Articles in Journals
Jogelmélet jog nélkül? [Legal Theory without Law? A Review of Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, A Legal Theory Without Law. Posner v. Hayek on Economic Analysis of Law], Miskolci Jogi Szemle (2008)
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....
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,...
Az alkotmánybíróság és a közgazdasági érvelés [Constitutional courts and economic reasoning], Fundamentum Az emberi jogok folyóirata [A Journal on Human Rights] (2005)
A Bertalan László emlékkönyvről, Szociológiai Szemle (2005)
Review article of "Metodológia, társadalom, gazdaság. In memoriam László Bertalan" [Methodology, Society, Economy] (Budapest: Közgazdasági...
Posner és a privacy. Az információszabadság néhány problémája a jog gazdasági elemzésének szemszögéből [Posner on Privacy: An Economic Analysis of Freedom of Information], Kontroll [Control. A Journal in Sociology of Law] (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)
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)
Reasons for Limiting Freedom of Contract: Questions of Philosophy and Policy, Jogelméleti Szemle / Journal of Legal Theory (2003)
A kétharmados törvények helye a magyar jogforrási hierarchiában [Qualified Majority and the Hierarchy of Sources of Law in Hungary] (with András Jakab), Fundamentum (2001)
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
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
A jogosultságok konceptualizálásának és modellezésének lehetőségei a racionális döntések elméletében [Conceptualising and Modelling Rights in Rational Choice Theory], Jogosultságok [Rights] (2009)
‘A közteherviselés (70/I. §)’ [The duty to contribute to public revenues], Az Alkotmány kommentárja [Commentary to the Hungarian Constitution] (2009)
This is a chapter of a multiple-authored 3000 page doctrinal commentary on the Hungarian constitution...
Duress, Contract Law and Economics (2009)
This chapter is to appear in the Elgar Encyclopedia on contract Law (2nd ed), in...
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...
Paternalism in Policy: Prospects and Limitations of an Economic Analysis, Die Unsicherheit der Väter: Zur Herausbildung paternaler Bindungen (2009)
Import, Export, and Multilateral Translation: Methodological Lessons from an Economic Analysis of Paternalism in Contract Law, Import and Export in Jurisprudence. Proceedings of the Special workshop at the XXIIIth IVR world congress (2009)
In this paper I discuss the role of inter- and multidisciplinary research in jurisprudence and...
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...
Állam és gazdaság. Az állam gazdaságtudományi elemzései [The State: economic issues and analyses], Államtan Az állam általános elmélete II. A modern állam sajátosságai és főbb 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)
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)
Államelmélet és játékelmélet. Miről 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...
Gazdaság és jog (The Economy and the law), Társadalmi-jogi kutatások (Socio-legal Studies) (2005)
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 történetéből [Chapters from the History of Legal Philosophy] (2004)
A textbook chapter on Richard Posner, focusing on his pioneering work in the economic analysis...
Köznemesi felkelő vagy következetlen forradalmár? Szabó Ervin és Révai József Kossuth-értelmezései [Ervin Szabó and József Révai on Kossuth] , A bűnbaktól 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...
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
Contracts and Morals: Towards an Economic Analysis of Immoral Contracts in Ancient Rome (with Gergely Deli) (2009)
The way we nowadays think about “immoral” contracts is based on a number of assumptions....
ON THE NECESSITY OF NECESSITY: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTS CONCLUDED IN A SITUATION OF NEED (with Ákos Szalai), HUNGARIAN ASSOCIATION FOR LAW AND ECONOMICS WORKING PAPERS (2008)
An important characteristic of necessity cases is that ex ante and sometimes even ex post...
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)
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...
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...