Istvn Varga Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Personal Data
- Place of birth: Bkscsaba, Hungary
- Place of residence: Budapest
- Phone: + 36 1 302 9050
- Cell: +36 70 410 5022
- E-Mail: ivarga@knplaw.com
University and Other Professional Degrees
- Master of Arts, graduated with honors in German literature and linguistics at the
Faculty of Arts of ELTE University Budapest, diploma thesis: Nikolaus Cusanus in
der deutschen Geistesgeschichte (1997)
- Lawyer, graduated summa cum laude at ELTE Faculty of Law, diploma thesis:
Piercing of the corporate veil in Hungarian and German company law (1997)
- Hungarian Bar Exam with the excellent degree (2000)
Foreign Studies
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Friedrich Schiller Universitt Jena (one term in 1991/92)

Universitt des Saarlandes Saarbrcken (one term in 1994)
Ruprecht Karls Universitt Heidelberg (two terms in 1995/96)
University of Connecticut Hartford CT, USA (one term in 1996/97)
Universit de Montpellier I Montpellier (one term in 1999/2000)
Universit Aix-Marseille Aix-en-Provence (three months in 2001)
Universitt des Saarlandes Saarbrcken (PhD-research 2002-2004)

Academic Title
- Ph.D.: summa cum laude, obtained in Germany in 2005 with the award-winning
(DIS-Frderpreis 2005/2006, 1. Platz) doctoral dissertation Beweiserhebung in
transatlantischen Schiedsverfahren, published by C.H.Beck/Nomos in 2006
Current University Position
- Head of the Department (Chair Professor) of Civil Procedure at ELTE Faculty of
Law Budapest (since 2007, www.ajk.elte.hu)
- Vice Dean for Scientific Affairs at ELTE Faculty of Law Budapest (since 2008)
Additional Current University Posts and Assignments
- Visiting Professor of Comparative, International and European Civil Procedure and
Commercial Arbitration at Universitt Leipzig (lecturing 24 hours in each academic
year)
- Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law
(www.hagueacademy.nl/)
- Visiting Professor of International Procedural Law at China-EU School of Law,
Beijing

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Current Practice
- Attorney at law specializing in litigation and arbitration, Partner of the Hungarian
international law firm KNP LAW Nagy Koppany Varga and Partners in Budapest,
Hungary (www.knplaw.com)

Past Employment
- Constitutional Court of the Republic of Hungary
- Law Clerk (1997-1999)
- Counselor (2000- 2007)
- Counselor of the President (2000-2003)
- Associate professor of Hungarian and International Civil Procedure at ELTE Faculty
of Law, Budapest (teaching since 1997, chair professor since 2007)
- Lecturer at the Institute of German Linguistics and Literature at the Faculty of Arts
of ELTE University of Budapest, lecturing on special language of law and
economics (1997-2001)
Honors, Distinctions and Awards
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Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, academic years 1995 and 1996

First Prize in Hungarian Students Competition in Civil Procedure (1995)
First Prize in Hungarian Law Students Competition in Civil Law (1995)
First Prize of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS-Frderpreis 1. Platz) for
an excellent PhD-dissertation (2006)
- Holder of the Hungarian Governments Dek Ferenc Grant for academic year
2006/2007 (research field: international and European civil procedure)
- Holder of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai Research Grant for years
2008 through 2011 (research field: comparative civil procedure)
Selected Conferences
- Referent at the international civil procedural conference Provisional Remedies.
Title of presentation: Injunctive Relief in Hungarian Civil Procedure (Athens
1998)
- Reporter at the XI. World Congress on Procedural Law (Vienna 1999)
- Lecturer at Ritsumeikan University. Title of lecture series: Introduction to
Comparative Civil Procedure and the Basics of the Hungarian System (24x2 hours)
(Kyoto 1999)
- Reporter at the conference of the International Association of Procedural Law. Title
of presentation: The Role of the Judge in Hungarian Civil Procedure (Gent 2000)
- Lecturer at the German Judges Academy (Deutsche Richterakademie). Title of
presentation: Grundlagen des vergleichenden Zivilprozessrechts (Berlin 2004)
- Referent at the conference of the International Association of Procedural Law The
Reception and transmission of Civil Procedural Law in the Global Society. Title of
presentation: Foreign Influences on Hungarian Civil Procedural Law (Kyoto
2006)
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- Keynote referent at ELTE Law School at conference series Professional

Discussions in the Szladits-seminar. English title of the original Hungarian
presentation: Material Scope of the Arbitral Clause in Civil Law Disputes
(Budapest 2006)
- Referent at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences international conference. Title of
presentation: Comparative Aspects of Civil Procedure and Arbitration (Budapest
2007)
- Lecturer at the Budapest Bar Associations conference series on civil procedural
law. English title of the original Hungarian presentation: Problematical Aspects of
Taking of Evidence in International and European Civil Procedural Law (Budapest
2007)
- Referent at the ELTE Gttingen joint conference on European civil procedural
law. Title of presentation: Das neue europische Verfahren fr geringfgige
Forderungen (Budapest 2007)
- Referent at the ELTE SZIE joint conference on the interpretation of certain articles
of the Constitution of Hungary. English title of the original Hungarian presentation:
The Right to Remedy Constitution sec. 57 subsec. 5 (Budapest 2007)
- Referent at the Xian (China) ELTE joint conference on comparative law. Title of
presentation: Basic Paradigms of Hungarian Civil Procedure (Budapest 2007)
- Referent at the Hungarian Chamber of Notaries Public conference Transformation
of Rules of Law of Civil Procedure in the Law of the European Union. English title
of the original Hungarian presentation: New Alternatives of Enforcement of
Obligations in Cross-border Disputes in the Law of the European Union (Budapest
2009)
- Referent at the German Institution of Arbitration and the German Chambers of
Industry and Commerce joint conference Arbitration in Commercial Disputes with
Central- and Eastern-Europe. Title of presentation: Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit im
Wirtschaftsverkehr mit Mittel- und Osteuropa, insbesondere Ungarn (Dsseldorf
2009)
- Referent at Gttingen Conference on Civil Procedure. Title of presentation:
Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und EU-Recht (Gttingen 2010)
- Referent at the German Lawyers Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein)
conference. Title of presentation: Stand der Umsetzung der Mediationsrichtlinie in
Ungarn (Aachen 2010)
- Referent at the XIX. Symposium of the St. Ignatius College of Society of Jesus
New Challenges, New Civil Code Codification of Private Law in the 21th
Century. English title of the original Hungarian presentation: Codification and
procedural law (Budapest 2010)
- Referent at the Hungarian Legal Association conference Ferenc Dek Lawyers
Day. English title of the original Hungarian presentation: Offenders of the 20th
Century Facing Damages Lawsuits (Zalaegerszeg 2010)
- Referent at the 3rd Annual Legal Research Network Conference. Title of
presentation: Expert Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration (Groningen
2010)
- Referent and discussion leader of section Judicial Enforcement at the Hungarian
Chamber of Notaries Public conference 22. Colloquium of Central European
Notaries Public. English title of the original Hungarian presentations: The Major
International Trends of Enforcement of Private Law Claims and Enforcement in
Comparative Law Context (Visegrd 2010)

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- Visiting Professor at the China-EU School of Law for a total of 12 teaching hours on
Enforcement in an International Context (Beijing 2011)
Additional Permanent Professional Duties and Activities
- Member of the Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2008)
- Attorney at law, member of the Budapest Bar Association (since 2007)
- Director of the Foundation Budapest Forum for Europe (since
2001)
- Party-appointed arbitrator and expert witness on a regular basis at various
international arbitration institutions, including the Permanent Arbitration Court
attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Languages
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Hungarian (mother tongue)

German (mother tongue level)
English (professional level)
French (intermediate level)

Publications (each section in timely descending order)

I. Monographs
1.

Beweiserhebung in transatlantischen Schiedsverfahren. Eine Suche nach Kompromissen

zwischen deutscher und US-amerikanischer Beweisrechtstradition. C.H. Beck/Nomos,
Baden-Baden 2006. 341 p. online-reference
II. Commentaries and Chapter Contributions to Books

2.

Europisches Verfahren fr geringfgige Forderungen EG-BagatellVO, In: Thomas

Rauscher (ed.), Europisches Zivilprozess- und Kollisionsrecht, 3. berarbeitete
Auflage, Sellier European Law Publishers Mnchen 2010, Band 3, pp. 411-559. onlinereference

3.

Kisrtk perek. (Small Claims Procedure) In: Nmeth Jnos Kiss Daisy (szerk.), A
polgri perrendtarts magyarzata. (Commentary of the Hungarian Code of Civil
Procedure), CompLex Wolters Kluwer Budapest 2010. pp. 1463-1506. online link

4.

Egyb fontosabb polgri nemperes eljrsok (Chapter VI. on various additional

significant non-litigious civil procedures) In: Varga Istvn (ed.) A polgri nemperes
eljrsok joga (The law of non-litigious civil procedures), ELTE Etvs Kiad
Budapest 2010. pp. 985-1147. online-reference

5.

A jogorvoslathoz val jog Alkotmny 57. (5) bekezds (The right to remedy
Constitution
sec.
57
subsec.
5),
In:
Jakab
Andrs
(ed.),
Az Alkotmny Kommentrja (Commentary of the Hungarian Constitution). Szzadvg
Budapest 2009. pp. 2088-2126. online reference

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Arbitration in Hungary. In: Christoph Liebscher Alice Fremuth-Wolf (eds.)

Arbitration Law and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe. Juris Publishing New York
2006. pp. 1-102. online-reference

7.

Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Zentraleuropa Ungarn. In: Paul Oberhammer (ed.)

Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Zentraleuropa / Arbitration in Central Europe. Berliner
Wissenschaftsverlag
Berlin-Wien
2005.
pp.
629-807.
online
reference
III.Editing of Books and of Book Series

8.

A polgri nemperes eljrsok joga (The law of non-litigious civil procedures, ed.),
ELTE Etvs Kiad Budapest 2010. 1147 p. (ISBN 978 963 284 116 8; ISSN:2060
6494) online reference

9.

ELTE Jogi Kari Tudomny (ELTE Faculty of Law Scientific Series, ed.), ELTE Etvs
Kiad Budapest 2009- (ISBN 978 963 284 065 9) online-reference

10.

ELTE Jogi Kari Tanknyvek (ELTE Faculty of Law Textbook Series, ed.), ELTE
Etvs Kiad Budapest 2008- (ISBN 978 963 284 043 7) online-reference

11.

ELTE Jogi Kari Jegyzetek (ELTE Faculty of Law Lecture Notes Series, ed.), ELTE
Etvs Kiad Budapest 2008- (ISBN 978 963 284 044 4) online-reference

12.

Budapest Forum for Europe Book Series (ed.), Budapesti Frum 2005- (ISBN 963 218
9787) online-reference

13.

Magister Artis Boni et Aequi Studia in Honorem Nmeth Jnos (Varga Kiss eds.)
ELTE Etvs Kiad Budapest, 2003. 1071 p. (ISBN 963 463 613 6) online-reference
IV. Articles

14.

Urkundenvorlage aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht. In: ELTE Annales Sectio Iuridica,

tom. 50, 2010, pp. 165-185.

15.

rvnytelen vgrendelet teljes bizonyt erej magnokiratban. (Invalid testament in

private document of full probative value) In: Kzjegyzk Kzlnye 2010/5, pp. 1-7.

16.

Pharmaceutical Advertising in Hungary. (co-authored with Kornlia Nagy-Koppny),

In: The International Comparative Legal Guide 2010. London 2010 pp. 150-158. onlinereference

17.

A hatrokon tnyl ignyrvnyests j eurpai alternatvi. (New alternatives of

enforcement of obligations in cross-border disputes in the law of the European Union),
In: MOKK (Hungarian Chamber of Notaries Public, ed.), Polgri s polgri eljrsjogi
szablyok
talakulsa
az
Eurpai
Uni
jogban
(Transformation of rules of Civil Law and Law of Civil Procedure in the law of the
European Union). Budapest 2009, pp. 37-48.

18.

Breach of the reasonable time requirement in Hungarian law and in the practice of the
European Court of Human Rights. In: Michel Labori, Heribert Franz Kck, J.A.E.
Vervaele (eds.) Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Serie Jurisprudentia 2009 pp. 13-28.

19.

Setting Aside Hungarian Arbitral Awards Without Time Limit?. In: Acta Juridica
Hungarica 49 (3) 2008 pp. 327-339. online-reference

20.

Foreign Influences on Hungarian Civil Procedure. In: Masahisa Deguchi, Marcel

Storme (eds.) Reception and Transmission of Civil Procedural Law in the Global
Society. Maklu Antwerpen-Apeldoorn-Kyoto 2008 pp. 275-289. online-reference
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21.

Anstze eines einheitlichen europischen Erkenntnisverfahrens. Kritische Anmerkungen

zur EU-Bagatell-Verordnung. In: Werner Heun Volker Lipp (eds.)
Europisierung des Rechts. Universittsverlag Gttingen 2008 pp. 161-170. onlinereference

22.

ton az egysges eurpai peres eljrs fel? szrevtelek az els mrfldknek sznt
Bagatell Rendelet-hez (On the way to a uniform European civil procedure?
Comments on its envisaged first milestone: the Small Claims Regulation. In: Eurpai
Jog 2008 pp. 9-14. online-reference

23.

Sanktionierung der Beweisvereitelung in internationalen Handelsschiedsverfahren. (coauthored with Jnos Nmeth) In: Honorary Volume for Prof. Pelayia Yessiou-Faltsi.
Sakkoulas Athens 2007. pp. 751-771. online-reference

24.

szrevtelek a Polgri perrendtarts gazdasgi perek gyorstst szolgl tervezett

mdostshoz (Comments on the proposed changes of the Code of Civil Procedure with
regard to speeding up of lawsuits between business entities), In: Acta Facultatis
Politico-Iuridicae ELTE, tomus XLIII. Budapest 2007. pp. 239-246. online-reference

25.

Common law discovery und international private Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit. In: ELTE

Annales Sectio Iuridica, tom. 45. Budapest 2007. pp. 199-213. online-reference

26.

Der Sachverstndigenbeweis im Zivilprozess und in internationalen Schiedsverfahren.

In: ELTE Annales Sectio Iuridica, tom. 44. Budapest 2006. pp. 203-232. onlinereference

27.

Zum aktuellen Stand der EU-Verfassungsdebatte in Ungarn. In: Klaus Beckmann,

Jrgen Dieringer, Ulrich Hufeld (ed.) Eine Verfassung fr Europa. Mohr Siebeck
Tbingen 2005. pp. 303-310. online-reference

28.

Die Anknpfung von legal profession privileges in internationalen Schiedsverfahren.

In: Steffen Pabst, Guido Kosmehl (ed.) Liber Amicorum Thomas Rauscher. Ille Riemer
Leipzig 2005. pp. 169-179. online-reference

29.

Az sszehasonlt polgri perjog alapjairl (On the basics of Law Comparison of Civil
Procedures). In: Acta Facultatis Politico-Iuridicae ELTE, tomus XL. Budapest 2005. pp.
113-131. online-reference

30.

Witness Evidence in privaten Schiedsverfahren mit europischer und USamerikanischer Beteiligung. In: ELTE Annales Sectio Iuridica, tom. 43. Budapest 2005.
pp. 347-377. online-reference

31.

A bizonyts egyes krdsei a nemzetkzi vlasztottbrsgi eljrsban (Certain

questions of taking of evidence in international commercial arbitration). In: Varga
Kiss (eds.) Magister Artis Boni et Aequi Studia in Honorem Nmeth Jnos. ELTE
Etvs Kiad Budapest 2003. pp. 877-909. online-reference

32.

Richtermacht in Ungarn. In: Paul Oberhammer (ed.) Richterbild und Rechtsreform in

Mitteleuropa. Manzsche Verlag Wien 2001. pp. 115-130. online-reference

33.

Das Prozerecht auf der Schwelle eines neuen Jahrtausends. Lnderbericht Ungarns fr
den 11. Weltkongress fr Zivilprozessrecht in Wien. (2001) online-reference

34.

Richtermacht. In: Ritsumeikan Law Review No. 17, March 2000 pp. 131-144. onlinereference

35.

Die Gerichtsverfassungen der osteuropischen Staaten im Wandel. In: Peter Gottwald

(ed.) Grundfragen der Gerichtsverfassung. Internationale Zustellung: Band 10 der
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Verffentlichungen der Wissenschaftlichen Vereinigung fr Internationales Verfahrensrecht e.V, Gieseking Bielefeld 1998 pp. 65-70. online-reference
36.

Durchgriff A jogi szemlyisg ttrse (Durchgriff Piercing the corporate veil) In:
Magyar Jog 1996 pp. 744-750.

37.

Vergleichender berblick ber das Recht der GmbH in Ungarn. (co-authored with Udo
Michalski) In: Internationales Steuerrecht 1995 pp. 192-195.
V. Book Reviews

38.

Ulrich Magnus Peter Mankowski (eds.): Brussels I Regulation. (co-authored with

Kinga Timr) In: Magyar Jog 2009 pp. 374-378.

39.

Martin Gebauer Thomas Wiedmann (eds.): Zivilrecht unter europischem Einfluss.

(co-authored with Kinga Timr) In: Magyar Jog 2007 pp. 634-636.

40.

Lke Prtting: Lexikon des Verfahrensrechts. In: Magyar Jog 1996 pp. 571-573.
VI. Reviews of Own Monograph

41.

Ben Steinbrck, In: RabelsZ 2011 pp. 172-183.

42.

Paul Oberhammer, In: ZZP 2009 pp. 383-391.

43.

Georg E. Kodek, In: Zivilrecht Aktuell 2008 p. 180.

44.

Rolf M. Winkler, In: SchiedsVZ 2007 pp. 45-46.

45.

Jnos Nmeth, In: Jogtudomnyi Kzlny 2006 pp. 484-487.