{"title":"Forensic strategy in Cicero’s speech in defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus","authors":"T. Nótári","doi":"10.1556/AJUR.52.2012.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJUR.52.2012.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"The statement of the defence delivered in the criminal action (causa publica) of Aulus Cluentius Habitus-Cicero’s longest actually delivered speech left to us-is from 66, that is, the year when Cicero was praetor. In certain respect, it is the precious stone of Cicero’s ars oratoria since its narrative is vivid, full of turns like a crime story; events, scenes, planes of time replace one another boldly, sometimes seemingly illogically but, being subordinated to the effect the orator means to attain, in an exactly premeditated sequence. Cluentius was charged, on the one hand, with poisoning his stepfather, Statius Albius Oppianicus. The other part of the charge was founded on the criminal proceedings under which eight years before Cluentius charged Oppianicus with poisoning attempt against him, as a result of which Oppianicus was compelled to go into exile-in the current lawsuit, however, the prosecution brought it up against him that the former court of justice declared Oppianicus guilty purely because Cl...","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125277323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A logic model of the European patent system","authors":"Zsófia Kacsuk","doi":"10.1556/AJUR.53.2012.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJUR.53.2012.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"In patent law most of the crucial legal questions such as patentability and infringement are linked to the patent claims. The European Patent Office regards patent claims as a set of independent features which are examined separately in a more or less formal way. The author has found that this approach allows for developing a simple logic model which treats patent claim features as logical statements and patent claims as compound statements wherein the individual logical statements are connected by logical connectives. The proposed logic model provides a uniform system for examining various legal questions that are dealt with separately under current case-law, moreover, it allows for examining the logical coherence between the different case-law decisions as well as detecting any hidden logical inconsistencies. The present paper offers an overview of the different legal questions linked to the patent claim and demonstrates the practical application of the proposed model.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131030222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Papinianus on the stage: A martyr of law or a modern model?","authors":"B. Szabo","doi":"10.1556/AJur.53.2012.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJur.53.2012.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses Andreas Gryphius’s tragedy (Grosmutiger Rechtsgelehrter oder Sterbender Aemilius Paulus Papinianus: Trauerspiel) about the death of Papinianus, the famous Roman jurist of the Late Classic era. The author analyzes the historical context of the death of Papinianus in detail, and he also examines how Gryphius used the historical sources and his poetic imagination in writing his drama. The second part examines Gryphius’s ideas about the law and state and argues that he followed Jean Bodin’s teaching when he declared that the sovereign is bound by divine law and natural law. Additionally, the author also discusses the message of this 17th century drama for the contemporary lawyers. His main argument is that the exemplum of Papinianus encourages modern lawyers to create their professional value system and to insist on it conscientiously.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125931815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Law and literature in Hungary — An introduction","authors":"István H. Szilágyi","doi":"10.1556/AJur.53.2012.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJur.53.2012.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to give a concise review of contemporary Hungarian researches carried out in the field of “law and literature”. It evokes the preliminaries form previous century’s in Hungarian legal philosophy, and it discusses the recent achievements by taking a closer look on the results of three subsequent symposia organized in 2006, 2008 and the previous year. In conclusion, the paper outlines the possible directions for further development of certain aspects of legal education and the critical potential of “law and literature” studies.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127139626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The lord of the rings. The tale and the unfolding wisdom of lawyers","authors":"István H. Szilágyi","doi":"10.1556/AJur.53.2012.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJur.53.2012.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This essay aims to explore the political and legal philosophical layers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece. First, it demonstrates the ambivalent feature of power and authority appearing in The Lord of the Rings. The second part gives a reading of Tolkien’s philosophical anthropology. Next, it is shown how Tolkien’s concept of law can be placed in the framework of a Lockean political theory. Finally, the paper discusses the educational potential of this literary work in the process of moral and legal socialization of the “lawyers-to-be”.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131382181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hungarian EU Presidency-A newcomer’s experience in a novel institutional framework","authors":"Réka Friedery, Balázs Horváthy","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2587691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2587691","url":null,"abstract":"In the first half of 2011 Hungary held the rotating Presidency on top of the Council for the first time since joining the EU. The exercise of the presidential functions was influenced by the fact that the Treaty of Lisbon significantly reshaped the position of the rotating Presidency in the architecture of the European Union. The Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency has been already carried out within the revised institutional framework which required a new style to accomplish the proper function of the Presidency. That means an entirely different approach which enables the successful cooperation of the country holding the presidency with the new leaders on the floor, namely with the permanent President of the European Council and with the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR). These institutional changes effectuated by the Treaty of Lisbon as well as the Hungarian Presidency itself make sense of an analysis with respect to the new institutional model; moreover to the challenges and achievements of the Hungarian Presidency. For that reason the following article describes the institutional background along with the most important functions of the presidency, which is followed by an overview of the Hungarian Presidency’s work and the main conclusions.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114920577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trademark infringement by domain name registrars","authors":"Sándor Vida","doi":"10.1556/AJUR.52.2011.4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJUR.52.2011.4.6","url":null,"abstract":"section 27(4) of the Trademark Act, as amended in 2005, provides enforcement against intermediaries whose services are used by a third party (that is usually the infringer itself) for the infringement. In the HYUNDAI case the registrars of the domain names, trusted by the resellers of cars having formerly been members of the HYUNDAI commercial chain in Hungary, were sued together with the resellers for the reason that they did not cancel the registration of the domain names after the commercial chain had been ceased. The Hungarian courts of first and second instance built their judgements on the ECJ’s BMW judgement (C-63/97). Emphasis is given also on a case relating to infringement by an operator of an Internet home page, as the latter was condemned by the Hungarian Court of first instance for not complying with the Act on Electronic Commerce. Nevertheless, the court of second instance condemned him not therefore but for the tort in respect of the provisions of the Civil Code, e.g. for injury of reputation. Finally, the article is closed by an outlook on ideas on the development of EC law relating to liability of intermediaries.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132257833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Italian legislation on Roma and Sinti and its compliance with European and international standards","authors":"I. R. Pavone","doi":"10.1556/AJUR.52.2011.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJUR.52.2011.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe’s High Commissioner on Human Rights, in a report issued on 7 September 2011, expressed grave concerns about anti-gypsyism widely diffused in the Italian society.1 According to Mr. Hammarberg, policies adopted by the Italian government against criminality, and in particular forced evictions of Roma and Sinti from illegal settlements carried out in several Italian municipalities since 2008, raised some concerns about their compatibility with international human rights’ law, and in particular with the right to an adequate housing, to the right not to be discriminated on an ethnic basis and with the right to education of children. The aim of this paper is to analyze the compatibility of the Italian anti-discrimination legislation with European and international standards and if and in which degree Italy has violated or violates fundamental rights of Roma and Sinti.2 In this vein, it starts with a brief overview of international human rights’ standards applicable to Roma and Sinti, with particular reference to economic, social and cultural rights. The survey will encompass the activity of the United Nations (UN) as well as of regional organizations, such as the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU). The second part of the article is devoted to the Italian legislation, with particular reference to the legal status of Roma and Sinti and to the main legal measures adopted in response to violence committed by them against Italian citizens in 2008 and 2009 (the declared state of “Nomad Emergency”). Particular attention will be also paid to anti-discrimination existing laws.","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128392058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first three decades of legal reforms in the People’s Republic of China (1978/1979-2008/2009)","authors":"Gyula Koi","doi":"10.1556/AJur.52.2011.4.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/AJur.52.2011.4.7","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the current problems of the different levels of Chinese administrative reforms implemented in the first three decades from 1978–1979 to 2008–2009. The discipline of legal sinology is a relatively new scientific field in Hungary and we have adopted its methods in the research leading to this study. The first and second parts of the study are based on the grounds of the most modern historical sources on the antecedents of the reforms. The third part of this work analyses the reform of the State Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. The most important result of this process was the recognition and protection of basic human rights under the State Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. The fourth part highlights recent administrative reforms from period to period. The administrative reform included the reform of the State Council (Government of the People’s Republic of China), as a result of which the number of the staff of the State Council diminished from 51,000 to 16,7...","PeriodicalId":284706,"journal":{"name":"Acta Juridica Hungarica","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121318420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}