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Law and economics: general and methodology
Consequence-based arguments in legal reasoning: a jurisprudential preface to law and economics, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations (2011)
One of the persistent problems surrounding the discipline of law and economics is the role...
Import, Export, and Multilateral Translation: Methodological Lessons from an Economic Analysis of Paternalism in Contract Law, Interdisciplinary Research in Jurisprudence and Constitutionalism (2011)
In this paper I discuss the role of inter- and multidisciplinary research in jurisprudence and...
Law and Morality in the Regulation of Contracts: Lessons from Ancient Rome (with Gergely Deli), TILEC Discussion Papers (2009)
The way we nowadays think about “immoral” contracts is based on a number of assumptions....
Paternalism in Policy: Prospects and Limitations of an Economic Analysis, Die Unsicherheit der Väter: Zur Herausbildung paternaler Bindungen (2009)
Legal theory
Objectivity and the Law’s Assumptions About Human Behaviour, Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning (2012)
This paper analyses a hitherto neglected aspect of the law’s objectivity: the epistemic and methodological...
Consequence-based arguments in legal reasoning: a jurisprudential preface to law and economics, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations (2011)
One of the persistent problems surrounding the discipline of law and economics is the role...
Legal and Political Theory in the Post-National Age (2011)
In the last decades, regional and global integration processes have made the traditional state-centred view...
Import, Export, and Multilateral Translation: Methodological Lessons from an Economic Analysis of Paternalism in Contract Law, Interdisciplinary Research in Jurisprudence and Constitutionalism (2011)
In this paper I discuss the role of inter- and multidisciplinary research in jurisprudence and...
Szerződésértelmezés hermeneutika és jogpolitika között. A contra proferentem szabály [Contract Interpretation Between Hermeneutics and Policy: The Contra Proferentem Rule], Iustitia kirándul Tanulmányok a »jog és irodalom« köréből [Iustitia on Excursion: Essays in Law and Literature] (2009)
This paper discusses why contract interpretation is substantially different from the interpretation of literary works...
Political theory
Legal and Political Theory in the Post-National Age (2011)
In the last decades, regional and global integration processes have made the traditional state-centred view...
Állam és gazdaság. Az állam gazdaságtudományi elemzései [The State: economic issues and analyses], Államtan Az állam általános elmélete II. A modern állam sajátosságai és fõbb formái. Állam és jog [Staatslehre A General Theory of the State. Vol. 2: Characteristics and main forms of the modern sate. State and law] (2006)
Államelmélet és játékelmélet. Mirõl szól az alkotmány közgazdaságtana? [Game Theory and the Theory of the State. An Outline of Constitutional Economics], Monumentum aere perennius Tanulmányok Péteri Zoltán tiszteletére [Studies in Honour of Zoltán Péteri] (2005)
A large number of central theoretical problems of modern Western states can be epitomised in...
Rational choice sociology
A Bertalan László emlékkönyvrõl, Szociológiai Szemle (2005)
Review article of "Metodológia, társadalom, gazdaság. In memoriam László Bertalan" [Methodology, Society, Economy] (Budapest: Közgazdasági...
Epistemology, Social Theory, Social Research, Review of Sociology (2001)
Review of "Ismeretelmélet, társadalomelmélet, társadalomkutatás" (Budapest: Osiris 1999), the collected papers of László Csontos (1953-1997),...
History of ideas
Jog, jogászat és jogtudomány hatása Weber módszertani nézeteire [The impact of law, lawyering, and jurisprudence on Weber’s methodological views], Századvég (2008)
Law and legal science have played a significant, but hitherto underestimated role in Weber's life,...
From Law to Social Science and Back Again - the First Step. Remarks on the Juristic Origin of Some Weberian Concepts, Ius Unum - Lex Multiplex Liber amicorum Studia Z. Péteri dedicata. Studies in Comparative law, Theory of State and Legal Philosophy (2005)
Gazdaság és jog viszonya a marxista jogelméletben és a jog gazdasági elemzésében [The Relation of ‘Economy’ and ‘Law’ in Marxist Legal Theory and in ‘Law and Economics’], Világosság (2004)
Köznemesi felkelõ vagy következetlen forradalmár? Szabó Ervin és Révai József Kossuth-értelmezései [Ervin Szabó and József Révai on Kossuth] , A bûnbaktól a realista lényeglátóig A magyar politikai és tudományos diskurzusok Kossuth-képei 1849–2002 [Kossuth’s Figure in the Hungarian Political Discourse and Historiography] (2004)
A comparative and critical overview of the historico-ideological writings of two left-wing intellectuals (Ervin Szabóand...
Contract law and theory
Duress, Contract Law and Economics (2011)
This chapter is to appear in Contact Law and Economics, part of the Elgar Encyclopedia...
On the Necessity of Necessity: An Economic Analysis of Contracts Concluded in a Situation of Need (with Ákos Szalai), Silesian Journal of Legal Studies (2010)
An important characteristic of necessity cases is that ex ante and sometimes even ex post...
Law and Morality in the Regulation of Contracts: Lessons from Ancient Rome (with Gergely Deli), TILEC Discussion Papers (2009)
The way we nowadays think about “immoral” contracts is based on a number of assumptions....
Szerződésértelmezés hermeneutika és jogpolitika között. A contra proferentem szabály [Contract Interpretation Between Hermeneutics and Policy: The Contra Proferentem Rule], Iustitia kirándul Tanulmányok a »jog és irodalom« köréből [Iustitia on Excursion: Essays in Law and Literature] (2009)
This paper discusses why contract interpretation is substantially different from the interpretation of literary works...
Policy considerations in contract interpretation: the contra proferentem rule from a comparative law and economics perspective, Contract Theory - Corporate Law (2009)
Deviations from the common intentions of the parties in contract interpretation is sometimes attributed to...
Constitutional law and theory
Az Alkotmánybíróság határozata az ingatlanokat terhelő vagyonadóról. A jogbiztonság követelménye az adótörvényekkel szemben [The Hungarian Constitutional Court on Real Estate Tax: Legal Certainty in Tax Law], Jogesetek Magyarázata (2010)
This is comment on a ruling of the Hungarian Constitutional Court on the rule-of-law requirements...
A közteherviselés (70/I. §) [The duty to contribute to public revenues], Az Alkotmány kommentárja [Commentary to the Hungarian Constitution] (2009)
This chapter discusses the duty to contribute to public revenues, i.e. the constitutional power to...
Az alkotmánybíróság és a közgazdasági érvelés [Constitutional courts and economic reasoning], Fundamentum Az emberi jogok folyóirata [A Journal on Human Rights] (2005)
Államelmélet és játékelmélet. Mirõl szól az alkotmány közgazdaságtana? [Game Theory and the Theory of the State. An Outline of Constitutional Economics], Monumentum aere perennius Tanulmányok Péteri Zoltán tiszteletére [Studies in Honour of Zoltán Péteri] (2005)
A large number of central theoretical problems of modern Western states can be epitomised in...