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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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Jogi érveléselmélet
Translated title of the contribution :The theory of legal reasoning Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Judicial Individualism and Judicial Disagreement in Constitutional Reasoning
Gyorfi, T. & Boda-Balogh, E., 2020, In: Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law. 14, 3, p. 231-251 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The legitimacy of the European human rights regime: a view from the United Kingdom
Győrfi, T. (Corresponding Author), Mar 2019, In: Global Constitutionalism. 8, 1, p. 123-156 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Why Is the Equal Merit Principle (Almost) Straightforwardly Wrong?
Győrfi, T., Nov 2017, In: Modern Law Review. 80, 6, p. 1052-1072 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Is There a Fundamental Tension at the Heart of the Human Rights Act?
Gyorfi, T., 16 Jun 2017, SSRN, p. 1-5, 5 p. (SSRN).Research output: Working paper
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HunConCourt database
Boda-Balogh, E. (Contributor), Deak, I. (Contributor), Fazekas, F. (Contributor), Gyorfi, T. (Creator), Kovacs, A. (Contributor) & Solyom, P. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 15 Nov 2021
DOI: 10.17632/n5gcbkjrpg.2, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/n5gcbkjrpg
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Judicial individualism and judicial disagreement in constitutional reasoning
Gyorfi, T. (Creator) & Boda-Balogh, E. (Creator), Mendeley Data, 29 Jul 2020
DOI: 10.17632/cg6fjg75vx.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/cg6fjg75vx
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Journal of Law and Society (Journal)
Gyorfi, T. (Peer Review)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer review
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Constitutionalism and Disagreement
Gyorfi, T. (Speaker)
9 May 2019 → 10 May 2019Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
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Is Weak Judicial Review a Viable Alternative in Europe?
Gyorfi, T. (Speaker)
6 Jul 2017Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
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Judicial diversity - why is the rate of progress so slow?
Gyorfi, T. (Speaker)
15 Nov 2017Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk