Publisher's Synopsis
"The last two decades changed the post-socialist legal orders both
quantitatively and qualitatively in such a manner, which can rarely be
experienced in history. Though some of its aspects have already been analyzed,
a comprehensive study of one of these legal orders in English is still
missing. This volume attempts to fill this gap by analyzing the transformation
of the Hungarian legal order between 1985 and 2005. It presents the
transformation of the Hungarian legal order from three different aspects.
Firstly, it analyzes concrete legal questions, like the constitutional
problems of accession to the European Union, dealing with the past, the status
law, the development of minority protection, and the relationship between
international and municipal law. Secondly, it tries to give a general
theoretical overview on the last 20 years – in the issues of law and politics,
law and economy, legitimacy of the Constitution, law importation, culture and
European integration, changes in legal thinking, and sociological and
criminological characteristics of the transition. Thirdly, it takes account of
changes in the established areas of Hungarian law and legal science – like
constitutional law, agricultural law, criminal law, criminal procedure,
consumer protection, environmental law, administrative law, financial law,
civil law, civil procedure and social law."
