Rights Before Courts A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommuni
This is a completely revised and updated second edition of Rights Before Courts (2005, paper edition 2008). This book carefully examines the most recent wave of the emergence and case law of activist constitutional courts: those that were set up after the
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Rights Before Courts A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe Second Edition
Rights Before Courts
Wojciech Sadurski
Rights Before Courts A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe Second Edition
Wojciech Sadurski University of Sydney Australia University of Warsaw Poland
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Preface to the Second Edition
When the first edition of this book appeared, it was about 15 years after the first transformations of what had been earlier known as the Soviet bloc: the democratic transitions which began in Poland, followed by the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the reunification of Germany, the “velvet revolution” in Czechoslovakia, the violent collapse of Communism in Romania, the round-table “pacted” change in Hungary, and the snowball effect that followed throughout the whole Eastern part of the Continent. Now as I am writing these words, preparations for the celebration of the 25th annivers
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