Norbert Csizmazia

St John's College

Form and substance in the law of secured financing

Start Date: 2009/10.

End Date: 2012/10.

2009-2012: Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge, St John's College

2008-2009: MSt in Legal Research, University of Oxford, Brasenose College

1997-2002: Doctor of law (dr. jur.), Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Law, Budapest, Hungary

Scholarships and awards

2009-2012: Cambridge European Trust Bursary

2009-2010, 2010-2011: The Modern Law Review Scholarship 

2010-2011: UK Foundation Scholarship 

2009, 2011: Research scholarships at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg

Employment/Work Experience

2002-2008: Legal counsel, Department for the Codification of Civil Law and Private International Law, Ministry of Justice, Hungary

2002-2008: Lecturer (part-time), Department of Roman Law, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

2011-2012: Supervisor in Civil Law I for Selwyn College, University of Cambridge; Supervisor in Civil Law II, University of Cambridge

Participation in the work of international organizations

Hungarian delegate to the Working Group VI on Security Interests, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) 2003-2007

Hungarian delegate to the Working Group V on Insolvency Law, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) 2003-2004

Hungarian delegate to the UNIDROIT Committee of Governmental Experts for the Preparation of a Draft Convention on Harmonised Substantive Rules regarding Intermediated Securities (2006-2007)

Member State Expert for Hungary in EC project on European Contract Law (2004-2008)

Participation in international research projects

National Reporter on Hungarian law to the Utrecht Working Team (Principles of European Law—Sales Contracts) of the Study Group on a European Civil Code (2005-2007)

National Reporter on Hungarian law to the Bergen Working Team (Principles of European Law—Lease of Goods) of the Study Group on a European Civil Code (2007)

National Reporter on Hungarian law for the Product Liability Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Member of International Working Group on Security Rights established by the Business & Law Research Centre of the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2006-2010)

Member of the International Working Group on Protected Funds (Trust Law) established by the Business & Law Research Centre of the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2006-2009)

Member of the Transfer of Immovables Working Group, Common Core of European Private Law (2007-)

Member of the International Insolvency Institute (2006-)

Comparative Law of Secured Transactions

Comparative Insolvency Law

Commercial Law

Property Law

European Private Law

Roman Law 

(Publications in Hungarian not included)

Articles

Reform of the Hungarian Law of Security Rights in Movable Property (2008) XIV Juridica International 1, 181-198.

Deficiencies in the Hungarian Insolvency Act and Possible Remedies in B Wessels and PJ Omar (eds), The Intersection of Insolvency and Company Laws, Papers from the INSOL Europe Academic Forum Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain 1-2 October 2008, INSOL Europe, Nottingham Paris 2009, 11-26.

Contributions to books

National Report for Hungary in SCJJ Kortmann et al. (eds), Towards an EU Directive on Protected Funds (Law of Business & Finance Series, Vol. 10) Kluwer, Deventer 2009, 175-209.

Sicherungsrechte an Immobilien in Ungarn in M Hinteregger and T Boric (eds), Sicherungsrechte an Immobilien in Europa [Security Rights in Immovables in Europe] Lit Verlag, Wien Berlin 2009, 51-89.

National Report for Hungary in SCJJ Kortmann et al. (eds), Security Rights in Europe (Law of Business & Finance Series) Kluwer, Deventer 2011 (forthcoming)

Translation

G Benacchio, Diritto privato della Comunità Europea – Fonti, modelli, regole (2nd edn Cedam, Milano 2001) translated with András Földi as: G Benacchio: Az Európai Közösség magánjoga (Osiris, Budapest 2003)

Dr David Fox and Professor John Bell