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Csaba Varga

National Coordinator for Hungary

 
 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 Born in 1941; graduated at Pécs in law in 1965; education continued at the Faculté internationale pour l’Enseignement du Droit Comparé in sessions at Strasbourg (1968), Amsterdam (1969) & Perugia (1970); with scientific qualification CSc (1976) & DSc (1991) awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

A researcher of the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences [H–1250 Budapest, P. O. Box 25] from 1965 on, since 1991 as Scientific Adviser

A part time staff of the Loránd Eötvös University Faculty of Law between 1982–2002, since 1992 as professor

A founding professor of Péter Pázmány Catholic University Faculty of Law (1995–), the founding director of its Institute for Legal Philosophy (1995–) [H–1428 Budapest 8, P. O. Box 6; +361-42-97-230, secr. -227, -229, fax +361-42-97-226; varga@jak.ppke.hu ]

 

The founding secretary of the Hungarian National Branch of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy [IVR: Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie] (1975–); a founding professor of the European Academy of Legal Theory [Brussels] (1991); an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law [Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé] (2002–)

 

A founding board member of the journals Current Legal Theory [Leuven] (1984–98), Ratio Juris [Bologna/Oxford] (1986–), Magyar Szemle [Hungarian Review, a conservative journal, Budapest] (1992–2003) and Legal Theory [Cambridge, Mass. & New Haven, Conn.] (1993–99); board member of Világosság [Clarity, a philosophical journal, Budapest] (2003–)

Founding editor of the series Jogfilozófiák / Philosophiae Iuris with a subseries of Excerpta Historica Philosophiae Hungaricae Iuris

Project director of TEMPUS projects frameworking in 25 EU & 5 H universities in 1990–93 & 1995–98

 

A political adviser of the Prime Minister of Hungary (1990–1994); a member of Justitia et Pax / Hungary (2002–)

 

Guest professorship at the University of Lund Institute for Sociology (1977), the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences History of Ideas Unit [Canberra] (1987), the Waseda University Institute for Comparative Law [Tokyo] (1987), the Yale Law School (with ACLS scholarship) [New Haven, Conn.] (1988–1989), the University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (1989 & 1997), the University of Münster Faculty of Law Department for Legal Sociology (1992), the University of Stockholm Juridicum (2004)

with guest lectures at Aarhus (1978), Alicante (1998), Hampshire [Amherst, Mass.] (1989), Berlin/West (FreeU. 1986), Bologna (1983 & 84), Brussels (EurAcadLegTheory 1993), Canberra (ANU HistIdeas & Law 1987), Copenhagen (1978 & 83); Duke [Durham, NC] (Phil 1988), Florence (1984) & NewFlorence (InstLegCybern 1984), Hartford [Conn.] (1989), Cornell [Ithaca, NY] (1989), Lisbon (AutonomU & HighInstLabour/Sociology 1995), Lund (Sociol 1977 & 83) & (InstLegSociol 1983), Maastricht (Limburg 1991), Münster (1990 & 92); Yale Law [New Haven, Conn. 1989), Paris II (CentreLegPhil 1976 & 77), Perugia (1983), Columbia (program at Ráckeve 1992), Riga (1997), Rome (“La Sapienza” InstLegPhil 1983 & 84 & 85), Washington [St. Louis, Miss. 1989), Stockholm (2004), Sydney (Law & Soc’yLegPhil 1987), New South Wales [Sydney] (1987), Waseda [Tokyo] (InstCompLaw 1987), Warsaw (CentrEurU 1991) & (InstLegStud PolishAcadSc 1996 & 98) & (ULaw&Econ 1999), Vilnius (LawU. 2004)

 

Participation at IVR World Congresses on Philosophy of Law w/lectures: III (Brussels 1971), IV (Madrid 1973), V (Sydney/Canberra 1977), IX (Basel 1979), X (Mexico 1981), extraord. (Lund 1983), XI (Helsinki 1983), extraord. (Bologna 1983), XII (Athens 1985), extraord. (Reykjavík 1986), XIII (Kobe 1987), XIV (Edinburgh 1989), XV (Göttingen 1991), XVI (Reykjavík 1993), XVII (Bologna 1995), XIX (New York 1999), XX (Amsterdam 2001), XXI (Lund 2003), XXII (Granada 2005), including

co-organisation of IVR bilateral symposia w/lectures: Austrian–Hungarian (Graz/Leibnitz 1983 & Balatonkenese 1985 & Graz/Leibnitz 1990) & Finnish–Hungarian (Helsinki 1990), as well as

participation at IVR Executive Meeting in the GDR w/lecture (Weimar 1986)

 

Participation w/lectures at int’l conferences of: ACLS at LatinAmCompConstit Uruguay (Punta del Este 1988); AdenauerFound (on Eurlegpolicy Brussels 1991 & transitjustice Budapest 1992); Antwerpen (eurlegpolicy 1992); AristotleU. [Saloniki] (21stcentlaw 1993); Berlin[East]LegTheorDays (on law’s efficacity 1977 & formation 1980 & systemicity 1982 & application 1987 & security 1989); CentrEurU. [Prague] (on transitjustice 1993); Connecticut & LorándEötvösU. (on transit Budapest 1992); CritLegStud (8th EurConf Budapest 1989 & BritJubilConf Oxford with invited plenary speech 1993); ErasmusSemLegTh [Brussels] II (1990), III (1991), IV (1992), (1998); EötvösLorándU. [Budapest] (on legpolicy Pilisszentkereszt 1984); EurAcadLegTh [Brussels] (on time&law 1998 & eurcomplaw 2002); EurParliament (EuDemFraction Weimar 1991); EurUInst [Florence/Fiesole] (East–West round tables on legdevelopm 1985 & legthought 1987); FIDESz (British–HungSymp on rulelaw Budapest 1990); Florence (InstLegCybern on legformalism 1993); GDRLawyers’Ass (jubilee Babelsberg 1982); Gramsci-Inst [Rome] (on Lukács 1985); InstEur&Int’lStud [Luxemburg] (on vitalitynations Prague 1991); InstLegStud BulgarAcadSc (on divisionpowers Varna 1983 & legfunctions Varna 1985); InstLegStud HungAcadSc [Budapest] (on transitjustice 1991); InstLegStud PolishAcadSc [Warsaw] (on legisl 1974); InstLegStud SlovakAcadSc [Bratislava] (on rulelaw Smolićany 1991); InstLegStud SovietAcadSc [Moscow] multilatco-op on historicapproach (Berlin[East] 1983, Prague 1984, Moscow 1985, Budapest 1985, Potsdam 1986, Moscow 1987, Varna 1989, Budapest 1990); InstTheorState&Law GDRAcadSc [Berlin/East] (on democracy 1977 & formstate Neubrandenburg 1979); Int’lSoc’ySemiotLaw (Edinburgh 1989 & Reykjavík 1993); Int’lInstScOfMan [Vienna] (CentrEurForum Vienna 1991 & Cracow 1991); Int’lInstSociolLaw [Ońati] (on critlegstud 1994 & postcomm 1994 & complegcult 1996 & lawsperspect21stcent 2004); Int’lSociolAss ResCommLegSociol (Balatonszéplak 1976); Int’sSympLegInform [Salzburg] (on leglogic 2004 & rule/norm 2005); Jena (legaxiol 1981); KörberFound (96thBergedorf on eurunif Tallinn 1992); Law&Semiot (3rd round table at Pennsylvania, Reading, 1989); Law&Soc’y (25th y’meeting at Wisconsin, Mad. 1989); Limburg [Maastricht] (on eurlegedu 1991); Lund (InstLegSociol NordicForumLegSociol invited plenary speech 1995); Nagoya (on transitrulelaw Nagoya 2003 & Budapest 2004); Oxford (on 3rd genhumanrights 1987); SerbianAcadSc&Arts & InstLegStud HungAcadSc legmethod symposia (on foundations Belgrade 1984 & legaxiol Budapest 1986 & modernisation Belgrade 1988 & legphil Budapest 1990); Turku (on legal doctrine 1983 & humanrights 1990); Vilnius LawU. (on globalism with invited opening speech 2003 & on antiterrorism 2004); York [Montabello, Que.] (civilcontrolonmilitary 1992); PhilosSocTurkey Ankara (on law’s perspectives 2006), including

organisation of Int’lInstSociolLaw [Ońati] workshop w/lecture on autopoiesis (1991) & transitrulelaw (1993); of TEMPUS CompLegCult Project symposia on transitrulelaw (Pécs 1997) & legmethod (Miskolc 1998)

 

Participation w/lectures at nat’l conferences of: ACLS (on Hungconstitutionalism Budapest 1992 & 1993); BatthyányCircleProfessors [Budapest] (introductory speech on rulelaw 1999); BatthyányFound [Budapest] (on nat’lselfdispos Dobogókő 1992 & minorities Szentendre 1992); BibóCollege of EötvösLorándU. [Budapest] (on legedu 1991 & civildisobed 1991); EötvösLorándU. [Budapest] (on transitjustice 1990) & (on constitutionalism 1993) & (on BarnaHorváth 1993 & legedu 1995) & (closing on Hart 2001 & CarlSchmitt 2002 & closing Kelsen 2005); HungAcadSc PhilosophSection (on legality 1993); HungLawyers’Ass CommLegTheor [Budapest] (invited on formationconcepts 1968 & law’sdefinition 1969 & Lukács 1979 & LadislasSzalay 1983); InstLegStud HungAcadSc [Budapest] (ScienceDay invited speech 1997 & 2001); Justitita&Pax/H [Budapest] (on corruption 1999); JusticeMinistry Criminalists’Club (on limitationspassed 1991); Kolping/H (invited speech on rulelaw 2002); LakitelekFound. (invited speech on rulelaw Budapest 2000); MiskolcU. (on constitutjudiciary 1992) & (on positivism 2000 & rule/norm 2003); OCIPE [Budapest] (on econmorals 1999); PázmányPéterU. [Budapest] (on JánosZlinszky 1998 & complaw 2002); PécsU. (on effectsRomanlaw 1987 & partystate 1989) & (introductory speech on IstvánLosonczy at MedicSchool 2002 & Law 2002); Reformated College [Debrecen] (on Christian response 1992), including

organisation of nat’l workshop w/introductory speech on the legal marxism of socialism in Hungary in a Central European perspective (Budapest 2003)

 

 
     
     

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