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Dr. Tóth, Zoltán, senior lecturer

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Office: 510

Consultation: as agreed upon

Telephone: +36-62-544-000 / 3495

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

Curriculum vitae

 

Personal data:

 

  • Name: dr. Zoltán Tóth
  • Birth place and date: Kecskemét, 1978. június 21.
  • Notification address: 27. Virag street IX/53., 1042, Budapest, Hungary
  • Telephone No.: 0036-70/254-2550
  • E-mail: toothzoltaan@gmail.com

 

Education:


  • 1997  high school graduation at Bolyai János Gramar School, Kecskemét
  • 1997-2002 graduated in the Faculty of Law at Szeged University
  • 2003-2006 Ph.D. postgraduate course in the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd Univeraity, Department of  Theory of Law
  • 2008 February PhD Degree (Title of the dissertation: History, Philosophy and Theoretical Debates of Capital Punishment)

 

Place of work:


  • From 2002 Faculty of Law at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Department of Theory of Law, assistant professor, later associate professor
  • From 2002 Faculty of Law at the Szeged University, Department of Theory of Law, assistant professor

 

Lecturer activity:

 

At Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church:

  • Philosophy of Law seminar
  • Sociology of Law lecture
  • The matter of capital punishment in the theory of law

 

At Szeged University:

  • Sociology of Law lecture
  • Sociology lecture
  • Philosophy of Law seminar
  • The matter of capital punishment in the theory of law


Scientific achievements:

 

  • 2 monographs
  • 67 articles, comments and notes
  • 10 scientific lectures

 

Knowledge of language:


  • competent knowledge of English
  • intermediate knowledge of German



List of Publications


Books, monographs

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Philosophy of and Theoretical Debates on Capital Punishment. Rejtjel, Budapest, 2008
  2. Tóth J., Zoltán: The History of Capital Punishment. Századvég, Budapest, 2010
  3. Kiss, Anna – Kiss, Henriett – Tóth J., Zoltán (ed.): Caper or Crime? CompLex, Budapest, 2010

 


Articles, notes, comments


1. Tóth J., Zoltán – Ézsiás, Béla Gábor: Expert Systems in the Legal Process. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2002/3.


  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Dynamist Constitutionalization and the Neoformalist Tendencies. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2002/4.

 

  1. Nagy, Zsolt – Tóth J., Zoltán: The Status of the Education of Law. (A Survey about Factors Affecting the Legal Education). Jogelméleti Szemle, 2002/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Utopia or a Real Ideal Society? (Reflections on Thomas More’s Book). Jogelméleti Szemle, 2003/1.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Death Penalty: Themes of the Controversy. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2003/2.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Capital Punishment in the Holy Bible. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2003/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Anomalies of the Tertiary Education in Hungary. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2003/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Issue of Death Penalty from the Aspects of the Deterrence Effect and the Goals of the State Penalty. Belügyi Szemle, 2003/11-12.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Death Penalty and the International Conventions. Jogi Fórum, January 11th, 2004.

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: Richard Posner and the Economic Approach to Law. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2004/1.

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: The Death Penalty in the Antiquity. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2004/4.

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: The Issues of Capital Punishment: Humanity, Necessity and the Justizmord. Themis, December, 2004.

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: Capital punishment vs. Imprisonment – from a Financial Point of View. Jogi Fórum, April 10th, 2005

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: Has the Capital Punishment any Deterrence Effect? Collega, April, 2005

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: „Indivisible and unrestrictable?” – Thoughts about the Right for Life and Human Dignity apropos of the Decision of Euthanasia of the Hungarian Constitutional Court. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2005/1.

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: John Rawls’ Theory of Justice. (Recension.) Jogelméleti Szemle, 2005/1.

 

  1.  Tóth J., Zoltán: The Necessity of the Natural Law. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2005/2.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Capital Punishment – from Newer Aspects. Belügyi Szemle, 2005/11.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Abolitionism as a World Tendency. Themis, December 2005

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The American Law Professors’ Situation, Possibilities and Typical Career. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2006/1.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Effect of the Abolitionism and the International Conventions on the Abrogation of Capital Punishment in Hungary. In: Hegedűs, Bulcsú (ed.): Globalization: the Impact of the International Tendencies on the Hungarian Legal System. Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, 2006

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Crimes and Punishment in the Early Medieval Islamic Law. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2006/2.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Goal of Philosophy of Law as a Discipline. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2006/2.

 

  1. Tóth J. Zoltán: Death Penalty in the Antique East. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2006/3.

 

  1. Toth J., Zoltan: The Present Status of Capital Punishment. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2006/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: How To Be a Lawyer in the United States. Collega, 2006/1.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Processual Rules in Capital Cases in the Era of Feudalism in Hungary. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2006/4.

 

  1. Toth J., Zoltan: The Death Penalty in the United States. Collega, 2006/2-3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Regulation of Capital Punishment in the Middle Ages with especial regard to the Holy Roman Empire. Jogtörténeti Szemle, 2006/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Issue of Capital Punishment in the Ancient Greek and Roman Legal Philosophy. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2007/1.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Dynamism, Originalism, Textualism. Jogtudományi Közlöny, 2007/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Martial Law and Capital Punishment in the 1910’s in Hungary. Themis, June, 2007

 

  1. Toth J., Zoltan: The History of Capital Punishment in the United States. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2007/2.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Abolitionist Tendency in Hungary: the History of Capital Punishment between the Sixties and the Eighties. Legal Workshop of Debrecen (Debreceni Jogi Műhely), 2007/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Enlightenment and Abolition: The Abrogation of Capital Punishment in the Main European Countries. Acta Humana, 2007/1-2.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Becoming and Career of a Law Professor in the United States. In: Nagy, Tamás – Nagy, Zsolt (ed.): Philosophy of Law and Self-Reflection. Pólay Elemér Foundation, Szeged, 2007

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Abolition in the World at Present Time. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2007/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Death Penalty in the Christian Theological Thinking. Collega, 2007/1.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Contribution to the Controversy on Legal Dogmatics. In: Miklós, Szabó (ed.): Legal Dogmatics and Theory of Law. Bíbor Kiadó, Miskolc, 2007

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Issue of the Human Rights and Capital Punishment in the Philosophical Thinking of the Enlightenment. In: Marianna, Nagy (ed.): Legal Studies. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2007

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Issue of the Death Penalty in the Utopias and Prince’s Mirrors of the Early Modern Times. Collega, 2007/2-3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Criminal Law and Literature: Koestler and Camus on Capital Punishment. In: Studia in honorem István Balogh. Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, 2007

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Capital Punishment in the Jewish Law on the Basis of the Talmud and the Halacha. Állam- és Jogtudomány, 2007/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Death Penalty in Ancient Legal Systems. Acta Juridica et Politica, Tomus LXX. Fasc. 18., Szeged, 2007

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Substantive Legal Rules Concerning the Death Penalty in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Era of Feudalism. Jogtörténeti Szemle, 2007/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The History of Capital Punishment in the Post-World War II Decades in the United States

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Legal Regulation Concerning Capital Punishment in Regular and Martial Law right after World War II and in the First Decade of Communism in Hungary. Miskolci Jogi Szemle, 2008/1.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Economic Approach to Capital Punishment. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2008/2.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Capital Punishment and Deterrent Effect: What Empirical Analyses Show. Valóság, 2008/6.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Death Penalty in Hungary from the Enlightenment until the „Csemegi Code”. De Iurisprudentia et Iure Publico, 2008/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Death Penalty’s Last Three Decades in Hungary: From the Act V of 1961 until the Constitutional Court’s Abolition of Capital Punishment. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2008/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Crime, Punishment, Free Will. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2008/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Issue of the Penalty of Death in the 17th Century Natural Law and the Thinking of the Enlightenment

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Capital Punishment and the Abolition Therof in 2009. In: Bobvos, Pál (ed.): Reformator iuris cooperandi. Pólay Elemér Alapítvány, Szeged, 2009

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Extracts from Law and Literature: Koestler and Camus on Capital Punishment. Debreceni Jogi Műhely, 2009/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Matter of Capital Punishment in the 18-19th Century German Philosophy. De iurisprudentia et iure publico, 2009/3-4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Methods of Interpretation in the Judicial Decisionmaking Process. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2009/4.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Place of Capital Punishment. Századvég, 2009/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: On Rights and Obligations. In: Ficsor, Krisztina – Győrfi, Tamás – Szabó, Miklós (ed.): Rights: Practice and Theory. Bíbor Kiadó, Miskolc, 2009

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltan: Capital Punishment and Deterrent Effect: What Empirical Surveys Show. Studia Juridica Caroliensia, Vol. 5 (2010)

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Regulations Concerning Martial Law in Hungary in the 20th Century. Hadtudomány, 2010, Internet Issue.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Capital Punishment and the Abolition Therof in 2009. Valóság, 2010/8.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Penal Law in Literature, Literature in Penal Law. Jogelméleti Szemle, 2010/3.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Unlawful Appropriation. In: Kiss Anna et al. (ed.): Caper or Crime? CompLex Kiadó, Budapest, 2010

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Child Labour. In: Kiss Anna et al. (ed.): Caper or Crime? CompLex Kiadó, Budapest, 2010

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Taking the Law into One’s Own Hands. In: Kiss Anna et al. (ed.): Caper or Crime? CompLex Kiadó, Budapest, 2010

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: Human Unrightfulness in 1984: The Darkest Utopia. Ügyészek Lapja, 2010/5.

 

  1. Tóth J., Zoltán: The Legal Regulation Concerning Martial Law in Hungary in the Horthy Era. Hadtudomány, 2010/4.