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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Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesJudicial Individualism and Judicial Disagreement in Constitutional Reasoning
Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 231-251Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/icl-2019-0045
The legitimacy of the European human rights regime: a view from the United Kingdom
Global Constitutionalism, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 123-156Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045381718000333
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11369/1/ECtHR_gc10102018.pdf
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- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/the-legitimacy-of-the-european-human-rights-regime(ef8cce6d-35e5-4562-bebd-113a1ac7493c).html
Why Is the Equal Merit Principle (Almost) Straightforwardly Wrong?
Modern Law Review, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 1052-1072Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIs There a Fundamental Tension at the Heart of the Human Rights Act?
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2986007
The Debate About the Justification of Constitutional Review: Six Theses
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2986016
The Supreme Court (House of Lords) of the United Kingdom
Comparative Constitutional Reasoning. Jakab, A., Dyevre, A., Itzcovich, G. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 679-722, 44 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316084281.020
Against the New Constitutionalism
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. 278 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAlan Paterson, Final Judgment: The last Law Lords and the Supreme Court
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 289-291Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2015.0285
In Search of a First-person Plural, Second-best Theory of Constitutional Interpretation
German Law Journal , vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 1077-1107Contributions to Journals: Articles