Nagy, Csongor István, Private International Law: A Hungarian Perspective (June 1, 2024)

Nagy, Csongor István, Private International Law: A Hungarian Perspective (June 1, 2024). Law in Eastern Europe, Volume: 71, ISBN: 978-90-04-69456-9 (e-book), ISBN: 978-90-04-69083-7, 2024, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4840867

Professor Csongor Nagy has recently published an Open Access monograph with Brill entitled “Private International Law: A Hungarian Perspective”. The book is available for download here. It provides a concise and analytical introduction to private international law in Hungary and presents both Hungarian conflicts rules and their judicial practice and the application of EU conflicts rules by Hungarian courts.

The last two decades saw a legislation boom in the field of EU PIL. EU conflicts instruments have gradually taken over national rules and today the overwhelming part of PIL has been shifted to the EU level. Still, national PILs have remained the primary sources in quite a few fields and in the fields where they did not it is still the national judiciary that turns the European “law in books” into “law in action”. Professor Nagy’s monograph provides an analysis of both aspects from a Hungarian perspective. First, Hungarian PIL was recodified in 2017 and the book provides an account of how European and national conflicts rules coexist, interact and symbiose. Second, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the application and interpretation of EU PIL by the Hungarian judiciary.