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• Contents: The rule of law after Communism: an introduction, Martin Krygier and Adam Czarnota. The Rule of Law: Legal cultures and the rule of law, Philip Selznick; Positivist or non-positivist rule of law?: Polish experience of a general dilemma, Lech Morawski; Rules of law: the complexity of legality in Hungary, Antal Örkény and Kim Scheppele; Institutional Optimism, cultural pessimism and the rule of law, Martin Krygier. Constitutionalism: Traditional elements in the constitutions of Central and East European democracies, Péter Paczolay; The paradigm of constitutionalism - the Hungarian experience, Vilmos Sós; Paradigm lost? The constitutional process in Poland and the hope of a grass roots constitutionalism, Grazyna Skapska; Rights and freedoms under the new Polish constitution, Wojciech Sadurski. Dealing with the Past: Can we do justice to the past?, Adam Czarnota and Piotr Hofmanski; Lustration and decommunization: ethical and theoretical debates, Andrzej Kaniowski; Lustration or the Czech way of screening, Jirina Siklová. Crime: Is revolution a solution?: state crime in Communist and post-Communist Poland (1980-1995) Maria Los and Andrzej Zybertowicz; Social transformation and crime: a crisis of deregulation, Suzanne Karstedt. The International Dimension: The collapse of totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe and the international rule of law, Dencho Georgiev.