Transition? To rule of law? Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice Challenged in Central & Eastern Europe

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TOWARDS A TRANSITION TO RULE OF LAW Radical Change and Unbalance of Law in a Central Europe under the Rule of Myths, not of Law [1996] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 1. Post-modernity Diagnosed [9] 2. Radical Change with Radical Uniformisation [10] 3. Some Symptoms [16] (a) Unpreparedness [17] (b) Utopianism [18] (c) Bibó-syndrome [19] (d) Between the West – and the West [21] 4. Brave New Start with Tradition Left Behind [23] Legal Scholarship at the Threshold of a New Millennium in the Central and Eastern European Region [1997] . . . . . . . . . . .26 (Naivety from the Beginning) [27] 1. (The Limits of Law-modernisation) [33] 2. (The Need for Scholarly Reconsideration) [34] 3. (Rebuilding the Social Contexture of Law) [36] 4. (Following Alien Patterns) [37] 5. (Want for Clarification) [42] 6. (New Unorganic Components) [46] (Past Legacy in Legal Experience and Scholarship [46]) Rule of Law: Imperfectly Realised, or Perfected without Realisation? [2000] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1. Declarations [50] 2. Question-marks [54] Rule of Law – at the Crossroads of Challenges [2001] . . . . . . . . . . . 59 (Law: Values & Techniques [59] Human-centeredness and Practical Orientation [66] Theological and Anthropological Foundations [74] An Irreplaceably Own Task [80] Recapitulation [81] A Final Remark in Comparison [82]) Rule of Law, or the Dilemma of an Ethos: to be Gardened or Mechanicised [2007] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 I (Two Models for Transition, Post-WWII and Post-Communism) [85] II (With Differing Understandings) [91] III (What is to Remain if the Peak is Shaken?) [95] IV (Circus Trainer, or a Gardener?) [98] V (The German Master v. the Hungarian Disciple) [100] THE BURDEN OF THE PAST Why Having Failed in Facing with the Past? [2003] . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Creeping Renovation of Law through Constitutional Judiciary? [2005] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 1. Transitions in the Age of Globalisation [117] 2. Constitutional Assessment: the Hungarian Way [122] 3. An Example: Human Dignity in Isolation and Sterility [133] 4. Public Law Privatised with the State Targeted as a Common Enemy [138] 5. A Future with no Past [146] 6. Legality with Justice Silenced: Crimes and Unpunishment [147] 7. Rule of Constitutional Court Dicta, not of Law [154] 8. A Sliding Self-image [157] What Has Happened and What Is Happening ever Since (In Remembrance of Deportations to Forced Work Camps at Hortobágy) [2005] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161 (Preliminaries to a Betrayal [161] “Deportation” with Consequences [165] “Deportation” with no Silence Broken Since [168] Considerations on How to Treat the Past after the Communism has Fallen [171] Cul-de-sac as Assessed even by Liberal Standards [175]) 1956 Judged by Ethics and Law, or the Moral Unity of the Law’s Responsiveness as a Post-totalitarian Dilemma [2006] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178 (Law and its Socio-ethical Basis [178] The Necessity of an Ethical Minimum in Law [185] The Drama of 1956 [187] The Shame of Posterity for the Law getting Silenced [192]) PERSPECTIVES Failed Crusade: American Self-confidence, Russian Catastrophe [2002] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199 (1. The Pattern-provider and its Transitology [199] 2.a. Organised Pressure on Making Patterns Followed [202] 2.b. Provoked Bankruptcy [206] 2.c. Cui prodest? [210] 2.d. Democracy Conceived in Tutelage [214] 3. Becoming a Pray of Globalism [216]) “Radical Evil” on Trial [2002] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220 A. Historical Background [222] B. Normative Dimensions [225] a) Political Aspects [225] b) Moral Aspects [227] c) Legal Aspects [227] Rule of Law between the Scylla of Imported Patterns and the Charybdis of Actual Realisations (The Experience of Lithuania) [2004] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236 Transitology Questioned [236] Lithuania [238] (Ideal: Law & Balance [239] Ideal: Rights Counterbalanced by Duties [241] Anything Except to Democracy in Outcome [242] Legal Personalism as a Response [246]) A Call for Local Experience Assessed [246] WHAT CAN BE HOPED FOR NOW? In Bondage of Paradoxes, or Deadlock at the Peak of the Law we have Created for Ourselves [2007] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251 (A ‘Good’ Constitution [251] With Moral Crisis behind It [254] In Want of Legal Defence Available [259]) At the Crossroads of Civil Obedience and Civil Disobedience [2007] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262 (Civil Disobedience [262] Civil Obedience [267]) Subject index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273 Index of Normative Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283 Name index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284 Bibliography of CSABA VARGA’s further books . . . . . . . . . . . . .290