Faculty of Law

The aim of the study program is to educate lawyers having practical and theoretical knowledge to be informed at a higher level on the European and international economic law, on the functioning of the European Union and on the regulatory complexity of the economic relations outside the European Union. Students will be able to apply proper regulators while facing economic cases having cross border elements. The study programme offers the opportunity to move to doctorate study at the Doctorate School of the Faculty of Law.

The Central European Academy is offering a special scholarship (CEA Scholarship) for this course.

The LL.M. in International and Comparative Children’s Rights of the University of Miskolc (ICCR LL.M.) aims to provide a complex and interdisciplinary knowledge of children’s rights and an approach that enables participating lawyers to carry out their theoretical or practical work with a deep and real understanding of children’s rights, regardless of their professional background. The training curriculum will include the basics of social and personal development, as well as child-friendly communication skills that can help to develop a truly child-sensitive approach to children’s rights. The programme also provides a detailed and in-depth knowledge of the universal and regional international legal background on children’s rights, and presents the full regulatory background on children, both public and private, through a comparative legal perspective in Central Europe. 

The Central European Academy is offering a special scholarship (CEA Scholarship) for this course.

The LL.M. in Human Rights and Rule of Law of the University of Miskolc (ICCR LL.M.) aims to provide participants with a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of human rights and the rule of law, with a special focus on the specificities of Central and Eastern Europe. The course will provide students with an introduction to the main philosophical, doctrinal and institutional features of universal and regional human rights protection, followed by a detailed study of the framework provided by the UN and the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as the legal possibilities of the European Union in this field. The course will also aim to present human rights issues, interpretations and good practices in Central and Eastern Europe, and to systematise and analyse international case law from a comparative law perspective, and on this basis outline the main trends. The course will also cover the transnational development of the concepts of the rule of law and constitutional identity, and last but not least the frontier areas of human rights (international environmental law, protection of vulnerable groups, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international refugee law). 

The Doctoral School is pleased to announce a new four-year-long English-language PhD programme called Central European Comparative Law. The high professional background of the programme is provided by a recognised international teaching staff in the Central European region.

• The Faculty operates a Legal Advice and Legal Clinic Centre to provide its services, to organise cooperation with public, economic and non-governmental organisations, and to carry out legal advocacy and legal assistance tasks.

The mission of the Research Centre for Natural and Human Resources Law is

• to organise research on sociological, ethical, historical and jurisprudential issues in the fields of law covering its field of activity;
• to promote the complex study of the interrelationships between the various branches of law in its target area by developing new basic concepts, legal instruments for integration and new methods; 
• to organise, manage and support interdisciplinary research programmes that integrate sustainable economic, social and environmental processes with those of other disciplines. 

The Research Centre’s mission is

• to organise research on sociological, psychological, historical, ethical and jurisprudential issues in the fields of law covering its target area,
• to promote the dissemination of alternative conflict management and dispute resolution techniques and procedures, both in education and in practice, 
• to support the development of social, interpersonal and intercultural competences and skills,
• to organise, manage and support all interdisciplinary research programmes that allow for interdisciplinary transferability and the use of results from frontier disciplines,  
• to contribute to the development of new educational structures and themes to meet the needs of the national and international labour market, 
• to promote transversal competences, motivation and learning programmes that foster sustainable development and active citizenship, 
• to promote empowerment and equal opportunities for vulnerable people and social groups,
• to provide students with theoretical knowledge of research areas, while developing cognitive skills and personality, and to shape work-related skills and attitudes. 

The mission of the European and International Centre for Criminal Law Research is

• to organise research in the field of law covering the target area on European Union cooperation in criminal law, European criminal law, the protection of the financial interests of the European Union and jurisprudential issues of international criminal law;
• to promote a complex analysis of the relations between the various branches of law in its target area by developing new basic concepts and new methods for the development of legal instruments to support European criminal integration and international criminal law;
• to organise, manage and support interdisciplinary research programmes which integrate the results and efforts of other disciplines; 
• to organise conferences, workshops, publications (conference proceedings, volumes of studies) and prepare for publication in the field of the objective.

The Research Centre’s mission is

• to promote the development of traditional Hungarian civil law doctrine in a changed social, economic and societal environment, especially with regard to the unifying European private law;
• to support the development of Hungarian private law rules in harmony with the development of the unifying European private law and the private law of the European Union, while preserving as far as possible the uniquely Hungarian civil law doctrinal solutions based on the old Hungarian private law traditions;
• to organise, guide and support all interdisciplinary programmes for the complex research of social phenomena, exploring other effective means of social organisation and dispute resolution beyond private law and their relation to law;
• to organise research on sociological, psychological, historical, ethical and jurisprudential issues in the fields of law covering its target area; 
• to explore the causes and solutions of legal overregulation in the field of private law.  
• to increase the knowledge of contract law, particularly at regional level, among economic operators at home and abroad, thereby reducing their vulnerability and increasing their advocacy skills and equal opportunities; 
• to convey to students the theoretical knowledge of the research areas, to reveal the contradictions, difficulties and practical problems between modern Hungarian civil law and the harmonisation of European private law;
• to promote practice-oriented training.

The mission of the Centre for the Study of the State is

• to promote research in the field of political science in the areas of history, sociology, dogmatics, law, in particular in the fields of fundamental rights, public administration and public administration,
• to organise and manage interdisciplinary research programmes which allow for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and the use of the results of frontier sciences, responding in an innovative way to emerging problems in the field of state affairs, while preserving the roots of state affairs that can be traced back several centuries and adapting them to the present day, 
• to organise conferences, workshops, publications and present research results to the wider public in the context of the life sciences, through science-promotion events and publications, 
• to collaborate with academic bodies, bodies and practitioners in the field of public policy, 
• to disseminate to students theoretical and practical knowledge of research areas, and support the involvement of students in scientific research and in solving practical problems, 
• to promote practice-oriented training using modern technologies.

The Research Centre’s mission is

• to promote the development of the traditional Hungarian public finance law doctrine in the light of the changed social, economic and social environment;
• to promote research in the field of public law on historical, sociological and doctrinal legal issues, in particular in the areas of financial law, tax law, international tax law, European tax law, banking law, international law, public administration law and constitutional law;
• to organise and support all interdisciplinary research programmes in the fields of law covered by its field of activity, integrating the results and efforts of other disciplines; 
• to promote the complex study of legal questions and legal relationships involving several branches of law in its field of activity, the establishment of new basic concepts and the introduction of new methods; 
• to promote complex research into social phenomena; 
• to support the development of Hungarian public law and financial law rules in line with European harmonisation efforts, while preserving, as far as possible, the specific Hungarian public law doctrinal solutions;
• to identify the causes of legal over-regulation in the field of financial law and recommend solutions to problem areas;
• to convey to the students the theoretical knowledge of the research areas, reveal the contradictions, difficulties and practical problems between the harmonisation of Hungarian and European public law;
• to promote practice-oriented training;
• to organise conferences, workshops, publications, publication preparation (if applicable) related to the target area.