Legal Theory I and II

The course provides knowledge on the definition of law, legal system; layers of law; development of European legal systems; history of legal theory; differences between the dogmatics and theories of civil law and criminal law; legal policies; sources of law; validity of law; judicial law-making; development of Hungarian, German, French, English legal thinking; theories of Habermas, Posner, Jhering, Hart; creation and development of legal terminology.

Compulsory reading: Pokol, Béla: Társadalomtudományi Trilógia, Telemedia Network

Legal and Organization Sociology

The course provides knowledge on the formation and development of legal sociology; Hungarian approaches to legal sociology; expansion of law and lawyers with respect to Hungary, Eastern-Europe and the Western Hemisphere; issues of legal proceedings, such as their frequency and timing; evasion of law; obtaining law and its impediments; legal assistance; costs of legal proceedings; analysis of legal sociology of reparations; American theories on reparations; sociology of public law; sharing of power, checks and balances; separation of power, independent branches of power; sociology of legal ideas; natural law and legal positivism; sociology of human rights.

Sociology

The course provides knowledge on the most important sociological thinkers in history (Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Parsons, Luhmann, Habermas etc.); functional differentiation of society; theories of sociology; law, politics, science and media as sub-systems of society; French sociology (Bourdieu, Boudon, Foucault, Crozier).

Compulsory reading: Pokol, Béla: Szociológiaelmélet. Rejtjel Kiadó. Budapest. 1999.

Legal Basics

The course provides knowledge on the mechanisms of control of behaviour in society; functional differentiation of society; independence of law; main groups of lawyers and their tasks; systems of legal education int he world; analysis of definition of law; sources of law; basic issues of legal norms; differentiation in legal responsibility and liability; means and methods of interpretation of law; validity of law.

Compulsory reading: Pokol, Béla: Jogi alaptan. Rejtjel Kiadó. Budapest. 2000.