The paper examines the role of collective agreements in regulating working time within the EU and Hungarian legal framework. It points out that although EU law provides collective agreements with considerable leeway to specify rules on working time and, in certain cases, to deviate from the working time directive, Hungarian labour law differs significantly from this approach. According to domestic research, collective agreements have low coverage, and in many cases the content of existing agreements is merely a literal repetition of the statutory rules. The study also analyses the collective agreement for the electricity industry which has extended scope for the whole sector. Overall, the author concludes that the Hungarian legal environment does not sufficiently encourage collective bargaining in the area of working time regulation and recommends a review of the regulatory framework.

Disqualification from the profession is a sanction in the Hungarian Criminal Law System which has a long historical tradition, and it deprives or limits people’s rights. The importance of enforcing these types of punishments in practice was recognised centuries ago, but unfortunately there has been very limited recent literature on them. In our study, after a short description of the substantive criminal law rules on disqualification from the profession, we would like to analyse the imposition of this penalty to fill the gap in the literature on this sanction and to answer several questions that may arise in relation to its imposition.

The felony of endangering a minor is the most important part of the fight against domestic violence in Hungarian criminal law since the statutory definition of the offence covers almost every types of child abuse. It would be impossible to list tha various forms of behaviours that might fulfil the statutory elements of the felony, the Criminal Code therefore defines the offence behaviour as grossly violating the duties arising from the obligation to raise, supervise or care for a minor. It is the task of the judicial practice to decide exactly which behaviours are covered by these terms. As a result, the violation of duty usually fulfils the elements of another offence, raisng questions about cumulation and delimitation. In the following, these issues will be discussed by reviewing the relevant case law and literature.

The review presents Szilvia Váradi’s monograph "Data Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", the first comprehensive work on the subject in Hungarian. One of the book’s major strengths is that it guides the reader from the introduction of technological foundations to the detailed analysis of legal and data protection issues, with particular emphasis on the relevance of the GDPR and the AI Act. Váradi situates the significance of AI not only within a legal, but also within a social and economic context, underlining the urgency of regulation. The book clearly explains the data protection challenges of machine learning and large language models, highlighting problems of transparency and accountability. From a critical perspective, the detailed technological background may at times appear encyclopedic, yet this broader perspective provides a valuable basis for interdisciplinary approaches. The review concludes that the book is both a pioneering and a guiding work, serving the needs of professionals as well as a wider readership.