Professor profile
Introduction
Zoltán J. Tóth is Professor and Head of Department of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University in Budapest. He also serves as chief consultant to the Constitutional Court of Hungary. Previously, his main research topic was capital punishment; he currently studies the theoretical and practical aspects of constitutional adjudication, and issues of statutory and constitutional reasoning. He has published fifteen books as author or co-author, the latest being the monograph Changing Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty: Hungary’s Renewed Support for Capital Punishment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
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He is vice president of the Hungarian Association of Law and Political Sciences, and a member of the Scientific Council of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network.
- Research group: Symbols
Prof. Dr. Zoltán Tóth J.
More about work
He was head and member of the research group ‘The interpretation of fundamental rights in Europe’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2021. He was head and member of the research group ‘Constitutional protection of national symbols’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2022.
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He is member of the editorial board of the following scientific journal(s) of the CEA Publishing: (a) Law, Identity and Values. He is editor and author in the following books of the CEA Publishing: (a) Constitutional Reasoning and Constitutional Interpretation (2021), (b) Constitutional and Legal Protection of State and National Symbols in Central Europe (2022). He is author of scientific articles published in the following scientific journal(s) of the CEA Publishing: (a) Law, Identity and Values, (b) Central European Journal of Comparative Law.
Book chapters
Interpretation of Fundamental Rightsin Central and Eastern Europe: Methodology and Summary
Conference presentations
Z. Tóth J. – On the Concept of Sovereignty
Z. Tóth J. – Constitutional Adjudication in Central Europe
Z. J.Tóth – Constitutional protection of state symbols in Europe
Z. J. Tóth: Constitutional Reasoning in Central Europe: Lessons from an Empirical Study on Selected Central European Countries (Common Features and Differences)
Other results
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