law-decree 27 of 1982 on the procedures relating to treaties

- at the re-codification of the rules and procedures of treaties (1992)

 

Member of the Expert Committee on the reform of the Constitution (1988)

 

Member of the Expert Committee on the elaboration of the concept of the new Constitution (1994-)

 

Expert of International Law at court proceedings of criminal matters

 

Expert Report on the draft of the modification of the Hungarian Constitution with respect to the accession to the EU (assignment from the Vice President of the Hungarian Parliament)

 

Expert Report on the international legal impediments on certain questions of the prescription of a referendum (assignment from the National Election Commission)

 

Expert analysis of the interpretation of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary-Slovakia) (assignment from the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office)

 

International Experience, Research Abroad:

1979-1980 Bern, Geneva (Switzerland), 10 months

1987, 1990-1991 Heidelberg (Germany), Max Planck Institute, altogether 12 months

1993 Washington D.C., Topeka, San Diego, Atlanta (USA), 2 months

1994 Denmark, 1 month

 

Shorter terms: Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Great-Britain, Italy, Belgium

 

Scientific Activities:

Member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Member of the Committee on Habilitation of the University of Szeged

President and member of the Committee on Habilitation of the Faculty of Law, Szeged

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Law, Szeged

Member of the PhD Council of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Law, Szeged

Head of PhD Program at the Doctoral School (Public and Private International Law, European Law)

Head of research projects

 

Memberships:

Member of the Hungarian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA)

Former member of the Hungarian Branch of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Member of the Presidium of the United Nations Association of Hungary

 

Other Legal Activities:

Attorney since 1987 (Bodnár Law Firm, Szeged)