Tamas Gyorfi

Professor

Personal Professor, Law, Law

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6639-5285

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

constitutional law, constitutional theory, legal theory

10 Citations

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Personal profile

Research Interests:

Dr Gyorfi's 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).

He 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).

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.

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Research Output 2003 2019

10 Citations
9 Article
6 Chapter
1 Book
1 Scholarly Edition

1 Citation (Scopus)

6 Downloads (Pure)

The legitimacy of the European human rights regime: a view from the United Kingdom

Győrfi, T., Mar 2019, In : Global Constitutionalism. 8, 1, p. 123-156 34 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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legitimacy

human rights

Council of Europe

criticism

Is There a Fundamental Tension at the Heart of the Human Rights Act?

Gyorfi, T., 16 Jun 2017, In : SSRN.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

human rights

act

The Supreme Court (House of Lords) of the United Kingdom

Győrfi, T., Apr 2017, Comparative Constitutional Reasoning. Jakab, A., Dyevre, A. & Itzcovich, G. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 679-722 43 p. 17

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

1 Citation (Scopus)

4 Downloads (Pure)