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Title

Rethinking the rule of law after communism / edited by Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier, and Wojciech Sadurski.

Publication

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Czarnota, Adam W.
• Krygier, Martin.
• Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950-

Description

383 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book is concerned to assess, and to draw some of the implications of, the legal developments of these last dozen or so years, specifically as they speak to issues of constitutionalism, dealing with the past, and the rule of law."--Introduction.

Subject

• Constitutional law
• Post-communism
• Rule of law > Europe, Central
• Rule of law > Europe, Eastern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

Transitional constitutionalism : simplistic and fancy theories / Wojciech Sadurski -- Democracy by judiciary. Or, why courts can be more democratic than parliaments / Kim Lane Scheppele -- Rethinking judicial review : shaping the toleration of difference? / Cindy Skach -- Foxes, hedgehogs, and learning : notes on the past and future dilemmas of postcommunist constitutionalism / Venelin I. Ganev -- Democratic norm building and constitutional discourse formation in Estonia / Vello Pettai -- Between nemesis and justitia : dealing with the past as a constitutional process / Adam Czarnota -- Transitional justice in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands after World War II : innovations, transgressions, and lessons to be learned / Luc Huyse -- Transitional justice after the breakdown of the German Democratic Republic / Claus Offe and Ulrike Poppe -- Models of transition--old theories and recent developments / Hubert Rottleuthner and Matthias Mahlmann -- Restitutive justice, rule of law, and constitutional dilemmas / Grazyna Skapska -- Constitutional courts and the past in democratic transition / Renata Uitz -- Rethinking the rule of law after communism / Martin Krygier -- Transitional rule of law / Ruti Teitel -- Constitutional symbolism and political (dis)continuity : Legal rationality and its integrative function in postcommunist transformations / Jirí Pribán -- Corruption, anti-corruption sentiments, and the rule of law / Ivan Krastev -- -- Central Europe's second constitutional transition : the EU accession phase -- Neil Walker.

ISBN

9637326219 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2005013594

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library