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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...

 

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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...

 

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Policy Arguments before Courts: Identifying and Evaluating Consequence-Based Judicial Reasoning, Humanitas Journal of European Studies (2009)

This paper is a modest contribution to a long lasting discussion in legal theory and...

 

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Jogelmélet jog nélkül? [Legal Theory without Law?], Miskolci Jogi Szemle (2008)
 

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E-J. Mestmäcker: A Legal Theory without Law (Book review), European Business Organization Law Review (2008)

This is a book review of Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker's A Legal Theory without Law: Ponser v....

 

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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,...

 

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Szerzõdési szabadság és paternalizmus: adalékok a szerzõdési jog közgazdasági elemzéséhez [Freedom of contract and paternalism: a contribution to the economics of contract law] , Századvég (2006)
 

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Az alkotmánybíróság és a közgazdasági érvelés [Constitutional courts and economic reasoning], Fundamentum Az emberi jogok folyóirata [A Journal on Human Rights] (2005)
 

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A Bertalan László emlékkönyvrõl, Szociológiai Szemle (2005)

Review article of "Metodológia, társadalom, gazdaság. In memoriam László Bertalan" [Methodology, Society, Economy] (Budapest: Közgazdasági...

 

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Posner és a privacy. Az információszabadság néhány problémája a jog gazdasági elemzésének szemszögébõl [Posner on Privacy: An Economic Analysis of Freedom of Information], Kontroll [Control. A Journal in Sociology of Law] (2005)
 

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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)
 

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Gazdaság és jog viszonya a marxista jogelméletben és a jog gazdasági elemzésében: néhány kritikai szempont’ [Economy and Law. A Critique of Marxist Legal Theory from a Rational Choice Perspective], Jogelméleti Szemle / Journal of Legal Theory (2003)
 

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In Memoriam László Bertalan, Review of Sociology (2003)
 

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Reasons for Limiting Freedom of Contract: Questions of Philosophy and Policy, Jogelméleti Szemle / Journal of Legal Theory (2003)
 

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A kétharmados törvények helye a magyar jogforrási hierarchiában [Qualified Majority and the Hierarchy of Sources of Law in Hungary] (with András Jakab), Fundamentum (2001)
 

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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),...

 

Books and Monographs

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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...

 

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Freedom of choice and paternalism in contract law: prospects and limits of an economic approach (2008)

This is the Table of Contents of my PhD thesis, defended at Hamburg University Faculty...

 

Contributions to Books and Collective Volumes

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Duress, Contract Law and Economics (2011)

This chapter is to appear in Contact Law and Economics, part of the Elgar Encyclopedia...

 

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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...

 

A jogosultságok konceptualizálásának és modellezésének lehetőségei a racionális döntések elméletében [Conceptualising and Modelling Rights in Rational Choice Theory], Jogosultságok -- Elmélet és gyakorlat [Rights: Theory and Practice] (2009)

This paper is an overview of the efforts made in rational choice theory to conceptualise...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Paternalism in Policy: Prospects and Limitations of an Economic Analysis, Die Unsicherheit der Väter: Zur Herausbildung paternaler Bindungen (2009)
 

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How to use philosophy, economics and psychology in jurisprudence: the case of paternalism in contract law, Theatrum legale mundi. Symbola Cs. Varga oblata (2007)

In this paper I discuss the conceptual and methodological background of an economic approach to...

 

Jogdogmatika versus policy, Jogelmélet és jogdogmatika (2007)
 

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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)
 

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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)
 

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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...

 

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Gazdaság és jog (The Economy and the law), Társadalmi-jogi kutatások (Socio-legal Studies) (2005)
 

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A racionális döntések elméletének helye a jogelméletben [How to Use Rational Choice Theory in Legal Theory?] , Államelmélet – Politikai filozófia – Jogbölcselet Országos tudományos konferencia [Theory of the State, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law. Papers presented at the national conference on legal theory] (2005)
 

Richard A. Posner, Fejezetek a jogbölcseleti gondolkodás történetébõl [Chapters from the History of Legal Philosophy] (2004)

A textbook chapter on Richard Posner, focusing on his pioneering work in the economic analysis...

 

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...

 

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Kapitalizmus és szocializmus Bibó István gondolatrendszerében [István Bibó on Capitalism and Socialism], Doktori iskola, Prelegálások II. Tanulmányok, kommunikációk, recenziók és a PhD. Közlemények [Research Papers of PPCU Law Faculty] (2003)

Although István Bibó’s (1911–1979) reputation in Hungary is based on his political and historical essays,...

 

Working Papers

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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....

 

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The (behavioural) law and economics of contract regulation: explaining procedural limits to freedom of contract, SIDE (Italian Society of Law and Economics) Working Paper (2006)
 

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Freedom of choice and paternalism in contract law: a law and economics perspective, German Working Papers in Law and Economics (2006)

This paper is a preliminary discussion of some theoretical and methodological issues related to my...

 

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The Normativity of Law in Law and Economics, German Working Papers in Law and Economics (2004)

This paper is about some theoretical and methodological problems of law and economics. I will...