Goose-stepping? The concept of the Hungarian public administration contract from a private law point of view

Abstract

The author addresses questions raised in the professional literature of public law (e.g.: the applicability of the Hungarian Civil Code to public law contracts), alongside the contradictions (e.g.: there isn’t a unified set of denotations and categories) and problems included therein, and the one-sidedness thereof (the disregarding of the respective works of private law). We analyze the selected material by concisely explaining the relation between public law and private law in Hungary. The author pays special attention to the Hungarian public law definitions as well as the contract-types with their characteristics, and finally, conclusions are drawn, and compatible perspectives are proposed.

Keywords

• public law
• private law
• public administration contract
• authority contract