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Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.
List of contents
Introduction. Central and Eastern Europe Between Law, Culture, Identity and Comparison
Cosmin Cercel, Alexandra Mercescu and
Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski Part I. Central and Eastern European Legal Cultures: Theorerical Perspectives 1. Foreign Law, the Comparatist, and Culture: How It Is
Pierre Legrand 2. Central Europe: What's in a Name? Forging an Understanding of the Region as a Socio-Legal and a Socio-Political Space
Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski 3. The Region Without Qualities: Fiction, International Law and the Internalised Irrelevance of Central and Eastern Europe
Momchil Milanov 4. Judicial Formalism and Regional Legal Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
Péter Cserne 5. Non-compliance with the European Court of Human Rights Judgments: Delineating the Features of Central and Eastern European Legal Identity
Donatas Murauskas 6. Old Patterns Die Hard - The Idiosyncrasies of the Yugoslav Socialist Legal Tradition and the Problem of Continuity in the Western Balkans
Denis Preshova and
Nenad Markovikj 7. Constitutional Identity as Competing Historically Driven Narratives: Central and European Perspectives
Manuel Gu¿an Part II. Central and Eastern European Legal Cultures: Case Studies 8. Eternity Clause as Agalma: Articulating Constitutional Identity in Romania and Latvia
Cosmin Cercel and J¿nis Pleps 9. An Ancestry of Bridges: The Persistence of Legal Transplants in Croatia and Poland
Hano Ernst,
Miros¿aw Sadowski and
Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski 10. The External influence on Constitutional Identity: Comparing Estonia and Serbia
Katre Luhamaa,
Merike Ristikivi and
Marija Vlajkovi¿ 11. Historical Trajectories and Shared Destiny as a Basis for Common Legal Identity: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
Samir Fori¿,
Marko Doki¿ and
Danijela Vukovi¿-¿alasan 12. The Ever-Blurred Features of the Rule of Law: Albania and Bulgaria
Rezarta Demneri and
Anastas Punev 13. The Transfer of the Principle of Proportionality to the National Legal Order: The Cases of the Slovak Republic and Slovenia
Tomáš Gábriš,
Matej Horvat and
Marko Novak 14. Guarantees for Linguistic Identity: Approaches of the Republic of Lithuania and of the Republic of Moldova
Aist¿ Räkauskait¿-Burneikien¿,
Saulius Katuoka and
Teodor Papuc 15. Searching for Legal Identities through Narratives about the Habsburg Times: Czechia and Hungary
Markéta Št¿páníková and
Márton Matyasovszky-Németh Afterword. A Central and Eastern European Legal Culture? Cosmin Cercel,
Alexandra Mercescu and
Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski
About the author
Cosmin Cercel is Associate Professor in Law at Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland.
Alexandra Mercescu is Assistant Professor at the West University of Timisoara, Romania.
Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski is Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland; Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Global Studies, Alberta University in Lisbon, Portugal; Postdoctoral Researcher at CEBRAP - Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning in São Paulo, Brazil; Research Assistant at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
