The Departments and Research Centers
The faculty’s organization is built up of departments, which are coordinated by the Dean’s Office, however they enjoy a quite wide independence in teaching and research.
The head of the department is in charge of the organization of the courses and academic programs in the department.
Our departments and their contact data are as follows:
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science
Areas of teaching and research: Constitutional Law, Political Science, Comparative Political Systems, European Sources of Constitutional Law, Parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe
Head of the department: Dr Péter Váczi PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 613-376
email: csizmarik@sze.hu
Department of Criminal Sciences
Areas of teaching and research: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Criminology, The Law of Criminal Sanctions, Criminalistics, Introduction to Criminal Law, European Administrative Penal Law, Fundaments of International Criminal Jurisdiction, The Criminal Law Perspective of Medical Interventions
Head of the department: Professor Dr Gábor Kovács
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 613-752
email: kovacs.kinga@sze.hu
Department of Legal Theory
Areas of teaching and research: Introduction to Legal Theory, The Theory of Law, Sociology of Law, Philosophy, Legal Ethics
Head of the department: Professor Dr Péter Takács
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-400
email: nemethb@sze.hu
Department of Legal History
Areas of teaching and research: International Legal History, The Development of the Hungarian Legal System, History of Hungarian Constitutional Law, Roman Law, Latin language, The History of Hungarian Public Administration, History of European Parliamentarism
Head of the department: Dr Attila Barna PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-400
email: nemethb@sze.hu
Department of Commercial Law and Agricultural Law
Areas of teaching and research: Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Agricultural Law, Patent Law, International and Hungarian Provisions of Transportation, Environmental Law, European Environmental Law
Head of the department: Dr András Szegedi PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-400
email: molnar.erzsebet@sze.hu
Department of Public Administrative Law and Fiscal Law
Areas of teaching and research: The Theory of Public Administration, Public Administrative Law, Fiscal Law, Tax-law, International Customs Law, Organization and Financing of Public Services, The Law of Local Governments
Head of the department: Dr András Lapsánszky PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-400
email: borsosne.toros.emese@sze.hu
Department of Labour Law and Social Law
Areas of teaching and research: Labour Law, Social Insurance in Practice, Labour Law in Judicial Practice, Theory and Practice of Liability in Labour Law, Selected Judgments from the CJEU case-law on Labour Law
Head of the department: Dr Jácint Ferencz PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-400
email: molnar.erzsebet@sze.hu
Department of International Law and European Law
Areas of teaching and research: Public International Law, Private International Law, The Law of European Union, European Trade Law
Head of the department: Dr Judit Glavanits PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-477
email: kovacs.kinga@sze.hu
Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law
Areas of teaching and research: Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law, Family Law, Tort Law
Head of the department: Dr Barna Arnold Keserű PhD
Contact information:
Tel.: + (36) – 96 – 503-400
email: borsosne.toros.emese@sze.hu
Beside the departments, research centers and a special college were established so as to enhance the research activity at the faculty. The research centers are independent organizations within the faculty doing through research on one issue.
The Center for parliamentary research: the topic elaborated on is the structure and functioning of parliaments and legislation in term of constitutional law, public administrative law and political science.
Contact information:
https://pkk.sze.hu/bemutatkozas
The Center for Civil law researches: the research center works on various fields of civil law and civil procedural law.
Contact information:
The Batthyány Lajos College: it is a satellite institute of the faculty. It was founded with the definite purpose of training and mentoring talented law students in order to prepare them for undergraduate lawyers’ competitions and for their prospective PhD. studies as well. Special attention is afforded to their training in theory and legal practice.
Contact information: