Rafał Mańko – författare

This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).Against the backdrop of weak institutional traditions, frequent and profound transformations, and deep historical traumas affecting the law, politics, economy and society in the region, the book critically examines the entanglements of legality in the region’s transformation from state socialism to neoliberalism and Western-style democracy. Drawing on critical legal theory, as well as legal history, legal theory, sociology of law, history of ideas, anthropology of law, comparative law, and constitutional theory, the book goes beyond conventional analyses to offer an in-depth account of this important contemporary phenomenon.This book will be of interest to legal researchers, especially of a critical or socio-legal perspective, political scientists, sociologists and (legal) historians, as well as policy makers seeking to understand the regional specificity and deeper roots of Central and Eastern European illiberal populism.

This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).Against the backdrop of weak institutional traditions, frequent and profound transformations, and deep historical traumas affecting the law, politics, economy and society in the region, the book critically examines the entanglements of legality in the region’s transformation from state socialism to neoliberalism and Western-style democracy. Drawing on critical legal theory, as well as legal history, legal theory, sociology of law, history of ideas, anthropology of law, comparative law, and constitutional theory, the book goes beyond conventional analyses to offer an in-depth account of this important contemporary phenomenon.This book will be of interest to legal researchers, especially of a critical or socio-legal perspective, political scientists, sociologists and (legal) historians, as well as policy makers seeking to understand the regional specificity and deeper roots of Central and Eastern European illiberal populism.

More than three decades after the fall of state socialism, certain legal institutions forged during the socialist period continue to shape private law across Central and Eastern Europe. This volume identifies and analyses case studies of 'legal survivals' — legal forms which, though created under state socialism, endured the political, socio-economic, and cultural upheaval of the 1989 transformation and remain operative within contemporary capitalist legal orders. Building on the insights of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Karl Renner into the persistence of legal forms beyond the conditions that produced them, the book develops and applies a theory of 'nomostasis' — a term coined from the Greek nomos (law) and stasis (persistence) — to denote the endurance of old legal forms after revolution, transition, or other profound societal change. Although legal survivals are familiar in legal cultures founded on long traditions, such as the common law or Roman-law-based civil law, the vestiges of twentieth-century state socialism have received only scattered scholarly attention. Bringing together sociologists of law, legal historians, and comparative lawyers, the volume reveals remarkable continuities in institutions of property, family, and contract law across the region, and raises fresh questions about the wider relationship between law, society, and the economy.This book will appeal to sociologists of law, comparative lawyers, and legal theorists, as well as to political scientists and area studies specialists working on Central and Eastern Europe.