The Faculty of Law has always been a prestigious centre of legal knowledge in Hungary. Research is coordinated by the Research Organizing Unit of the Faculty. Its staff members arrange various research-related activities, issue books and other publications, organize conferences, book promotion events, keep records of research proposals as submitted by lecturers, researchers and faculty departments, propagate research findings, assist in organizing the Budapest Summer University, keep records of inter-institutional agreements.

The Faculty's civil law experts have been taking an active role in the ongoing efforts to modernize the Civil Code, to work out the general principles of the Companies' Act and the law on the procedure of courts of registry.

The experts on constitutional law have assisted to frame a law on innovations, while experts on criminal law helped to work out a new Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code. Time and time again ministries and the Hungarian Government approach the Faculty for expert opinion on draft laws proposed by government programmes.

Undergraduate research

The students of the Faculty have a free hand in deciding the topics to be discussed in the framework of Undergraduate Research in each semester. Undergraduate Research Groups seek to explore legal themes which are not in the limelight of the mainstream curricula. There are a dozen of undergraduate research groups at the faculty and their activities are most varied. They regularly invite experts for consultation or organize visits to legal institutions in Hungary or abroad. Some of the Undergraduate Research Groups focus on elite training. Students organize discussions of one another's theses, appoint an opponent and invite lecturers of the faculty to attend these discussions. Many students of the Faculty have earned honours and prizes at competitions at the National Undergraduate Research Conference.