The fifth volume in the series of the Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook addresses two major topics: law and state. The authors shed new light on some of the classical paradigms in the treatment of these highly prominent topics and offer novel proposals on how to best approach them. The contributions were presented and discussed at the 6 CEE Forum, held in 2014 at the Zagreb Faculty of Law (Croatia) and peer-reviewed by international experts in the field. The volume¿s six thematic parts reflect the main issues discussed: Law and State, Methodological Approaches, Language and Law, Constitutional and EU Law, Contemporary State, and State and Crisis.

Luka Burazin is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Department of General Theory of Law and State (Croatia).
¿or¿e Gardaševi¿ is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional Law (Croatia).
Alessio Sardo is Postdoctoral Researcher at Bocconi University, Department of Law (Italy).

Contents: Giovanni Battista Ratti: Law from a Logical Point of View. Three Basic Questions ¿ Michel Troper: The Emergence and Survival of the Modern State ¿ Monika Zalewska: Two Approaches to the Methodology of Legal Theory: Hans Kelsen and Jerzy Wróblewski ¿ Silvia Salardi: The Concept of «Human Nature»: An Attempt to Approach Law from an Essentialist Perspective? ¿ Alessio Sardo: Legal Philosophers, Meaning and Force ¿ Silvia Zorzetto: On Impossibility in Law ¿ Fruzsina Gáardos-Orosz: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: A Theoretical Approach ¿ Domenica Dreyer: The Substance and Effects of EU Law and Jurisprudence under the Social Constructivist Research Agenda ¿ Martin Belov: Can We Still Drive the State Machine the «Old School» Way? Structural and Functional Deficits of the Modern State ¿ Marco Stefano Birtolo: Privatising Law in Western, Multi-Faith and Multicultural Democracies ¿ Axelle Reiter: States of Crisis and Crises of the State: Redefining the Limits of National Sovereignty and State Powers in Times of Emergency ¿ Robin Caballero: Peacebuilding and Recognition of States: Failures of the International Territorial Administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.