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6Jog és filozófia: antológia a század első felének polgári jogelméleti irodalma köréből (edited book)Akadémia Kiadó. 1981.
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4Algunas cuestiones metodológicas de la formación de los conceptos en ciencias jurídicasInstituto de Filosofía del Derecho LUZ, Facultad de Derecho. 1982.Includes bibliographical references.
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5Jogi elméletek, jogi kultúrák: kritikák, ismertetések a jogfilozófia és az összehasonlító jog köréből[ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar]. 1994.
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Etudes en philosophie du droit =Projet sur des cultures juridiques comparées de la Faculté de droit de l'Université Loránd Eötvös. 1994.
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9Jog és filozófia: antológia a század első felének kontinentális jogi gondolkodása köréből (edited book)Osiris. 1998.Classical texts of continental legal theorising in Hungarian translation: RUDOLF VON JHERING: Kampf ums Recht [1872] / EUGEN EHRLICH: Freie Rechtsfindung und freie Rechtswissenschaft [1903] / HERMANN KANTOROWICZ: Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft [1906] / RUDOLF STAMMLER: Richtiges Recht [1908] & excerpts from his Theorie der Rechtswissenschaft [1911/1923] & Richtiges Recht [1921] / FRANÇOIS GÉNY: Science et technique en droit privé positif [1924: excerpts] / GUSTAV RADBRUCH: Rechtsphilosophie…Read more
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7The paradigms of legal thinkingSzent István Társulat. 2012.La 4e de couverture indique : "The author introduces the reader to reasoning in law through the possilities, boundaries and traps of assuming personal responsibility and impersonal pattern adoption that have arisen in the history of human thought and in the various legal cultures. He discloses actual processes hidden by the veil of patterns followed in thinking, processes that we encounter both in our conceptual-logical quests for certainties and in the undertaking of fertilising ambiguity. When…Read more
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4‘Judicial mind’ in operation, considered differently in Civil Law and in Common Law, is taken as a ‘black-box’ with the ‘magic’ role played by legal technicalities, in which manipulation with facts and rules transubstantiates problem solving into justification.
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170Aus Dem Nachlass von Julius Moór Gyula Hagyatékából (edited book)ELTE “Comparative Legal Cultures” Project. 1995.Fac simile of documents [mostly letters & dedications] from & to FELIX SOMLÓ (1873–1918) (including by Leonidas Pitamic and Adolf Merkl, among others) & JULIUS MOÓR (1888–1950) (including by M. Stockhammer, Wilhelm Sauer, Karl Petraschek, among others), followed by HANS KELSEN’s Selbstbiographie [February 1927] (15–22 w/ letter, 23) & ILMAR TAMMELO’s only surviving copy of his PhD thesis in his own translation on Kritik zu Prof. Kliimann’s normativistischer Unterscheidung des Privat- und des öff…Read more
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Rule of law. Between the scylla of imported patterns and the charybdis of actual realisations (the experience of Lithuania)Rechtstheorie 37 (3): 349-359. 2006.
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1Legal traditions? In search for families and cultures of lawIn Josep J. Moreso (ed.), Legal Theory: Legal Positivism and Conceptual Analysis: Proceedings of the 22nd Ivr World Congress, Granada 2005, Volume I = Teoría Del Derecho: Positivismo Jurídico y Análisis Conceptual, Franz Steiner Verlag. 2007.
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1History (Historicity) of LawIn Christopher B. Gray (ed.), The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, Garland. pp. 371--373. 1999.
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3866Disciplinary issues -- Field studies -- Appendix: Theory of law : legal ethnography, or, the theoretical fruits of the inquiries into folkways. /// Reedition of papers in English spanning from 1995 to 2008 /// DISCIPLINARY ISSUES -- LAW AS CULTURE? [2002] 9–14 // TRENDS IN COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDIES [2002] 15–17 // COMPARATIVE LEGAL CULTURES: ATTEMPTS AT CONCEPTUALISATION [1997] 19–28: 1. Legal Culture in a Cultural-anthropological Approach 19 / 2. Legal Culture in a Sociological Approach 21…Read more
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4The ‘Hart-Phenomenon’Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 91 (1): 83-95. 2005.The ‘Hart-miracle’, then the ‘Hart-phenomenon’ are analysed through surveying (1) the state of legal philosophising in England preceding Hart, (2) his professional career and (3) the early British reception of his work, including (4) the kinds of criticism as to its methodology and presuppositions as well as (5) its becoming a master type of jurisprudence with Oxford as a centre. Taking it as a mainstream, the continental tradition of encouragement to productive thinking characteristic even of K…Read more
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15Philosophical Foundation and Constitutional Rejection in HungaryHistory of Communism in Europe 4 22-43. 2013.There are internationally set criteria that apply in the case of a legacy of grave and systematic violations of human rights, generating obligations of the state towards the victims and society. They specify: a right of the victim to see justice done, a right to know the truth, an entitlement to compensation and nonmonetary forms of restitution, as well as a right to reorganized and accountable institutions. Facing the complete failure of implementing the first three points, one can claim that n…Read more
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6Legal Ontology (Metaphysics)In Christopher B. Gray (ed.), The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, Garland. pp. 617--619. 1999.
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Etudes en philosophie du droit =Projet sur des cultures juridiques comparées de la Faculté de droit de l'Université Loránd Eötvös. 1994.
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18The ‘Hart-Phenomenon’Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 91 (1): 83-95. 2005.The ‘Hart-miracle’, then the ‘Hart-phenomenon’ are analysed through surveying (1) the state of legal philosophising in England preceding Hart, (2) his professional career and (3) the early British reception of his work, including (4) the kinds of criticism as to its methodology and presuppositions as well as (5) its becoming a master type of jurisprudence with Oxford as a centre. Taking it as a mainstream, the continental tradition of encouragement to productive thinking characteristic even of K…Read more
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15Marxian Legal Theory (edited book)Dartmouth; New York University Press. 1993.{texts from Western & Eastern Marxism} Introduction xiii–xxvii; ORIGINS L. S. MAMUT ‘Questions of Law in Marx’s Capital’ [1968] 3–10, PETER SCHÖTTLER ‘Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky as Critics of »Legal Socialism«’ [1986] 11–42, WILLIAM LEON MCBRIDE ‘The Concept of Justice in Marx, Engels, and Others’ [1975] 43–57; BOUNDARIES WILLIAM LEON MCBRIDE ‘Marxism and Natural Law’ [1970] 61–87, ZDRAVKO GREBO ‘»Kelsenism« and Marxism’ [1985] 89–107, KÁLMÁN KULCSÁR ‘The Historical Concept in the Science…Read more
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4Jogi elméletek, jogi kultúrák: kritikák, ismertetések a jogfilozófia és az összehasonlító jog köréből[ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar]. 1994.
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5155Reedition of papers in English spanning from 1986 to 2009 /// Historical background -- An imposed legacy -- Twentieth century contemporaneity -- Appendix: The philosophy of teaching legal philosophy in Hungary /// HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- PHILOSOPHY OF LAW IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE: A SKETCH OF HISTORY [1999] 11–21 // PHILOSOPHISING ON LAW IN THE TURMOIL OF COMMUNIST TAKEOVER IN HUNGARY (TWO PORTRAITS, INTERWAR AND POSTWAR: JULIUS MOÓR & ISTVÁN LOSONCZY) [2001–2002] 23–39: Julius Moór 23 / Is…Read more
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The philosophy of the construction and operation of european lawRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 88 (3): 313-344. 2011.
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948Rechtsphilosophische Aufsätze (edited book)Budapest: ELTE “Comparative Legal Cultures” Project. 1994.Photomechanical reprint of papers & review articles from 1974 to 1992 mostly in German, some in Swedish or Danish: AUFSÄTZE ‘Beiträge zu den Beziehungen zwischen Gustav Radbruch & Georg Lukács’ [1979] / ‘Die Entwicklung des rechtstheoretischen Denkens in der Ungarischen Räterepublik’ [1969] / ‘Die Kodifikation & ihr Verfall in der Entwicklungsgeschichte der bürgerlichen Demokratie’ [1978] / ‘Rationalitet och rättens objektifiering’ [1975] / ‘Utopi og Kodifikation’ [1976] / ‘Historisches Wesen & …Read more
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1Lectures on the Paradigms of Legal ThinkingAkademiai Kiads. 1999.Legal philosopher Varga introduces readers to reasoning in law by leading them through the possibilities, boundaries, and traps of assuming personal responsibility and impersonal pattern adoption that have arisen in the history of human thought and in the various legal cultures. He seeks to reveal the actual processed hidden by the veil of patterns that are followed in thinking, processed that people encounter both in conceptual-logical quests for certainties and in the undertaking of fertilizin…Read more
Csaba Varga
Pazmany Peter Catholic University Of Hungary
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Pazmany Peter Catholic University Of HungaryFaculty Of LawDistinguished Professor
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