Prof. Péter Hack
Prof. Péter Hack
Associate College Professor
Contact details
Address
1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3.
Room
E. 219.
Phone/Extension
2735
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  • 5. Social sciences
    • 5.5 Law
      • Law
The Criminal Justice System. Independence and Accountability of the Judiciary

The center of my reserach criminal justice system, the role of the police, prosecutors office, and judiciary.

Transitional Justice

There has been an increasing interest by human rights scholars and activists on the issue of so called “transitional justice”. Transitional justice has to do with situations in which a previously authoritarian regime has given way to a democratic one, and the new democracy is faced with the problem of how to address the human rights abuses of its predecessor. Transitional societies necessarily face with the past in general, and the legacy of human right violations in the previous regime in particular. The way of dealing with past very much depends on the power relations at the time the transition towards democracy starts. 

My research is concentrating on the normative and institutional framework of these measures. I am dealing with issues as criminal accountability, amnesty laws, truth revelation efforts, lustration, reparation programs, and the role of different relevant stakeholders and institutions, such as the United Nations, regional international organizations, civil society actors, international, hybrid and domestic criminal courts, or truth commissions. 

Anti-corruption legal solutions

Among the anti-corruption legal methods I am conducting researches on the role of criminal law, and criminal procedural law solutions. But besudes these elements I am dealing with the nationa integrity elements of the anti-corruption solutions, like the role of the judiciary, the prosecutors office,m and the police.

CV: pdf