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FOREWORD
in Europe.? Both his second and third monograph are dedicated to the subject
of criminal procedure: his thesis on the right to a fair trial was published in
Hungarian‘ and English’ in 2007, as was his doctoral dissertation discussing
the conflict between victims’ dignity and defendants’ rights from a comparative
perspective.®
The part of the anniversary volume dedicated to human rights recalls the
fundamental rights work of Karoly Bard. In UNODC, he also dealt with the broad
topic of judicial independence; served as the Hungarian member of the European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)? and worked as an expert of
the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In Hungary,
together with Tamas Ban he examined the compatibility of Hungarian law with
Strasbourg case-law, ensuring compliance through specific proposals,’° later
working as an agent for Hungary before the European Court of Human Rights
and the UN Human Rights Committee. For many years he worked as director of
research at the Budapest Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPT), later,
he headed the human rights program of the CEU’s Department of Legal Studies.
Studies on two other major topics were also included in the foreign language
volume: international criminal law and processing of the past. As early as 1988, as
a Humboldt scholar in Germany, Karoly Bard began working on the subject at the
Freiburg Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, before
turning his attention to the European Convention on Human Rights and fair trial.
5 Bard Karoly, Discussion Guide, in Yhdistyneiden, kansakuntien yhteydessa toimiva
Helsingin kriminaalipoliittinen instituutti (ed.) Non-prosecution in Europe: Report of the
European Seminar held in Helsinki; Finland, 22-24 March 1986, Helsinki, Helsinki Institute
for Crime Prevention and Control, 1986, 35-46.
° Bárd Károly, Emberi jogok és büntető igazságszolgáltatás Európában: A tisztességes eljárás
büntetőügyekben — emberijog-dogmatikai értekezés (Human rights and criminal justice in
Europe: Fair trial in criminal cases — a human rights dogmatics disserations), Budapest,
Magyar Hivatalos Közlönykiadó, 2007.
7 Bárd Károly, Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Article Six ofthe European Human Rights
Convention in a Comparative Perspective, Budapest, Magyar Hivatalos Közlönykiadó, 2008.
8 Bard Karoly, Az áldozatok méltósága és a vádlottak jogai: összehasonlító jogi tanulmány
(The victims’ dignity and the rights of the accused: a comparative study), Budapest, HVG¬
ORAC Lap- és Könyvkiadó Kft., 2021.
° The main idea behind the expert opinion delivered to ECRI has also been published in an
academic paper: Bárd Károly, Actions de la police, poursuites judiciaires, condamnations,
role des parties civiles, aides aux victimes, in Commission, nationale consultative des Droits
de 1 Homme France (ed.) Ce racisme qui menace l’Europe: actes du colloque sur la lutte
contre le racisme et la xénophobie en Europe, Paris, La Documentation Française, 1996,
180 -183.
1 Bán Tamás — Bard Karoly, Az Európai Emberi Jogok Egyezménye és a magyar jog: 5., 6. és
7. cikkek (Ihe European Convention on Human Rights and Hungarian law: Articles 5, 6
and 7), Acta Humana: Hungarian Centre for Human Rights Publications 3 (1992), 3 -162.
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