Professor Tamas Gyorfi

Professor Tamas Gyorfi
Professor Tamas Gyorfi
Professor Tamas Gyorfi

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About
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

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

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

    Gyorfi, T.
    Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 317-338
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • From Equal Treatment to the Prohibition of Arbitrariness: An Analysis of the General Right to Equality

    Gyorfi, T.
    Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 65-87
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The arbitrator conception of authority, law as integrity and normative positivism

    Gyorfi, T.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • A diszkrimináció tilalma

    Gyorfi, T., Toth, B.
    Az Alkotmány kommentárja. Jakab, A. (ed.). Osiris, pp. 2495-2547, 53 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Alkotmányos alapelvek: ellenállási jog

    Gyorfi, T., Jakab, A., Salat, O., Sonnevend, P., Sulyok, G., Kovacs, M., Tilk, P.
    Az Alkotmány kommentárja. Jakab, A. (ed.). Osiris, pp. 127-237, 111 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • A köztársasági államforma

    Gyorfi, T.
    Az Alkotmány kommentárja. Jakab, A. (ed.). Osiris, pp. 109-126, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • A jogosultságok önállósága és a jogalanyiság kérdése

    Gyorfi, T.
    Jogosultságok: Elmélet és gyakorlat. Gyorfi, T., Szabó, M., Ficsor, K. (eds.). Bíbor, pp. 47-61, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Jogosultságok: Elmélet és gyakorlat

    Gyorfi, T. (ed.), Szabó, M. (ed.), Ficsor, K. (ed.)
    Bíbor. 268 pages
    Books and Reports: Scholarly Editions
  • The Importance of Freedom of Assembly: Three Models of Justification

    Gyorfi, T.
    Free to Protest: Constituent Power and Street Demonstration. Sajó, A. (ed.). Eleven International Publishing, pp. 1-15, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Arbitration Conception of Authority, Law as Integrity and Normative Positivism

    Gyorfi, T.
    SSRN Electronic Journal
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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