Tort and Regulatory Law in Hungary

Abstract

In Hungarian legal theory, practice and tort law regulation there seems to be a Chinese wall between administrative law regulation and civil law. This wall is built with the autonomous concept of unlawfulness and fault in tort law which are independent from administrative regulation. In Hungarian legal terminology, public law is the law governing the structure and activity of the state and state organizations,1 while administrative law is the law governing the organizing, decision-making and executive activity of state organs.2 There is not a generally accepted concept for regulatory law which is distinguished from public and administrative law.