How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book defines and examines new autonomous differences adopted at the state and the supranational level in the post-transitional phase of the post-Communist area, and considers their impact on constitutions, democracy and legal culture.

Introduction; Part 1 The Constitutional Framework; Chapter 1 Constituting the Heterarchy of European Constitutionalism in the EU’s New Member States, Ji?íP?ibá?; Chapter 2 Legal Cultures in Transition, AlbertoFebbrajo; Chapter 3 Democratic Ethics, Constitutional Dimensions and ‘Constitutionalisms’, PaulBlokker; Chapter 4 Constitutional Courts and Constitutional Culture in Central and Eastern European Countries, WojciechSadurski; Chapter 5 Constitutional Culture and the Theory of Adjudication, DanielSmilov; Chapter 6 Settling Accounts with the Past, the Conceptualization of Difference and the Dilemmas of the Law-governed State, Gra?ynaSk?pska; Part 2 The Legal Professions; Chapter 7 The Democratization and Modernization of Post-communist Judiciaries, Zden?kKühn; Chapter 8 Bureaucratic and Managerial Cultures in Central Eastern European Courts, DanielaPiana; Chapter 9 Polish Prosecutors, Political Corruption, and Legal Culture, PaulinaPolak, DavidNelken; Chapter 10 Notaries in Central Europe, GiselaShaw; Chapter 11 Multiple Transitions to the EU Constitutional Project, VittorioOlgiati;