Michal Bobek is Professor of European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, and research fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law.

Have the judges and judicial authorities of countries that joined European Union during and after Big Ben of 2004 been able to cope with European law? And is European law being correctly applied in these countries? (...) has the 'Westernisation of the new Member State' been properly carried out, leading to the emergence of new democracies and free markets? It is to these questions that the twenty-two legal experts brought together to these dense pages, most of them from the 'new Europe', provide enlightening answers.

• Prologue: The Westernisation of the East and the Easternisation of the West Hans-W Micklitz1. Introduction: Revisiting the Transformative Power of Europe Michal BobekPart I: Judicial Reasoning2. Formalism in Judicial Reasoning: Is Central and Eastern Europe a Special Case? Péter Cserne3. EU Law and Central European Judges: Administrative Judiciaries in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Ten Years after Accession Marcin Matczak, Mátyás Bencze and Zdenek Kühn4. The Impact of EU Membership on Private Law Adjudication in Poland: A Case Study of the Polish Supreme Court’s Case Law on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Rafal Manko5. The Aversion to Judicial Discretion in Civil Procedure in Post-Communist Countries: Can the Influence ofEU Law Change it? Aleš Galic6. The Remains of the Authoritarian Mentality within the Slovene Judiciary Jan Zobec and Jernej Letnar Cernic7. From a Discourse on ‘Communist Legacy’ Towards Capacity Building to Better Manage the Rule of LawBoštjan ZalarPart II: Institutions and Procedures8. ‘Euro-products’ and Institutional Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils Michal Bobek and David Kosar9. The Impossibility of Being a National and a European Judge at the Same Time: Doctrinal Rifts BetweenHungarian and EU Administrative Law Marton Varju and András György Kovács10. Changes in the Level of the National Judicial Protection Under the EU Influence on the Example of the Polish Legal SystemNina Póltorak11. When David Teaches EU Law to Goliath: A Generational Upheaval in the Making Alexander Kornezov12. Who are the Actors Mobilising Discourse among Courts? Erhard Blankenburg13. Transformation in the Eye of the Beholder Matej AvbeljPart III: Constitutional Courts14. Invalidity of EU Law before the Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Court of Old Closure(s) or New Opening(s)? Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz15. Constitutional Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court: From the Lisbon Judgments to the Landtová Ultra Vires Controversy Jirí Pribán16. ‘Keeping the Faith’ : The Trials and Tribulations of the Hungarian Constitutional Court in Following its European Vocation Allan F Tatham17. Central and Eastern European Constitutional Courts Facing New Challenges: Ten Years of Experience Marek Safjan18. Conclusions: Of Form and Substance in Central European Judicial Transitions Michal Bobek

Michal Bobek is Professor of European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, and research fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law.

Have the judges and judicial authorities of countries that joined European Union during and after Big Ben of 2004 been able to cope with European law? And is European law being correctly applied in these countries? (...) has the 'Westernisation of the new Member State' been properly carried out, leading to the emergence of new democracies and free markets? It is to these questions that the twenty-two legal experts brought together to these dense pages, most of them from the 'new Europe', provide enlightening answers.

• Prologue: The Westernisation of the East and the Easternisation of the West Hans-W Micklitz1. Introduction: Revisiting the Transformative Power of Europe Michal BobekPart I: Judicial Reasoning2. Formalism in Judicial Reasoning: Is Central and Eastern Europe a Special Case? Péter Cserne3. EU Law and Central European Judges: Administrative Judiciaries in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Ten Years after Accession Marcin Matczak, Mátyás Bencze and Zdenek Kühn4. The Impact of EU Membership on Private Law Adjudication in Poland: A Case Study of the Polish Supreme Court’s Case Law on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Rafal Manko5. The Aversion to Judicial Discretion in Civil Procedure in Post-Communist Countries: Can the Influence ofEU Law Change it? Aleš Galic6. The Remains of the Authoritarian Mentality within the Slovene Judiciary Jan Zobec and Jernej Letnar Cernic7. From a Discourse on ‘Communist Legacy’ Towards Capacity Building to Better Manage the Rule of LawBoštjan ZalarPart II: Institutions and Procedures8. ‘Euro-products’ and Institutional Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils Michal Bobek and David Kosar9. The Impossibility of Being a National and a European Judge at the Same Time: Doctrinal Rifts BetweenHungarian and EU Administrative Law Marton Varju and András György Kovács10. Changes in the Level of the National Judicial Protection Under the EU Influence on the Example of the Polish Legal SystemNina Póltorak11. When David Teaches EU Law to Goliath: A Generational Upheaval in the Making Alexander Kornezov12. Who are the Actors Mobilising Discourse among Courts? Erhard Blankenburg13. Transformation in the Eye of the Beholder Matej AvbeljPart III: Constitutional Courts14. Invalidity of EU Law before the Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Court of Old Closure(s) or New Opening(s)? Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz15. Constitutional Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court: From the Lisbon Judgments to the Landtová Ultra Vires Controversy Jirí Pribán16. ‘Keeping the Faith’ : The Trials and Tribulations of the Hungarian Constitutional Court in Following its European Vocation Allan F Tatham17. Central and Eastern European Constitutional Courts Facing New Challenges: Ten Years of Experience Marek Safjan18. Conclusions: Of Form and Substance in Central European Judicial Transitions Michal Bobek

Michal Bobek is Professor of European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, and research fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law.

Have the judges and judicial authorities of countries that joined European Union during and after Big Ben of 2004 been able to cope with European law? And is European law being correctly applied in these countries? (...) has the 'Westernisation of the new Member State' been properly carried out, leading to the emergence of new democracies and free markets? It is to these questions that the twenty-two legal experts brought together to these dense pages, most of them from the 'new Europe', provide enlightening answers.

• Prologue: The Westernisation of the East and the Easternisation of the West Hans-W Micklitz1. Introduction: Revisiting the Transformative Power of Europe Michal BobekPart I: Judicial Reasoning2. Formalism in Judicial Reasoning: Is Central and Eastern Europe a Special Case? Péter Cserne3. EU Law and Central European Judges: Administrative Judiciaries in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Ten Years after Accession Marcin Matczak, Mátyás Bencze and Zdenek Kühn4. The Impact of EU Membership on Private Law Adjudication in Poland: A Case Study of the Polish Supreme Court’s Case Law on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Rafal Manko5. The Aversion to Judicial Discretion in Civil Procedure in Post-Communist Countries: Can the Influence ofEU Law Change it? Aleš Galic6. The Remains of the Authoritarian Mentality within the Slovene Judiciary Jan Zobec and Jernej Letnar Cernic7. From a Discourse on ‘Communist Legacy’ Towards Capacity Building to Better Manage the Rule of LawBoštjan ZalarPart II: Institutions and Procedures8. ‘Euro-products’ and Institutional Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils Michal Bobek and David Kosar9. The Impossibility of Being a National and a European Judge at the Same Time: Doctrinal Rifts BetweenHungarian and EU Administrative Law Marton Varju and András György Kovács10. Changes in the Level of the National Judicial Protection Under the EU Influence on the Example of the Polish Legal SystemNina Póltorak11. When David Teaches EU Law to Goliath: A Generational Upheaval in the Making Alexander Kornezov12. Who are the Actors Mobilising Discourse among Courts? Erhard Blankenburg13. Transformation in the Eye of the Beholder Matej AvbeljPart III: Constitutional Courts14. Invalidity of EU Law before the Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Court of Old Closure(s) or New Opening(s)? Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz15. Constitutional Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court: From the Lisbon Judgments to the Landtová Ultra Vires Controversy Jirí Pribán16. ‘Keeping the Faith’ : The Trials and Tribulations of the Hungarian Constitutional Court in Following its European Vocation Allan F Tatham17. Central and Eastern European Constitutional Courts Facing New Challenges: Ten Years of Experience Marek Safjan18. Conclusions: Of Form and Substance in Central European Judicial Transitions Michal Bobek