Eszter Bodnár - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Papers by Eszter Bodnár

Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies

Courts conducting constitutional review do not work as ‘ivory towers’ any longer: they are part o... more Courts conducting constitutional review do not work as ‘ivory towers’ any longer: they are part of the global dialogue on constitutional ideas and thoughts. This dialogue includes an exchange of experiences with fellow constitutional and apex courts, as well as the close observation of developments in foreign constitutional and legal systems, scholarship, and international trends. The Constitutional Court of Hungary has been an active participant in this dialogue since the Court's establishment in 1989, albeit with varying levels of intensity and goals. Moving beyond the often anecdotal observations in this field, the paper aims to conduct a deep analysis of how the Court uses comparative law in its work (during the preparatory phase and the drafting of final decisions) and examines the factors that may influence the Court's practice in this area. Such a clear overview can assist proponents of the use of comparative reasoning to contravene the increasing amount of criticism ...

osteuropa recht

Osteuroparecht 2017/1. 65-80.

Individuals engaging in a collective activity can solve problems and acquire pieces of knowledge ... more Individuals engaging in a collective activity can solve problems and acquire pieces of knowledge without difficulty that they seem to encounter when they engage in an essentially solitary activity. This successful and competent collaborative performance and learning is usually attributed to socio-cultural constraints operating in the activity: the individuals select an alternative from their behavioral and conceptual repertories that is in accordance with social and cultural constraints, and, thanks to these constraints, they can find effective procedures and apt interpretations promptly in most cases. Although this notion of socio-cultural constraints in individual cognition is powerful, any analysis based on it must be individualistic. This is because individuals remain individuals in this formulation: the notion assumes that, though people influence others as well as are influenced, they never form a coalition, in other words, they do not construct collective understanding as a product of a series of negotiations. A more adequate strategy for investigating the process of collaborative learning would be a two-level analysis of activity, that is, to conceptualize the target phenomenon of individual cognition in a socio-cultural context as a collective or intermental process, as well as to specify what occurs in the intramental process of each individual as reflecting this intermental process. Extending the Vygotskian conception of "the zone of proximal development," I propose to describe this process as (1) the production of something collective or shared among the participants in the intersection of their negotiable zones, and (2) the individual incorporation of this "something" for generating, elaborating and revising his/her knowledge. I will present a few exemplary studies of collaborative learning using the two-level analysis of collective activity. Biosketch Giyoo Hatano is a professor of psychology and learning sciences at the Human Development & Education Program of the University of the Air, where he moved in April 2001 from Keio University. Most of his recent research has been concerned with conceptual development, expertise, and literacy/numeracy acquisition. He is an editorial board member of more than ten journals (including Cognition, Cognitive

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Jun 19, 2013

Particulate coatings produced by electrospray deposition (ESD) of ethyl cellulose particles are f... more Particulate coatings produced by electrospray deposition (ESD) of ethyl cellulose particles are found to widen over time. We hypothesize that during the ESD process, the electrospray expands due to repulsion caused by accumulated electrostatic charge in the film. The radial profiles of film thickness, mass density (per unit area), and porosity (gas volume fraction) have been determined as a function of several factors which influence electrostatic charging, namely, collection time, relative humidity, and deposition flux. The mass density has been determined from the local film thickness attained upon thermal annealing, which is largest near the center of the spray. The local porosity is lowest at the film center (at between 0.5 and 0.6), whereas across the film, it is roughly uniform (between 0.6 and 0.7) for deposition in a dry ambient, and slightly higher and more variable for humid ambient deposition. The granular films are compact (with low fractality) as expected for ballistic deposition (large Peclet number).

Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies

Courts conducting constitutional review do not work as ‘ivory towers’ any longer: they are part o... more Courts conducting constitutional review do not work as ‘ivory towers’ any longer: they are part of the global dialogue on constitutional ideas and thoughts. This dialogue includes an exchange of experiences with fellow constitutional and apex courts, as well as the close observation of developments in foreign constitutional and legal systems, scholarship, and international trends. The Constitutional Court of Hungary has been an active participant in this dialogue since the Court's establishment in 1989, albeit with varying levels of intensity and goals. Moving beyond the often anecdotal observations in this field, the paper aims to conduct a deep analysis of how the Court uses comparative law in its work (during the preparatory phase and the drafting of final decisions) and examines the factors that may influence the Court's practice in this area. Such a clear overview can assist proponents of the use of comparative reasoning to contravene the increasing amount of criticism ...

osteuropa recht

Osteuroparecht 2017/1. 65-80.

Individuals engaging in a collective activity can solve problems and acquire pieces of knowledge ... more Individuals engaging in a collective activity can solve problems and acquire pieces of knowledge without difficulty that they seem to encounter when they engage in an essentially solitary activity. This successful and competent collaborative performance and learning is usually attributed to socio-cultural constraints operating in the activity: the individuals select an alternative from their behavioral and conceptual repertories that is in accordance with social and cultural constraints, and, thanks to these constraints, they can find effective procedures and apt interpretations promptly in most cases. Although this notion of socio-cultural constraints in individual cognition is powerful, any analysis based on it must be individualistic. This is because individuals remain individuals in this formulation: the notion assumes that, though people influence others as well as are influenced, they never form a coalition, in other words, they do not construct collective understanding as a product of a series of negotiations. A more adequate strategy for investigating the process of collaborative learning would be a two-level analysis of activity, that is, to conceptualize the target phenomenon of individual cognition in a socio-cultural context as a collective or intermental process, as well as to specify what occurs in the intramental process of each individual as reflecting this intermental process. Extending the Vygotskian conception of "the zone of proximal development," I propose to describe this process as (1) the production of something collective or shared among the participants in the intersection of their negotiable zones, and (2) the individual incorporation of this "something" for generating, elaborating and revising his/her knowledge. I will present a few exemplary studies of collaborative learning using the two-level analysis of collective activity. Biosketch Giyoo Hatano is a professor of psychology and learning sciences at the Human Development & Education Program of the University of the Air, where he moved in April 2001 from Keio University. Most of his recent research has been concerned with conceptual development, expertise, and literacy/numeracy acquisition. He is an editorial board member of more than ten journals (including Cognition, Cognitive

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Jun 19, 2013

Particulate coatings produced by electrospray deposition (ESD) of ethyl cellulose particles are f... more Particulate coatings produced by electrospray deposition (ESD) of ethyl cellulose particles are found to widen over time. We hypothesize that during the ESD process, the electrospray expands due to repulsion caused by accumulated electrostatic charge in the film. The radial profiles of film thickness, mass density (per unit area), and porosity (gas volume fraction) have been determined as a function of several factors which influence electrostatic charging, namely, collection time, relative humidity, and deposition flux. The mass density has been determined from the local film thickness attained upon thermal annealing, which is largest near the center of the spray. The local porosity is lowest at the film center (at between 0.5 and 0.6), whereas across the film, it is roughly uniform (between 0.6 and 0.7) for deposition in a dry ambient, and slightly higher and more variable for humid ambient deposition. The granular films are compact (with low fractality) as expected for ballistic deposition (large Peclet number).