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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783575803321

Titolo

Rethinking the Rule of Law after Communism / ed. by Adam Czarnota, Martin Krygier and Wojciech Sadurski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Central European Univ. Press, 2005

©2005

ISBN

615-5053-62-6

1-281-37692-2

9786611376925

1-4237-4220-6

Descrizione fisica

383 p

Altri autori (Persone)

SadurskiWojciech <1950->

KrygierMartin <1949->

CzarnotaAdam W

Disciplina

340/.11

Soggetti

Rechtsstaat - Ostmitteleuropa - Geschichte 1989 ff

Rechtsstaat - Mitteleuropa - Geschichte 1989 ff

Rule of law

Post-communism

Constitutional law

Rule of law - Europe, Eastern

Rule of law - Europe, Central

Eastern Europe

Central Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Transitional constitutionalism : simplistic and fancy theories / Wojciech Sadurski -- Democracy by judiciary / 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 : experience from the Constitutional Review Chamber of 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 -- How far does transitional justice stretch? : judicial review for a dealing with 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.

Sommario/riassunto

In the original euphoria that attended the virtually simultaneous demise of so many dictatorships in the late 1980s and early 90s, there was a widespread belief that problems of 'transition' basically involved shedding a known past, and replacing it with an also-known future. This volume surveys and contributes to the prolific debates that occurred in the years between the collapse of communism and the enlargement of the European Union regarding the issues of constitutionalism, dealing with the past, and the rule of law in the post-communist world. Eminent scholars explore the issue of transitional justice, highlighting the distinct roles of legal and constitutional bodies in the post-transition period. The introduction seeks to frame the work as an intervention in the discussion of communism and transition-two stable and separate points-while emphasizing the instability of the post-transition moment.