Constitutional Identities in Central and Eastern Europe

Acknowledgements ................................................................................................. 7

List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................... 9

Part I Central and Eastern Europe Reexamined: The 'CEE Forum'

Alexandra Mercescu

Introduction: From Country to Country, From Time to Time,

Questions and Answers of Self and Other .......................................................... 13

Balázs Fekete

The (First) Ten Years of the CEE-Forum: Timeline, Data and

Assessment .............................................................................................................. 25

Part II Constitutional Identities: Theoretical Frameworks

Jirí Pribán interviewed by Karel Hvízdala

In Quest of Democratic Values and Identities in Central European

Constitutionalism: on the Post-1989 Histories and Politics in the Czech

Republic ................................................................................................................... 37

Zoltán Szente

The Constitutional Identity Conundrum ............................................................ 59

Martin Belov

Constitutional Identity Westphalian Reflection of the Constitutional

Heritage of the Nation State or Post-Westphalian Alternative to

Sovereignty in the Context of Supranational Constitutionalism? ................... 73

Sorina Doroga

Understanding Constitutional Identity Through the Language of Courts ......... 91

Mario Kresic

Legal Consciousness and the (De)constitutionalization

of the Legal Order .................................................................................................. 117
Part III Constitutional Identities: Regional Self-Questionings

Alexandra Mercescu teaches comparative public law at the West University of Timisoara. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory (Wroclaw University). Her PhD, obtained from Sorbonne University, was published as Pour une comparaison des droits indisciplinée with the Swiss publisher Helbing Lichtenhahn.