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The institution of a constitutional dialogue between national (including the constitutional courts) and international courts (including the Court of Justice of the European Union) is becoming increasingly important. A brand new legal provision of the Hungarian Act on the Constitutional Court, in force since 2023, creates the possibility for the CJEU to request the legal opinion of the Hungarian Constitutional… Tovább

The study explores the difficulties of defining national minority, with a particular focus on the difference between the free assumption of identity and the free choice of identity, and the problems that arise from these. From a methodological point of view, the study puts a strong emphasis on a comparative legal approach, and in line with this, examines the regulatory (and where possible, enforcement) … Tovább

Hungary has been a member of the European Union, the great community of European peoples, for twenty years. During the two decades of our membership, the world we live in has changed completely, so perhaps more than ever, the cooperation of European peoples is more important. Many believe that the continuous deepening of European integration is the key to this cooperation. In this context, the role of the common… Tovább

Shortening the dying process of people suffering from serious, incurable illnesses at their request or assisting their suicide raises significant legal questions, in addition to ethical, philosophical, religious, and medical issues, which have been answered differently by European constitutional courts in recent years. The European Court of Human Rights, in its judgment in the case of Dániel Karsai… Tovább

This Article seeks to put into light the constitutional protection of the “right to a name”. As a first step, the research examines if the texts of constitutions/human rights documents have explicit references to the protection of the right to a name. After the textual evaluation, the Article focuses on the relevant case-law of constitutional courts. Based on the decisions of the Constitutional Court of … Tovább

The right to a fair trial includes the right to a lawful judge. The essence of the constitutional content of the right to a lawful judge is that the constitutional assignment of a judge to a case can only be made on objective grounds by applying predetermined, general rules. In order to determine who can be considered a lawful judge in a particular case, the provisions of the procedural law in question relating … Tovább