The judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe : mechanical jurisprudence in transformation? / / by Zdeněk Kühn.
One of the most widespread problems in post-Communist countries is the quality of the judiciary. The book argues that these problems are intimately linked to the legal culture of Communist law, that an understanding of post-Communist judges necessarily requires an understanding of their Communist pr...
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| Superior document: | Law in Eastern Europe, v. 61 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Law in Eastern Europe ;
no. 61. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The origins of Central European legal culture
- Socialist legal culture in Central Europe : an introduction
- From Stalinist anti-formalism to socialist textual positivism : Central European judicial methodology during the Cold War
- Institutional changes after the collapse of communism
- Judicial methodology in a post-communist world : overcoming the concept of limited law?
- Conslusions. Rethinking the future of the central european judiciary.