Importing the Law in Post-Communist Transitions: The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity

by Catherine Dupré

This book, one of the very first monographs on the Hungarian Constitutional Court available in English, is a unique study of the birth of a new legal system after the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. It shows that the genesis of the new legal order was determined by massive Western involvement and an unprecedented movement of export/import of law. Anchored in a detailed comparative study of German and Hungarian constitutional case...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841131318
• ISBN13: 9781841131313
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"