Viktor Kazai
| Full Name | Viktor Kazai |
| First Name | Viktor |
| Last Name | Kazai |
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Viktor Kazai graduated from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Law (Budapest) in 2014. He received an M.A. (1) degree from the Pantheon-Asses University – Paris II (Paris) in the same year after completing the French-Hungarian Comparative Law program. He earned his LL.M. degree in Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University (CEU) in 2015. Mr. Kazai was awarded a doctoral degree in 2023 also at CEU. Mr. Kazai has years of experience in the field of human rights protection, notably as a legal officer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and member of legal teams that litigated such landmark cases at the European Court of Human Rights as the Karácsony and Others v Hungary. Since the beginning of his doctoral studies, Mr. Kazai have been regularly teaching constitutional law and human rights related courses at CEU and ELTE in Budapest. He also interned at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council and Europe and the Court of Justice of the European Union. As member of the FRANET research network he periodically wrote country studies for the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU. Mr. Kazai is member of the editorial board of the Hungarian human rights quarterly Fundamentum, a regular contributor of Verfassungblog, Osservatorio Sulle Fonti and other professional blog pages, and he ran his own legal podcast program discussing the illiberal trends in Hungary since the entry into office of the Fidesz-government in 2010. |
| Institution | ULB – Université Libre de Bruxelles |
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| Publications | Viktor Zoltán Kazai: La nature autoritaire du régime d’Orbán confirmée par sa réponse à la pandémie, in Denis Baranger, Olivier Beaud, Cécile Guérin-Bargues (dir.) Les démocraties face au Covid (Panthéon-Assas, 2023) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: “The ‘eternal candidate’ – that was me: interview with Károly Bárd, in Petra Bárd (ed.) Liber Amicorum Károly Bárd. Vol. II – Constraints on government and criminal justice, Budapest, L’Harmattan, 2022 Viktor Z. Kazai: Restoring the Rule of Law in Hungary. An Overview of the Possible Scenarios, Osservatorio Sulle Fonti, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2021) Viktor Zoltán Kazai – Tamás Győrfi – Endre Orbán (eds.) Kontextus által világosan. A Sólyombíróság antiformalista elemzése (Clarified by context. The antiformalistic analysis of the Sólyom Court), Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2021 Viktor Zoltán Kazai: The misuse of the legislative process as part of the illiberal toolkit. The case of Hungary, Theory and Practice of Legislation, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2021) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Ellenzéki petíciók az Alkotmánybíróság gyakorlatában (Petitions of the opposition parties in the case law of the Constitutional Court), Fundamentum Vol. 24., No. 4 (2020) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Államcél (Constitutional mission statements) in András Jakab et el. (eds.) Internetes Jogtudományi Enciklopédia (Online Legal Encyclopedia), Orac Publisher, 2020 Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Alapvető kötelezettségek (Civic duties) in András Jakab et el. (eds.) Internetes Jogtudományi Enciklopédia (Online Legal Encyclopedia), Orac Publisher, 2020 Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Az Európai Unió Bíróságának ítélete az „Egy közülünk” elnevezésű európai polgári kezdeményezésről (The judgment of the CJEU on the “One of Us” European citizens initiative), Jogesetek Magyarázata, Vol. 11, Issue 1-2 (2020) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: The Instrumentalization of Parliamentary Legislation and its Possible Remedies. Lessons from Hungary, Jus Politicum, No. 23 (2019) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Le renforcement du contrôle de la procédure législative. Une stratégie proposée aux Cours constitutionnelles opérant dans un système populiste, Annuaire internationale de justice constitutionnelle, Vol. 34. (2019) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: The illiberal challenge to the Rule of Law principle: the neglected procedural aspect (with special focus on Hungary), European Society of International Law Conference Paper Series, No. 8/2019 (2019) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: La révolution constitutionnelle permanente en Hongrie, Lettre de l’Est, No. 17/18 (2019) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: A joggyakorlat értelmezésének nehézségei illiberalizmus idején – érvek a narratív módszer mellett (Difficulties concerning the analysis of the constitutional jurisprudence in times of illiberalism. A case for the narrative method), Fundamentum, Vol. 22, No. 2-3 (2018) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: „ … hogy ne kelljen a múltat ’végképp eltörölni’” – Lévay Miklós leköszönt alkotmánybíróval Kazai Viktor Zoltán beszélget („..so that the past does not have to be ‘completely erased’” – Interview with former member of the Constitutional Court, Miklós Lévay), Fundamentum, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2016) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Strasbourgi manifesztum a liberális demokrácia védelmében – a Karácsony- és a Szél ügyek elemzése. (A manifesto from Strasbourg for the protection of liberal democracy – an analysis of the Karácsony and Szél cases), Fundamentum, Vol. 19, No. 2-3 (2015) Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Megszorított értelmezés – korlátozott alapjogok (Restricted interpretation, limited fundamental rights), in A XXXI. OTDK állam- és jogtudományi szekciójában I. helyezést elért hallgatók ünnepi kötete (The collection of studies awarded with a first prize at the 31st National Conference of University Students), Wolters Kluwer, 2014 Viktor Zoltán Kazai: Kettős nyomás alatt (Under double pressure), Közjogi Szemle, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (2013) |
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