Professor Mádl’s legacy
President Ferenc Mádl and his wife, Dalma Mádl’s memorial in the National Graveyard (Fiumei Úti Sírkert) (courtesy of Mádl family, with approval of András Mádl)
Ferenc Mádl was buried with great condolences in the National Graveyard (Fiumei Úti Sírkert), near the grave of Prime Minister József Antall. His gravestone was completed a year later.
Since 2012, he has been honoured in several places: a square in Tihany (Mádl Ferenc tér), monuments in Bánd and Herend, and plaques in Beregszász (Berehovo, Ukraine) and Rimaszombat (Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia).
In 2019, the Hungarian Ministry of Justice’s research institute took up his name (Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law), and is also responsible for the care of his legacy. Research into his life and work began almost simultaneously with the establishment of the Ferenc Mádl Institute, and a new edition of his most important works have been published in the ‘Works of Ferenc Mádl’ series, which was launched in 2022.
The life of Ferenc Mádl was the subject of a documentary in 2022 (Ferenc Mádl. The President of the Nation) and a two-volume monograph in 2023/2024.
The memorial plaque of President Ferenc Mádl at the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education (Beregszász / Berehovo, Ukraine) (with approval of Péter Erdei)
Premiere of the documentary film on President Ferenc Mádl at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (March 2022) (Photo: Endre Domaniczky)
Professor Mádl’s memorial plaque at the entrance to the Department of Private International Law and European Economic Law (University of ELTE, Budaspest, Photo: Endre Domaniczky)
Sovereignty, Integration, Rule of Law - Conference dedicated to the memory of Ferenc Mádl
Throughout his career, the three terms sovereignty, integration and the rule of law played a very important role. He believed in them and worked for their realisation until his death.
On the anniversary of his birthday, his contemporaries and peers, bearers of his academic and political legacy, remembered him and interpreted these concepts for the present times.
The conference speakers included Enikő Győri, János Martonyi, Péter Paczolay, László Trócsányi, Zoltán Tóth J., Imre Juhász, Gergely Prőhle and Ede Szilágyi.
Lawyers from the University of Pécs in local public life and administration. 100 years on the scales
Endre Domaniczky, senior researcher of the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law was one the guest speakers at the conference entitled "Pécs Lawyers in Local Public Life and Administration. 100 years on the scales.”
During his lecture entitled "He started out as an administrative lawyer...", Dr. Domaniczky spoke about the first university years of former President Ferenc Mádl which were spent at the University of Pécs. He touched on the first stages of the professor's academic career, who later became widely known internationally, and spoke in detail about his first mentors who had a great influence on him, including the life and work of Professor Ferenc Benedek who later became an internationally renowned scholar of Roman Law.