Centre for Social Sciences Judicial Constraints on Legislation in Central Europe

20/11/2017
The article “How to measure the strength of judicial decisions?” (pdf) by Kálmán Pócza, Gábor Dobos, and Attila Gyulai has been published in the German Law Journal, Volume 18, No. 6. 

18/04/2017
A paper discussing the methodological framework as well as the analysis of initial Hungarian data has been accepted for publication in the German Law Journal. The paper titled “How to measure the strength of judicial decisions?” written by Kálmán Pócza, Gábor Dobos, and Attila Gyulai covers the approach elaborated by the JUDICON project.

17/04/2017
JUDICON organized a panel at this years’ ECPR in the Law and Court section (6-9, September, Oslo). The papers to be presented will cover the Slovakian, the German, the Romanian case, and a time-series cross national analysis. The papers will be presented by Max Steuer (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava), Oliver Lembcke (Institute of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Csongor Kuti (Faculty of Arts, Univeristy of Targu Mures) and Gábor Dobos - Attila Gyulai - Kálmán Pócza (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Political Science).

16/04/2017
Two papers from the project will be presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society of Constitutional Law in Copenhagen (5-7 July, 2017). Max Steuer (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava) will present the Slovakian case, Kálmán Pócza and Gábor Dobos (MTA TK PTI) will discuss the comparative data.

16/04/2017
The first country-specific analyses will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Political Science Association  (9-10, June, Győr) in a panel dedicated to the JUDICON project. The papers to be presented will cover the Slovakian, the German, the Romanian cases and a time-series cross national analysis. The papers will be presented by Max Steuer (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava), Oliver Lembcke (Institute of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Csongor Kuti (Faculty of Arts, Univeristy of Targu Mures) and Gábor Dobos - Attila Gyulai - Kálmán Pócza (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Political Science).

16/04/2017
The closing workshop of the JUDICON project will be held at the end of June, 2017 in Budapest. At the workshop, all country-analyses will be discussed to be finalized as papers to be published in the near future.

05/10/2016
Judicon held the project’s third workshop in Budapest, 30th September 2016. The participants discussed the country specific difficulties of the coding and worked on the interpretation framework of the data presentation.

02/03/2016
Judicon held the project’s second workshop in Budapest, 12th February 2016. The participants compared initial country results and discussed the final coding scheme to be applied in the following phase of the project.

02/03/2016
Judicon held its kick-off meeting in Budapest, 16th October, 2015. The participants discussed the methodology and country-specific issues of the research.

02/03/2016
Preliminary results of the research on the judicial constraints on Hungarian legislation has been presented at the 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal at the Université de Montréal.