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Profile
After having graduated at Pécs in law in 1965,
Csaba Varga joined the Institute for Legal Studies of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest as a researcher
in legal philosophy, where he is now distinguished as a scientific
adviser. He started teaching legal philosophy at Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest in the early ‘80s, where he was appointed
a professor in 1992. As a senior political adviser to the
first free-elected prime minister of Hungary after the fall
of communism, he could take part in the re-foundation of the
Catholic University in Hungary during the early ‘90s. Serving
also as one of the founders of its Faculty of Law, he became
the director of its Institute for Legal Philosophy in 1995
to develope one of the most demanding curricula for teaching
theoretical subjects in law in Europe [cf. ].
By instituting the National Branch of the International Association
for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Hungary
in 1975, by launching the series of „Jogfilozófiák / Philosophiae
Juris” in 1988 (now with some forty volumes regularly reprinted
and widely used in both research and education), by organising
international conferences under the aegis of the IVR and the
International Institute for the Sociology of Law at Oñati
(Guipuzkoa, Spain), by managing TEMPUS projects within the
European Union PHARE program within the scheme of some thirty
Western European partners in legal philosophy, he may have
contributed to revitalise theoretical legal thinking in his
country.
As a founding board member of several journals (including
Current Legal Theory, Ratio Juris as well as
Legal Theory) and as an associate to the International
Academy of Comparative Law, he is honoured by professorship
having visited Lund, Canberra, Waseda/Tokyo, Yale/New Haven,
Edinburgh, Münster and Stockholm, as well as by frequent guest
lecturing and conference participation.
In addition to a number (catalogued in the bibliographies
included herewith) of books he authored/edited also in English
and papers he published at international fora too, his publications
do include
as books
· Paradigms
of Legal Thinking (Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó 1999) [Philosophiae Iuris]
· European
Legal Cultures [with Volkmar Gessner
& Armin Höland] (Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Singapore,
Sydney: Dartmouth 1996) [TEMPUS Textbook Series on European
Law and European Legal Cultures 1]
· Comparative
Legal Cultures (Aldershot, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Sydney: Dartmouth & New York: The New
York University Press 1992) [The International Library of
Essays in Law & Legal Theory, Legal Cultures 1]
as papers
· ‘Change
of Paradigms in Legal Reconstruction (Carl Schmitt and the
Temptation to Finally Reach a Synthesis)’ in Scandinavian
Studies in Law 48 (2005)
· ‘The
Hart-phenomenon’ Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
91 (2005) 1
· ‘Buts
et moyens en droit’ in Giovanni Paolo II Omaggio dei
giuristi a Sua Santità a cura di Aldo Loiodice & Massimo
Vari (Roma: Bardi Editore & Libreria Editrice Vaticana
2003)
· ‘What
is to Come after Legal Positivisms are Over?’ in Theorie
des Rechts und der Gesellschaft Festschrift für Werner
Krawietz, ed. Manuel Atienza et al. (Berlin: Duncker &
Humblot 2003)
· ‘Norms
through Parables in the New Testament’ in Time and Law
ed. François Ost et al. (Brussels: Bruylant 1998) [Bibliothèque
de l’Académie Européenne de Théorie du Droit]
· ‘Varieties
of Law and the Rule of Law’ Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
82 (1996) 1
· ‘Do
we have the Right to Judge the Past?’ Rechtstheorie
23 (1992) 3
· ‘Liberty,
Equality, and the Conceptual Minimum of Legal Mediation’ in
Enlightenment, Rights and Revolution ed. Neil MacCormick
et al. (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press 1989)
· ‘Anthropological
Jurisprudence?’ in Law in East and West (Tokyo: Waseda
University Press 1988)
· ‘Law
as History?’ in Philosophy of Law in the History of Human
Thought ed. Stavros Panou et al. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag Wiesbaden 1988) [Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie,
Supplementa 2]
· ‘Reflections
on Law and on its Inner Morality’ Rivista Internazionale
di Filosofia del Diritto LXII (1985) 3 / ‘Reflexiones
arcerca del Derecho y sua Moralidad Interna’ in H. L. Hart
y el Concepto de Derecho = Revista de Ciencias Sociales
(1986)
· ‘Law
as Teleology’ in Rationalisierung der Gesetgebung
Jürgen Rödig Gedächtnissymposion, ed. Heinz Schäffer et al.
(Baden-Baden & Vienna: Nomos & Manz 1984)
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