Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law 2019

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Legal, Ethical and Economical Impacts of Intergenerational Equity (Editorial Comments) – Foreword to Vol. 7 (2019) of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law 1
Marcel Szabó

Part I The Role of Legal Sciences and Jurisprudence in Responding to Climate Change and Environmental Challenges

1 An Important Planning Instrument: Strategic Environmental Assessment (EU Directive 2001/42) 13
Ludwig Krämer
2 Sustainable Developments in Foreign Investment Law and Policy – Related to Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation 29
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
3 The Case of the Hungarian Constitutional Court with Environmental Principles – From Non-Derogation to the Precautionary Approach 49
Gyula Bándi
4 The Precautionary Principle in the Fundamental Law of Hungary – Judicial Activism or an Inherent Fundamental Principle? An Evaluation of Constitutional Court Decision No. 13/2018. (IX.4.) AB on the Protection of Groundwater 6
Marcel Szabó
5 The Value of the Environment in Hungarian Municipalities – An Overview of the Legal Aspects 85
László Fodor
6 European Water Law and Uncertainty – Managing Hydrological Variability in Shared River Basins in the EU 105
Gábor Baranyai
7 Defining the Role of the Aarhus Convention as Part of National, International and EU Law – Conclusions of a Case-Law Analysis 121
Ágnes Váradi

Part II Developments in International Law

8 Judge Géza Herczegh – The First Hungarian at the International Court of Justice 141
Peter Tomka
9 Languages and Linguistic Issues before the International Criminal Court 155
Péter Kovács
10 The International Trading System and Market Distortions – Revisiting the Need for Competition Rules within the WTO 169
Franziska Sucker
11 Certain Factors Influencing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law 187
Réka Varga
12 To the Margin of the Theory of a New Type of Warfare – Examining Certain Aspects of Cyber Warfare 203
Ádám Farkas – Roland Kelemen
13 E Pluribus Unum? Racial Injustice in the US and the International Response 227
Thamil Venthan Ananthavinavagan
14 ECtHR Advisory Opinion and Response to Formal Requests Given by the Jurisconsult 245
Tamás Tóth
15 The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages – Specific Features and Problems of Application 259
Gábor Kardos

Part III Developments in European Law

16 Snapshot of the EU Soft Law Research Landscape – Main Issues and Challenges 273
Petra Lea Láncos
17 From Kásler to Dunai – A Brief Overview of Recent Decisions of the CJEU in Hungarian Cases Concerning Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts 289
Miklós Zoltán Fehér
18 Legal Challenges of the Retention of Worker Status as Reflected in Recent Case-Law of the CJEU 303
Laura Gyeney
19 The European Investment Bank – An EU Institution Facing Challenges and Providing Real European Added Value 327
Zsolt Halász
20 Towards a Conceptualization of the Notion of Solidarity in the Legal Framework of the EU 347
András Pünkösty
21 Key Factors of the Development and Renewal of the Social Market Economy in the EU 363
István Kőrösi

Part IV Hungarian State Practice

22 In Unchartered Waters? – The Place and Position of EU Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Hungary 395
Márton Sulyok – Lilla Nóra Kiss
23 Fair Trial under Scrutiny 419
Ágnes Czine
24 Content Neutrality and the Limitation of Free Speech – The Relevance of an American Principle in the Case-Law of the Constitutional Court of Hungary 431
Bernát Török
25 “Land of Confusion” – Social (Fundamental) Rights and the Provisions of the Fundamental Law in Light of the Practice of the Constitutional Court of Hungary 449
István Hoffman
26 A Multipolar System for the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Practice – Unjustified Dismissals of Government Officials in Hungary 465
Zsuzsanna Szabó
27 The New Hungarian Private International Law Code – Something Old and Something New 491
Katalin Raffai
28 The Rights of the Victim in Hungarian Criminal Proceedings 507
Anna Kiss

Part V Case Notes

29 Fiscal Equalization among the Hungarian Local Governments – Autonomy v. Equity – Decision No. 3383/2018. (XII. 14.) AB of the Constitutional Court of Hungary 525
Gábor Kecső
30 Magyar Jeti Zrt. v. Hungary – Judgment of the ECtHR Concerning the Imposition of Liability for Posting Hyperlinks to Defamatory Content 531
Renáta Gyalog

Part VI Conference Reports

31 EUdentity – European Conference on Constitutional Identity – Report on the ‘Constitutional EUdentity 2019’ Conference Organized by the Constitutional Court of Hungary, 8 March 2019, Budapest 553
Attila Szabó
32 Conference on the Evaluation of Legislation – Report on the ‘Evaluation of Legislation’ Conference Organized by Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 3 May 2019, Budapest 557
Noémi Suri
33 From International Law in Books to International Law in Action – ELTE Law School’s Jessup and Telders Victories in 2019 561
Gábor Kajtár – Katalin Sulyok

Part VII Review of Hungarian Scholarly Literature

34 Vanda Lamm (ed.): Emberi Jogi Enciklopédia (Book Review) 573
Zénó Suller
35 Péter Mezei: Copyright Exhaustion – Law and Policy in the United States and the European Union (Book Review) 577
István Harkai
36 Csongor István Nagy (ed.) – Investment Arbitration and National Interest (Book Review) 581
Tamás Szabados
37 András Jakab – Dimitry Kochenov (eds.) – The Enforcement of EU Law and Values. Ensuring Member States’ Compliance (Book Review) 587
Petra Lea Láncos
38 Inter Arma Caritas – Review of the Memorial Volume Issued to Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Géza Herczegh (Book Review) 595
Tamás Török