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MANAGERS, BODIES, RESPONSIBILITIES
IN HIGHER EDUCATION
INSTITUTIONS, PARTICULARLY
REGARDING STATE UNIVERSITIES —
SUMMARY IN ENGLISH
The book is based on the experience the author has collected as a university top
manager and member of several national higher education bodies and expert
groups, as well as by his multiannual research, summarised in a successfully
defended Ph.D. thesis. Nevertheless, the book is not the edited version of the thesis,
but a re-edited, re-written and actualised version, which, as an individual work,
reflects the changes in law and policy, and also contains content that could not
be included in a thesis. The book fills the gaps in both the national literature and
curricula. Hungarian legal research has not hitherto focused on the field of higher
education law, as scholars concerned themselves with some distinctive characters
of this part of the legal system, mainly the autonomy. Ina long time, this is the first
work, which is based on comprehensive research of not only the theory of higher
education law, but the analysis of the legal texts and the practice. Furthermore,
the book offers an overview of the history of the topic, and also discusses fields of
higher education law, such as the disciplinary liability of students (especially the
officeholders of students’ union), which were last investigated eighty years ago.
However, the book is more than a report of pure legal research. The author
approaches the theme of responsibility with a multidisciplinary method. Mindful
that all human actions begin in the brain, the work aims to understand the
psychological, primarily the social-psychological aspects of responsibility. The
novelty, in this regard, of the book is putting the university managers’ responsibility
into the special context of the attribution of responsibility, which offers the
possibility of the argumentation of a theory of ethical leadership in higher education
as a current topic in managerial science. This latter topic introduces the book’s
next theme: adapting the newest results of applied ethics, the author investigates
its role in the operation and leading of the universities. In the next chapters of
this work of legal science, the author presents the subject of liability and - as it
was already alluded to — the disciplinary liability, as a part of HEI managers’
responsibility and accountability. Finally, the author introduces a new type of
managers’ responsibility in HEI, called professional responsibility. This complex