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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
