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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 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 and constitutional culture in Central and Eastern European countries / Wojciech Sadurski -- Constitutional culture and the theory of adjudication : Ulysses as a constitutional justice / Daniel Smilov -- Settling accounts with the past, the conceptualization of difference and the dilemmas of the law-governed state / Grażyna Skapska -- The democratization and modernization of post-communist judiciaries / Zdeněk Kühn -- 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 : from 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.