Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- t.gyorfi@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272215
- Office Address
Room: D43, Taylor Building
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Tamas Gyorfi joined the Law School of Aberdeen University in 2009. Previously he taught at the University of Miskolc and the Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Budapest). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Miskolc and his LLB from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest).
Internal Memberships
- MA Legal Studies coordinator
- Web-coordinator
- Advisor of studies
- Course coordinator
- Research
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Research Overview
His main teaching and research interests are in Legal Theory and Comparative Constitutional Law. He has published two books in Hungarian in these fields. (The Political Character of Judicial Review, 2001; The Perspectives of Contemporary Legal Positivism, 2006). For his public research profile click here.
Dr Gyorfi is interested in supervising research students working in the following areas: Legal Theory (especially legal reasoning and the normativity of law), Public Law, Comparative Constitutional Law (especially constitutional judicial review, popular sovereignty), Human Rights (especially freedom of religion).
Current Research
His current research revolves around the justification of constitutional judicial review, constitutional interpretation and the "juridification" of human rights protection. He is particularly interested in the theoretical issues raised by the weak form of judicial review. His book on these topics, Against the New Constitutionalism, has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Collaborations
Tamas Gyorfi is a member of the CONREASON Project, dedicated to the comparative analysis of constitutional reasoning.
Funding and Grants
RSE International Exchange Programme - The judicial review of legislation: a comparative study of the United Kingdom and Finland (2013)
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- American Constitutional Law
- Introduction to Legal Theory
- Public Law and Human Rights
- Publications
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Between common law constitutionalism and procedural democracy
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 317-338Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqt004
From Equal Treatment to the Prohibition of Arbitrariness: An Analysis of the General Right to Equality
Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 65-87Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/icl-2012-0104
The arbitrator conception of authority, law as integrity and normative positivism
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsA diszkrimináció tilalma
Az Alkotmány kommentárja. Jakab, A. (ed.). Osiris, pp. 2495-2547, 53 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAlkotmányos alapelvek: ellenállási jog
Az Alkotmány kommentárja. Jakab, A. (ed.). Osiris, pp. 127-237, 111 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA köztársasági államforma
Az Alkotmány kommentárja. Jakab, A. (ed.). Osiris, pp. 109-126, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA jogosultságok önállósága és a jogalanyiság kérdése
Jogosultságok: Elmélet és gyakorlat. Gyorfi, T., Szabó, M., Ficsor, K. (eds.). Bíbor, pp. 47-61, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersJogosultságok: Elmélet és gyakorlat
Bíbor. 268 pagesBooks and Reports: Scholarly EditionsThe Importance of Freedom of Assembly: Three Models of Justification
Free to Protest: Constituent Power and Street Demonstration. Sajó, A. (ed.). Eleven International Publishing, pp. 1-15, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Arbitration Conception of Authority, Law as Integrity and Normative Positivism
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1105948