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
Summary
The book analyses the judicial culture in East Central Europe from the era of Stalinism up to the post-Communist period of the 1990s and 2000s. The book targets the judicial ideology and the conception of law, phenomena most resistant to change