The Judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe

Mechanical Jurisprudence in Transformation?
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-17556-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 2400 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Law in Eastern Europe

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 predecessors. There seems to be a deep continuity in the methods of legal reasoning employed by lawyers in the region of East Central Europe, starting in the era of Stalinism of the 1950s up to the current post-Communist period, which continuity is manifested in the problems of 1990s and 2000s.

Communist legal culture and ist aftermath provide an interesting analysis of the development of legal culture in a long-lasting system which was intellectually almost completely separated from the outside world. The book targets the judicial ideology, the conception of law, and the judicial self-perceptions, which are phenomena most likely to be contained in the deepest level of legal culture, that most resistant to change.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the judiciaries and law of Central and Eastern Europe and post-Communist transitions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kühn, Zdenek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Mittel- und Osteuropa, Russland

Über Autor(innen)

Kühn, Zdenek
Zdenek Kühn, Ph.D. (2001) in Law, Charles University; S.J.D. (2006) University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Charles University and Judge of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court (2008). He has published extensively on legal interpretation and methodology.