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dr iur, MSc, LLM, PhD, dr habil, FHEA
Personal Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- peter.cserne@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Taylor Building Room C32
King's College
Aberdeen
Scotland
AB24 3UB
United Kingdom
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Péter Cserne joined the University of Aberdeen as a reader in law in June 2020. He was promoted to Personal Chair with effect from August 2022.
He is the Law School's Director of Postgraduate Research.
A lawyer and economist by training, he has published widely on jurisprudence, comparative law, contract law and the history of legal and political thought.
Péter earned his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has held visiting positions at Columbia, Oxford, Toronto, and Genoa Universities, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law. In 2022 he was a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study. He is an Extramural Fellow of Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) and the founder and convener of MetaLawEcon, an international academic network for research on the foundations of Law & Economics.
Before joining Aberdeen, Péter taught at Northumbria and Hull Universities in England, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary.
Qualifications
- PhD Law2008 - University of Hamburg
- Dr habil Law2016 - University of DebrecenHabilitation or venia legendi is a post-doctoral qualification required for a professorship.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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member of University Postgraduate Research Committee
chair of Law School Postgraduate Research Policy Committee
member of Law School Research Committee
member of Law School Education Committee
- External Memberships
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- extramural fellow, Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC)
- founder and convenor, MetaLawEcon research network
- co-convenor, Juris North Legal and Political Philosophy Discussion Group
- member of the advisory board, Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists
- co-editor, Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theory Yearbooks (Peter Lang)
- member of Editorial Board, Economics Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship (Springer)
- member of International Advisory Board, On Ethics and Economics (Rowman&Littlefield)
- member of Editorial Board, Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies – Acta Juridica Hungarica
Prizes and Awards
Best thesis award, European Master in Law and Economics, 2004
- Research
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Research Overview
- jurisprudence
- law and economics
- contract law from comparative, philosophical and economic perspectives
- private law theory
- history of political and legal thought, especially Max Weber and Central and Eastern Europe
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Law.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Economics
Research Specialisms
- Comparative Law
- Private Law
- Jurisprudence
- Intellectual History
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
- nudging and behavioural interventions as regulatory techniques
- new technologies and algorithms as objects and alternatives of regulation by law
Collaborations
2010– MetaLawEcon research network (founder and convenor, with F Esposito, A Stojanovic, F Figueroa Zimmermann)
2015–9 Law and style: Conceptualising ‘style’ in law and legal scholarship, with Viktor LÅ‘rincz and Miklós Könczöl (Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2016–8 Sustainable consumption: Information regulation, consumer democracy, and the rule of law, with Jörn Reinhardt (University of Bremen)
2009–12 Convergence and Divergence of National Legal Systems: coping with the challenges of globalization, project leader Pierre Larouche (Tilburg University), funded by The Hague Institute for Internationalisation of Law
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Law.
Past PhD supervision
David Bull: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Standard Form Contracts in Business Transactions, University Hull (2019)
Jan Broulík: Economics in Legal Decision-Making, Tilburg University, Netherlands (2017)
Funding and Grants
- 30.000€ Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study, 6 months funded research fellowship and teaching buyout, Jan to June 2022
- 3480€ Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (with Hans-Bernd Schäfer) for international conference on “Economics and Philosophy in Private Law Theory”, 5–6 July 2019
- 3250€ European University Institute (EUI), Florence (with Fabrizio Esposito) for international conference on “Economic Law and Economic Theory: Defining the Domain of “Law and Economics”, 12–13 December 2018
- 5000€ University of Hamburg “Competence Centre Sustainable University” (with Jörn Reinhardt) for international conference on “Sustainable consumption: Information regulation, consumer behaviour, and the rule of law”, 7–8 September 2017
- 4500€ University of Amsterdam, Paul Scholten Centre and Centre for Law and Economics (with Bas Schotel) for international conference on “Law and coercion: the role of public and private enforcement in law”, 10–11 December 2015
- 1.600.000 HUF stipend for 4 months visiting fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Oct 2015– Jan 2016
- € 7500 ZiF (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, competitive grant for conference organization, 2012
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
Teaching Responsibilities
Course coordinator:
- LS2536 Introduction to Comparative Law
- LS2540 Comparative Law II: The Romano-Germanic Tradition
- LS552K Comparative Contract Law for International Transactions
- LS50R1 Advanced Research Skills for Postgraduate Researchers
- Publications
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Szerződési szabadság és paternalizmus: Adalékok a szerződési jog közgazdasági elemzéséhez
Századvég, vol. 2006, no. 41, pp. 41–78Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Bertalan László emlékkönyvről
Szociológiai Szemle, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 100–107Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesA racionális döntések elméletének helye a jogelméletben
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAz alkotmánybíróság és a közgazdasági érvelés
Fundamentum, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 75–77Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesFrom Law to Social Science and Back Again – the First Step.: Remarks on the Juristic Origin of Some Weberian Concepts
Ius Unum - Lex Multiplex. Liber amicorum Studia Z. Péteri dedicata.: Studies in Comparative law, Theory of State and Legal Philosophy. H. Szilágyi, I., Paksy, M. (eds.). Szent István Társulat, pp. 457–473Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersPosner és a privacy: Az információszabadság néhány problémája a jog gazdasági elemzésének szemszögéből
Kontroll, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 72–87Contributions to Journals: ArticlesÁllamelmélet és játékelmélet: Miről szól az alkotmány közgazdaságtana?
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsGazdaság és jog viszonya a marxista jogelméletben és a jog gazdasági elemzésében
Világosság, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 49–63Contributions to Journals: ArticlesKöznemesi felkelő vagy következetlen forradalmár?: Szabó Ervin és Révai József Kossuth-értelmezései
A bűnbaktól a realista lényeglátóig: A magyar politikai és tudományos diskurzusok Kossuth-képei 1849–2002. Dénes, I. Z. (ed.). Argumentum, pp. 65–97Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRichard A. Posner
Fejezetek a jogbölcseleti gondolkodás történetéből. Szabó, M. (ed.). 2nd edition. Bíbor, pp. 299–311Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters