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• Changes of substantive and procedural law concerning the register of non-governmental organizations

  148-163

  Szilárd Pálfay

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  236

  Provisions concerning the societies and foundations raise difficulties for judges, lawyers and judicial staff proceeding in the interest of registration of non-governmental organizations for a long time. The study examines the registration of non- governmental organizations with a view to provisions of substantive and procedural law and attempts to demonstrate problems being the cause of legal uncertainty. Finally the author puts forward a proposal for correction of regulation concerning the non-governmental organizations and suggests introducing methods in the interest of predictable application of law.

• The Human Rights Approach to Climate Change and the Anthropocentrism of Human Rights

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  Barbara Jakkel

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  230

  We live in the ’Anthropocene’, whereby human destructive activity is having such a major impact on Planet Earth that it has become the main culprit in the global ecological crisis involving climate change, biodiversity loss and overall pollution. The scientific conception of the Anthropocene makes it inevitable that societies will reconsider the myriad economic and legal institutions used to regulate the relationship between humans and the environment. Since, a critic from the environmental ethics perspective states that the ecological crisis has been brought about by an anthropocentric view that emphasizes the exclusivity of human interests, subordinating non-human beings to these human interests. Such eco- or biocentric approaches, giving rights to nature or constitutionalizing biodiversity, seem rather exotic to a European lawyer, as in climate policy fights of this region we make efforts to increase the role of human rights. In this paper, I would like to point out that legal solutions that go beyond an anthropocentric perspective should not be understood as a kind of exoticism, but as a fundamental challenge to human rights-based climate protection that seeks to extend the language of rights beyond humans and calls for a non-human-centred protection of the environment. I will argue that, while this challenge must be taken seriously, there are good reasons to continue to use the language of human rights to express our climate change-related demands.

• 60th Anniversary of the European Social Charter: Some Proactive Dilemmas

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  József Hajdú

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  474

  The European Social Charter is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe. For 60 years, the Charter has been protecting the social and economic rights of citizens across Europe. During these years, the Charter has been revised and new rights have been included to take into account the challenges facing our modern societies. But the Charter has remained at the heart of the Council of Europe’s statutory goals: human rights, rule of law and democracy, which cannot be realised without respect for social rights. However, sixty years after the adoption of the Charter, and thirty years after the adoption of the Turin Protocol of 1991 reforming the supervisory mechanism, the Convention has yet to realise its full potential. In this article the Charter’s two supervisory mechanisms are analysed and some proactive dilemmas and possible solutions are outlined.

• The recruitment of Law Students and Some elements of their Image of Profession

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  Mihály Fónai

  Attila Barta

  Annamária Csilla Gyüre

  Ferenc Pénzes

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  281

  In our treatise we have undertaken to characterize the speciality of strain of law students and some elements of their image of profession. The legalists traditionally occupy a middle-class position in the modern societies. Their high state and prestige succeed also profession-order characters that frequently go hand in hand with “natality order” procurer prestige.

  From the possible components of the image of profession we examined three main topics. Firstly the motives of profession-selection, secondly the patterns of finding a job, and thirdly the main expectations on legal teaching. Generally, law students and graduates also have a strong linkage to 
  the fact that, not only the diploma, but the profession itself has a powerful charm. The patterns of finding a job show that graduates frequently occupy lower positions, than they expected.