Representation of National and Ethnic Minorities in the Hungarian Parliament by Ivan Halász

“…The paper focuses on the history of the national minority representation in the Hungarian parliament. The old Hungarian Kingdom was traditionally a multicultural country. …”
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The Hungarian Parliament 1990-2010. Functions and development trends by Péter Smuk

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The effect of the 1885 reform of the Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament on the composition of the members (with a special focus on hereditary peers) by Veronika Tóth-Barbalics

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The Hungarian Constitutional Court betrays Academic Freedom and Freedom of Association by Gábor Halmai

“…<p>On 5 June the Hungarian Constitutional Court issued two injunction decisions, almost identical in their texts, which suspend the constitutional review procedures against two laws enacted in early April, 2017 by the Hungarian Parliament, outside the normal legislative process. …”
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Human Rights As Hate Speech by Eszter Polgári

“…<p>On 15 June 2021, the Hungarian Parliament passed Act no. LXXIX of 2021 which pursued a homophobic and transphobic agenda, curtailing the rights of LGBTQI people. …”
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Hungary in the Context of European Economic Migration by Zoltan Nagy, Irina Molodikova

“…On 19th June 2001, the Hungarian Parliament adopted an Act on “Hungarians living in neighboring countries” or the so-called “Status Law”. …”
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Hungary's Orbánistan: A Complete Arsenal of Emergency Powers by Kriszta Kovács

“…Eighty-seven years later, on 23 March 2020, the so-called &#8218;Enabling Act&#8216; was put before the Hungarian Parliament. This was drafted under emergency constitutional provisions in Articles 48-54.…”
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National Constitutional Identity in the European Constitutional Project: A Recipe for Exposing Cover Ups and Masquerades by Renáta Uitz

“…<p>On November 8, 2016 the Hungarian Parliament did not adopt the Seventh Amendment of the Fundamental Law seeking to protect Hungarian constitutional identity in the face of European imposition. …”
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The Sovereign Protection Office as the Tip of the Iceberg - Instrumentalizing Constitutionalism for Regime Preservation in Hungary by Henry Barrett

“…In December 2023, the Hungarian Parliament passed a law establishing a Sovereign Protection Office—a state administration which now possesses unfettered access to personal data to find and sanction supposed foreign agents among the Hungarian populace. …”
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Restoring the Rule of Law By Breaching It by Erika Farkas, András Kádár

“…<p>The judicial reform recently passed by the Hungarian Parliament ostensibly seeks to restore the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in Hungary. …”
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How NOT to Be an Independent Agency by Gábor Mészáros, Kim Lane Scheppele

“…The law establishing this authority, Bill T/1260, just passed the Hungarian Parliament on 3 October 2022. We have carefully read the laws enacted so far that establish a new anti-corruption framework and can confidently say that neither the Commission nor the Council should accept what the Hungarian government is offering because the proposed changes do not begin to alter business as usual in Hungary. …”
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The case law of the Constitutional Court regarding the constitutionality of the parliamentary electoral system of Hungary between 2012 and 2017 by Téglási András

“…Hungary's new constitution (also known as the Basic Law or Fundamental Law) reformed the rules governing the election of members of parliament. The Hungarian parliament further reshaped these rules with two subsequent pieces of legislation: the Act CCIII of 201 on the election of members of parliament, and the Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure. …”
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Tóth Lajos akadémikus, a polgári jog professzora, a Debreceni m. kir. Tisza István-Tudományegyetem 1934/35. évi Rector Magnificusa by Judit Balogh

“…From 1930, he was Senator in the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament, as a representative of the University of Debrecen.…”
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND CHANGING VOTING PATTERNS IN HUNGARY by Zoltán Kovács, György Vida

“…Nevertheless, the elaboration of a new electoral law became possible only after the landslide victory of Orbán’s conservative party (FIDESZ) in 2010, with two-thirds majority in the Hungarian parliament. The new law was finally accepted by the house in November 2011. …”
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Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921) by Paul Brusanowski

“…The parallel use of the reports of the Ministry of Education to the Hungarian Parliament, and the reports of the school councils of the executive body of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania to the ecclesiastical legislative forum, is an important part of this article.…”
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Ball in the Commission’s Court: Ensuring the Effectiveness of EU Law the Day After the Court Ruled by Martina Di Gaetano

“…Following intense months of dialogue with the European Commission, in mid-May 2021, the Hungarian Parliament repealed the law. However, at the same time, it adopted a new one on the Transparency of CSOs, which still presents the same shortcomings as the previous one and, consequently, continues to prevent CSOs from exercising their role of democracy watchdogs. …”
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