Egyed István’s Analysis of the Administrative Jurisdiction in Hungary

Abstract

István Egyed (1886–1966) was one of the greatest Hungarian jurists in the 20th century; he was a state official at the Ministry of Justice, judge and professor of law. He conducted extensive research into administrative law, election of Members of Parliament, as well as into the public law system in Hungary after the Treaty of Trianon. In 1916 he published a study, in which he justified the necessity of setting up first instance administrative courts using arguments, such as easing the workload of the Administrative Court, the only special court at that time and the expansion of judicial remedies. He covered all organizational questions in the context of the general reform of the state administration by presenting foreign models of administrative jurisdiction. He envisioned the first instance jurisdiction in a mixed system where the judge’s view and the administrative officer’s life experience would properly be alloyed, and where a clear distinction would be made between the civil and administrative trials.