Populism and Law Workshop – Introducing the Special Issue “The Effects of Populist Governance on the Hungarian Legal System” of the Review of Central and East European Law

   2022. március 17. 10:00 - 2022. március 17. 12:30

 

Populism and Law Workshop – Introducing the Special Issue “The Effects of Populist Governance on the Hungarian Legal System” of the Review of Central and East European Law

 

The Review of Central and East European Law has just published its latest Special Issue on “The Effects of Populist Governance on the Hungarian Legal System” edited by Tamás Hoffmann and Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz. The contributors to this issue are all researchers at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences, who have analyzed in their articles the impact of populism on specific branches of Hungarian law. All the articles are accessible open access at

https://brill.com/view/journals/rela/47/1/rela.47.issue-1.xml

 

10.00-10.10       Tamás Hoffmann: Introduction of the Special Issue

10.10-10.30       Tímea Drinóczi: Methodological issues of researching the impact of populism on the legal system

10.30-10.45       Zoltán Szente: Constitutional Changes in Populist Times

10.45-11.00       Mátyás Bencze: ’Everyday Judicial Populism’ in Hungary

11.00-11.15       Márton Varju: Sectoral Special Taxes in Hungary as Instruments of a Populist Fiscal Policy

11.15-11.30       Tamás Hoffmann: Illegal Legality and the Facade of Good Faith – Migration and Law in Populist Hungary

11.30-1145        Miklós Hollán: Two Decades of Penal Populism – The Case of Hungary

11.45-12.00       Attila Bartha and Zsolt Boda: Populism, Law and Politics. Another Perspective of Policy Making

12.00-12.30       Q & A

Hybrid format: at the Institute for Legal Studies (Tóth Kálmán utca 4, 1097 Budapest, T.0.25.) and online. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88150214543?pwd=UXZvTGFDazhqcWNTRlRqR1RBYTErZz09
Passcode: 030567

The event and the Special Issue were supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 822590, Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe, and K-29245 program on Populism in the policy and law making funded by the National Research Development and Innovation Office.