Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.

Cosmin Cercel is Associate Professor in Law at Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland.

Alexandra Mercescu is Assistant Professor at the West University of Timisoara, Romania.

Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski is Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland; Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for Global Studies, Alberta University in Lisbon, Portugal; Postdoctoral Researcher at CEBRAP - Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning in São Paulo, Brazil; Research Assistant at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.

Introduction. Central and Eastern Europe Between Law, Culture, Identity and Comparison Cosmin Cercel, Alexandra Mercescu and Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski Part I. Central and Eastern European Legal Cultures: Theorerical Perspectives 1. Foreign Law, the Comparatist, and Culture: How It Is Pierre Legrand 2. Central Europe: What's in a Name? Forging an Understanding of the Region as a Socio-Legal and a Socio-Political Space Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski 3. The Region Without Qualities: Fiction, International Law and the Internalised Irrelevance of Central and Eastern Europe Momchil Milanov 4. Judicial Formalism and Regional Legal Identity in Central and Eastern Europe Péter Cserne 5. Non-compliance with the European Court of Human Rights Judgments: Delineating the Features of Central and Eastern European Legal Identity Donatas Murauskas 6. Old Patterns Die Hard - The Idiosyncrasies of the Yugoslav Socialist Legal Tradition and the Problem of Continuity in the Western Balkans Denis Preshova and Nenad Markovikj 7. Constitutional Identity as Competing Historically Driven Narratives: Central and European Perspectives Manuel Gu¿an Part II. Central and Eastern European Legal Cultures: Case Studies 8. Eternity Clause as Agalma: Articulating Constitutional Identity in Romania and Latvia Cosmin Cercel and J¿nis Pleps 9. An Ancestry of Bridges: The Persistence of Legal Transplants in Croatia and Poland Hano Ernst, Miros¿aw Sadowski and Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski 10. The External influence on Constitutional Identity: Comparing Estonia and Serbia Katre Luhamaa, Merike Ristikivi and Marija Vlajkovi¿ 11. Historical Trajectories and Shared Destiny as a Basis for Common Legal Identity: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro Samir Fori¿, Marko Doki¿ and Danijela Vukovi¿-¿alasan 12. The Ever-Blurred Features of the Rule of Law: Albania and Bulgaria Rezarta Demneri and Anastas Punev 13. The Transfer of the Principle of Proportionality to the National Legal Order: The Cases of the Slovak Republic and Slovenia Tomáš Gábriš, Matej Horvat and Marko Novak 14. Guarantees for Linguistic Identity: Approaches of the Republic of Lithuania and of the Republic of Moldova Aist¿ Räkauskait¿-Burneikien¿, Saulius Katuoka and Teodor Papuc 15. Searching for Legal Identities through Narratives about the Habsburg Times: Czechia and Hungary Markéta Št¿páníková and Márton Matyasovszky-Németh Afterword. A Central and Eastern European Legal Culture? Cosmin Cercel, Alexandra Mercescu and Miros¿aw Michä Sadowski