Professional paper
The Teaching of Legal History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1635–2013)
Gergely Gosztonyi
; Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
The paper gives an overview of the development of teaching legal history at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest from its establishment until today. First part presents establishment of the University, second part gives a review of the development of the Faculty of Law and of the Department of the History of Hungarian law while the third part presents the Department today, its members and their research profiles and interests. At the end, the author stresses proclamation of historical interpretation of the new Hungarian Constitution in its preamble as a source of possible practical challenges that could appear before Hungarian legal historians and the Department of the History of Hungarian Law at ELTE.
Keywords
legal history; Department of the History of Hungarian law; Eötvös Loránd University
Hrčak ID:
116247
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2013.
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