Research projects in internal cooperation

Cooperation agreement with the National Expert and Research Center

On April 8, 2025, our Institute formalized a partnership with the National Expert and Research Center through a cooperation agreement. This collaboration is rooted in the longstanding integration of expert evidence studies within NIC's research endeavours, which continues to be a central focus of inquiry as a vital component of evidence. Presently, the imperative to optimize the utilization of experts across various professions is particularly significant, and this issue has been prioritized in NIC's work program for the current year as part of our joint initiatives.

As a body of forensic experts possessing extensive scientific and professional expertise, the NERC is dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of expert utilization and offers its theoretical and practical insights to support our shared objectives of analysing expert evidence from a legal standpoint and formulating strategies to render expert activities timelier and more efficient.

The agreement was executed by Dr. Andrea Tünde Barabás, Director of NIC, and Márton Lontai, Director General of the NERC.

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MTA Research Centre of Social Studies,
Institute of Legal Studies 
(MTA TK JTI)

I. Internet Encyclopaedia of Legal Science

II. Conference series

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I. Internet Encyclopaedia of Legal Science

Over the last few decades, a general shift can be observed in the methods of publishing scientific knowledge towards online publication. The MTA TK Institute of Legal Sciences intends to create an online, openly accessible encyclopaedia of legal science (www.jogtudomány.hu) within the framework of a medium-term project.
In the context of academic cooperation between MTA TK JTI and OKRI, editors-in-chief András Jakab and Balázs Fekete invited Klára Kerezsi to become a member of the editorial board and to perform editing tasks on articles on the theme of criminology.
Between March 2014 and January 2015, the members of the editorial board prepared the list of terms recommended for their respective areas. Work began on developing a list of terms and consulting on them, clarifying individual problems and deciding on the final list of terms.
In the meantime, the list of terms in the Online Encyclopaedia of Legal Science was completed and consolidation of the list began.
At this time, the harmonisation of the article list relevant from the aspect of the relationship between criminology and criminal law is in progress. The articles relevant for both fields (e.g. crimes against property, recidivism etc.) are written under the supervision of both fields. This means that the editors agree on who the author or authors should be, and the editors of both sections check the draft text.

II. Conference series

“Old and New Points of Debate Concerning
the Fourth Criminal Code”

Hungary’s fourth Criminal Code, Act C of 2012, entered into force on 1 July 2013. Professional and scientific discussions always intensify directly prior to and after the entry into force of a new Criminal Code. The National Institute of Criminology and the MTA TK Institute of Legal Sciences joined that debate and organised a conference series under the title of “Old and New Points of Debate Concerning the Fourth Criminal Code”.
The conference series did not only present the new features of the Criminal Code but also intended to provide an opportunity to reconsider questions on the interpretation of the law, which had appeared in Hungarian criminal law as the legacy of former codes.

Contact person and organisers:
   On behalf of OKRI, Dr. habil. A. Tünde Barabás, head of department
   On behalf of MTA TK JTI, Dr. Miklós Hollán PhD, scientific senior fellow

Four conferences were held in the series, dedicated to the following topics: