Central and Eastern Europe After Transition Towards a New Socio-legal Semantics

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines and examines new autonomous differences adopted at the state and the supranational level in the post-transitional phase of the post-Communist area, and considers their impact on constitutions, democracy and legal culture. With representative contributions from older and newer EU members, the book provides a broad set of cultural points for reference. Its comparative and interdisciplinary approach includes a useful selection of bibliographical resources specifically devoted to the Central Eastern European countries' transitions.

Introduction; Part 1 The Constitutional Framework; Chapter 1 Constituting the Heterarchy of European Constitutionalism in the EU’s New Member States, Ji?íP?ibá?; Chapter 2 Legal Cultures in Transition, AlbertoFebbrajo; Chapter 3 Democratic Ethics, Constitutional Dimensions and ‘Constitutionalisms’, PaulBlokker; Chapter 4 Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Culture in Central and Eastern European Countries, WojciechSadurski; Chapter 5 Constitutional Culture and the Theory of Adjudication, DanielSmilov; Chapter 6 Settling Accounts with the Past, the Conceptualization of Difference and the Dilemmas of the Law-governed State, Gra?ynaSk?pska; Part 2 The Legal Professions; Chapter 7 The Democratization and Modernization of Post-communist Judiciaries, Zden?kKühn; Chapter 8 Bureaucratic and Managerial Cultures in Central Eastern European Courts, DanielaPiana; Chapter 9 Polish Prosecutors, Political Corruption, and Legal Culture, PaulinaPolak, DavidNelken; Chapter 10 Notaries in Central Europe, GiselaShaw; Chapter 11 Multiple Transitions to the EU Constitutional Project, VittorioOlgiati;

Alberto Febbrajo is Professor of Law at the University of Macerata, Italy, and a former Rector of the university. Wojciech Sadurski is Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, and former Dean of the Law dept, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.