István Hoffman

István Hoffman
Download CV Senior Research Fellow (TK JTI)
Research Interests
  • Municipal law and administration
  • Comparative administrative law (especially comparison of the regulation on administrative organisation)
  • Provision of local public services
  • Social law and administration, especially legal regulation on provision of social care services
  • Legal Regulation on Regional Development
Selected Publications
  • István Hoffman – Andrea Szatmári: The Transformation of the Municipal Benefit System in Hungary in the Last Decade. Lex localis – Journal of Local Self-Government 17: 3 (2019) pp. 535-559.
  • István Hoffman: Challenges of the Implementation of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in the Hungarian Legislation. Lex localis – Journal of Local Self-Government 16: 4 (2018) pp. 929-938.
  • István Balázs – István Hoffman: Can (Re)Centralization Be a Modern Governance in Rural Areas? Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences. 13: 1 (2017) pp. 5-20.
  • Hoffman, István: Gondolatok a 21. századi önkormányzati jog fontosabb intézményeiről és modelljeiről: A nyugati demokráciák és Magyarország szabályozásának, valamint azok változásainak tükrében. Budapest, ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2015. p. 297.
  • István Hoffman – Krisztina Rozsnyai: The Supervision of Self-Government Bodies’ Regulation in Hungary. Lex localis – Journal of Local Self-Government 13: 3 (2015), pp. 485-502.
  • István Hoffman: The Changes of the Roles of the Hungarian Counties: Towards a One and a Half-Tier System? Lex localis – Journal of Local Self-Government 12: 3 (2014), pp. 393-415.
  • István Hoffman: Some Thoughts on the Main European Models of the Municipal Health Services. Lex localis – Journal of Local Self-Government 11: 3 (2013), pp. 631-650.
  • Balázs, István – Balogh, Zsolt Péter – Barabás, Gergely – Danka, Ferenc – Fazekas, János – Fazekas, Marianna – F. Rozsnyai, Krisztina – Fürcht, Pál – Hoffman, István – Hoffmanné Németh, Ildikó – Kecső, Gábor – Szalai, Éva (eds. Nagy, Marianna – Hoffman, István): A Magyarország helyi önkormányzatairól szóló törvény magyarázata. Budapest, HVG-Orac 2012. p. 530.
  • István Hoffman – György Könczei: Legal Regulations Relating tot he Passive and Active Legal Capacity of Persons with Intellectual and Psychosological Disabilities in Light of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and the Impending Reform of Hungarian Civil Code. Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 33: 1 (2010), pp. 143-172. 
  • Hoffman, István: Önkormányzati közszolgáltatások szervezése és igazgatása: az elmélet és a gyakorlat tükrében. Budapest, ELTE Eötvös Kiadó 2009. 395. p.
Research Projects
  • NKFIH FK 132517 Restricting the legal capacity of adults in Hungary (2019-2022, research grant: 24.607 Mio. HUF) (principal investigator)
  • NKFIH K 119117 „From Equal Opportunities to Taigetos?” (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. György Könczei, 2014-2017, reseacrh grant: 9,730 Mio. HUF) (senior researcher)
  • OTKA K 101147 „Urban governance in intermediate cities and urban areas” (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Tamás M. Horváth, 2012-2015, research grant: 13,538 Mio. HUF)
  • NKFIH K 112550 „New tendencies of regulationg the Single Market and their effects on the organisation and functioning of public administration” (principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Marianna Nagy, 2015-2018, research grant: 9,016 Mio. HUF) (researcher)