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PETRA BÁRD Kiss looks back at the inception of the Hungarian human rights movement. Based on a school massacre case before the Strasbourg court, Miklés Lévay examines the state’s positive obligation of fundamental rights protection in respect of the right to life. Läszlö Majtényi discusses the joint responsibility of the Constitutional Court and the Council of Europe in the systemic restriction of free speech and freedom of the press. In his paper, Péter Szigeti tries to answer the provocative question: how is it that we have human rights, writing about the difficulty of laying the theoretical foundations for human rights and reflecting on the findings emerging in Hungarian literature. Finally, in his paper No comment, Gyorgy Virag summarizes the constitutional aspects of what is commonly referred to as trolling on the Internet, providing also a psychological explanation for this phenomenon. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND VOLUME The second, English and German language volume follows a similar composition, aligned with the topics of the studies received, with the book structured around six major topics. The chapter on international criminal law starts with Marjan Ajevski’s paper “on the banality of good”- in clear reference to Hannah Arendt’s Banality of Evil and the faceless perpetrators of the Nazi machinery. He addresses another bureaucratic machinery, this time at the opposite side of the spectrum, i.e. the ICC Report of Experts in the context of the study of international courts. Violeta BeSirevic sheds some light on the questions related to listing peacebuilding and reconciliation in the mandate of ad hoc international criminal tribunals and hybrid courts. To argue against this practice, she brings two different legacies, the Nuremberg’s and the ICTY’s, into perspective. Javid Gadirov explores the interpretation of lawfulness of action in crimes against humanity, with special regard to the limits of determining shared intentions and joint plans of perpetrators. Elspeth Guild explains the importance of the International Criminal Court in Europe and argues that the investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity planned and executed by individuals at the highest levels of EU institutions is revelatory of the importance of international justice. Richard Soyer and Stefan Schumann discuss the role of transnational corporations in global economic life and their responsibility in serious human rights violations having cross-border effects. They offer alternative routes for the expansion of international criminal law to incorporate these offences. The chapter on substantive criminal law, crime statistics and prison affairs starts with Hans-Jorg Albrecht’s paper on the expansion of criminal law due to international conventions’ obligations, which drive states to introducing criminal law as a remedy against old problems reframed as human rights violations and in s ]4 e
