Central and Eastern Europe after transition : towards a new socio-legal semantics / edited by Alberto Febbrajo and Wojciech Sadurski.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-356) and index.

Constituting the heterarchy of European constitutionalism in the EU's new member states / Jirí Pribán -- Legal cultures in transition : a system-theory approach / Alberto Febbrajo -- Democratic ethics, constitutional dimensions and 'Constitutionalisms' / Paul Blokker -- Constitutional courts an Constitutional culture in Central and Eastern European Countries / Wojciech Sadurski -- Settling accounts with the past, the conceptualization of difference and the dilemmas of the law-governed state / Grazyna Skapska -- The democratization and modernization of post-communist judiciaries / Zdenek Kuhn -- Bureaucratic and managerial cultures in Central Eastern European Courts / Daniela Piana -- Polish prosecutors, political corruption, and legal culture / Paulina Polak and David Nelken -- Notaries in Central Europe : form state employment to professional independence : a rocky path / Gisela Shaw -- Multiple transitions to the EU constitutional project : the case of Eastern European legal professions / Vittorio Olgiati.