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) Bibo-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 Cardener? ............................. 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
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