ACTA JURIDICA - A MTA Jogtudományi Közleményei Tom. 25 (1983)

1983 / 1-2. sz. - KULCSÁR KÁLMÁN: Bihari Ottó 1921-1983

2 from the popularity of these sciences owing to the dogmatism of the earlier years, it seems, might be regained by applying new and more up-to-date methods of research. The Hungarian socialist legal sciences have also taken a change into this very direction. Without giving up its position in the setting forth and making known of the already existing legal institutions and of the valid and prevailing legal regulation, and that of its aiming at the improvement of law-application, it continues its investigations and researches on the line of society and law, and on that of the State institutions. It attempts to fix up and determine the trend of development by assessing both the positive and negative effects and impacts of the State and legal institutions of past and present." It is almost a decade and a half that he put down these lines and in the process of revival of the legal sciences characterized by him, Professor Ottó Bihari had also taken a very considerable part, furthermore, in this development. As an expert of constitutional law, he carried out comparative research especially in the field of constitutional law and political science and together with that, he performed an organizing activity aiming at broadening the foreign and international relations of Hungarian legal sciences, and, what is more, those of the social sciences. The activities carried out by him therefore served the purpose of promotion of Hungarian scientific activity contributing, thus on its own domain, to the materialization and realization of this very development. In the last phase of his life, he combined his research work in legal sciences with other researches of a social science character, and in his capacity of Director of the Transdanubian Scientific Research Institute he promoted the inter­disciplinary attitude in the field of both the effective research work and directing activities as well. Not even an approximative analysis and appreciation of the professional activity realized by Professor Ottó Bihari could be offered within the present and rather limited framework. What really will allow the survival of his memory is, in the first place, the impact of his thoughts and works in the minds of his students and in the future scientific activities of his Colleagues. K. Kulcsár Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 25, 1983

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