Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.71.1.01
Remarks on István Szászy (1899-1976), on the General Part of Hungarian Civil Law and the Role of the Comparative Method in Private Law
Emőd Veress
orcid.org/0000-0003-2769-5343
; Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abstract
István Szászy was one of the most versatile creators of Hungarian legal thinking. We remember him primarily as a scholar of international private law, but he also published many high-quality private law works before 1949. In 1949, István Szászy's career as a private lawyer was interrupted for political reasons in the context of Soviet-type dictatorship. His person has been partially ignored by history, while his work as a private lawyer has been disregarded altogether. Therefore, it is worth examining the reasons for the disregard he has been shown and determining whether the oeuvre's private law program is worth re-acknowledging, rehabilitating, and completing. In order to do so, we must discuss the general part of Hungarian civil law and the comparative method’s incidence, as the importance of this issue extends beyond Szászy’s work.
Keywords
István Szászy; Hungarian civil law; general part of civil law; comparative law; Soviet law
Hrčak ID:
258414
URI
Publication date:
31.5.2021.
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