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The New East European Constitutional Courts, Herman Schwartz
The New East European Constitutional Courts, Herman Schwartz
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article will describe some aspects of the different tribunals in Russia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania, and will compare them with each other and with the U.S. Supreme Court. The first part will begin by explaining a few basic differences between the American and Continental systems of judicial review, and will then describe the functions of the new East European constitutional courts. The second part will use the decisions of the new Russian Constitutional Court to illustrate the new courts' exercise of authority, and will summarize the recent activities of a few other new constitutional courts.
Privatization And Foreign Investment In Czechoslovakia: The Legal Dimension, Vratislav Pechota
Privatization And Foreign Investment In Czechoslovakia: The Legal Dimension, Vratislav Pechota
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Essay is intended to outline the legal developments in Czechoslovakia since the November 1989 revolution, which ended forty-one years of Communist domination. The new era, inaugurated by the revolution, began with a painstaking search for a political and constitutional model and for a strategy of socio-economic development that would make the country's transition to democracy and prosperity as smooth and painless as possible.
Investing In Czechoslovakia, Richard Sumann
Investing In Czechoslovakia, Richard Sumann
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Students once asked the famous British Professor John Maynard Keynes about the long-term effects of his regulatory policies. His answer was that in the long run, we are all dead. We have quite a different philosophy. In the long run, we want to be all better off. And we understand that to be better off, it means the introduction of a market economy and a free, democratic society. Converting the rigid, centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe into flexible, efficient, motivated, market-oriented economies and societies may affect your future. In fact, it will affect Europe and the world …