Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominatae LII [antikvár]

Foreword A German-Hungarian colloquium entitled Autonomie - Prozessrecht, was held in Göttingen on 5-6 March 2010 with the participation of the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, and the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and as supported by the DAAD Foundation. The scholarly meeting of the instructors of the two universities was not without precedents. The first joint colloquium was organized in Budapest in October 2007 and its title was Europäisierung des Rechts. The presentations delivered there are available in writing in a volume, edited by Werner Heun and Volker Lipp (Göttinger Juristische Schriften, Band 5, Universitätsverlag, Göttingen, 2008). Ever since a bilateral educational programme, called Deutsche Rechtsschule was launched several years ago, scholarly cooperation and jointly organized events have evidenced the intensification of bilateral relations. A two-semester programme, called Deutsches und Europäisches Recht in German language began at our Faculty in Budapest in 2002 as based on an agreement of the two Faculties. Tuition is done by instructors of the Göttingen University, and the DAAD, the IRZ-Stifhing and the Stiftung Budapester Forum fur Europa are among the sponsors. As from the 2006/2007 academic year, the educational programme was expanded. Under a new agreement between the two institutions, upon completing their legal studies, the Hungarian students may attend one semester at the Faculty in Göttingen and thus obtain the LL.M. degree of Georg-August-Universität. The regularly held joint colloquia, which derive inspiration from the successful educational programme, enable the professors of the two institutions to make public their studies in each other's publications. Our Annales is now issuing a special volume that carries essays written on the basis of presentations that were delivered during the colloquium of 2010. They reflect on the general issues of Autonomy and the Law of Procedure from specific aspects of legal theory, legal history, public law, civil law, criminal law and European law. On behalf of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences and the editors of the Annales, we express our thanks for the successful organization of the colloquium to the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August-Universität and personally to Professor Werner Heun, Doctor et Professor honoris causa of ELTE University, who has been playing a definitive role in the cooperation of the two Faculties right from the beginning. Finally, let us express the hope that we have thus established the living tradition of holding German-Hungarian colloquia. Miklós Király Márta Dezső