Experience with Teaching Comparative Jurisprudence in Hungary

A Report to The International Round Table on Teaching Comparative Jurisprudence (Irpin/Kyiv/Ukraine, January 18, 2013)

7 Pages Posted: 1 Feb 2014 Last revised: 3 Feb 2014

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Csaba Varga

Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Legal Studies; Pázmány Péter Catholic University Department of Legal Philosophy

Date Written: January 1, 2014

Abstract

Historical comparison is preconditional to understanding in social sciences. Legal science can qualify as such only provided if its subject is investigated universally as a phenomenon. The law as subject is a complex entity, composed of posited texts and canonised reasoning with them as well. Henceforth both comparative law and comparative legal cultures need to be cultivated and also taught. Experiences with teaching them are rather positive both in introducing students to their encounter with law and in synthesising their studies.

Keywords: universality, particularity, law as text, reasoning, domestic law as exemplification, legal mentality

JEL Classification: I29, K00

Suggested Citation

Varga, Csaba, Experience with Teaching Comparative Jurisprudence in Hungary (January 1, 2014). A Report to The International Round Table on Teaching Comparative Jurisprudence (Irpin/Kyiv/Ukraine, January 18, 2013), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2388647 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2388647

Csaba Varga (Contact Author)

Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Legal Studies ( email )

Budapest
Hungary

Pázmány Péter Catholic University Department of Legal Philosophy ( email )

Szentkirályi u. 28
Budapest, 1088
Hungary

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