Interview with Tibor Várady

Abstract

The career of the legal scholar Tibor Várady has been built around four corner stones. University lawyer education, protection of minorities, international commercial arbitration, and literature. Várady had studied and taught law in several countries. His acquired experiences offer extraordinary opportunity to him to identify relevant differences between legal education systems. The protection of minorities on the one hand links the stages of Tibor Váradys’ career, on the other hand it links different generations of the Várady lawyer dynasty. The interview reveals the establishment and the termination of the Hungarian language department, and the parallel Hungarian lawyer’s course in the Novi Sad University Faculty of Law, furthermore, the interview discusses the fall of the pro-Western and pro minority Panić government, and the enactment of the progressive laws on minority protection after the fall of Milosević, which laws made possible to elect the Hungarian National Council in Serbia. The interview elaborates the issue of the international commercial arbitration and Váradys’ historical lawyer novels through the complex relationship of the law and power. Can the law stand on its own feet? Can law be the limit to the arbitrariness of power? What factors influence this question? All these questions are, in one way or another, arise in the mind of every lawyer.