The objective of the project is to integrate the V4 academic community around the issues of the legal heritage of the socialistic period and to popularize joint research on this issue Some changes in legislation were so abrupt that they led to a break in continuity with pre-war law and made profound transformations in the situation of the individual. The individual experiences of many people may justify calling the legal heritage of this period particularly difficult. As part of the project, the international research team will compare the degree of Sovietization of the legal systems of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland after 1945. The use of the work of the international research team will allow to place the phenomenon of the law of the socialist period in the context of the "common" heritage of the legal culture of the Visegrad Group countries. In the dissemination of knowledge about the legal culture and identity of the V4 countries, an invaluable help will be the action of publishing post-conference monograph as well as translating selected legal regualtions from the socialistic period of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland into English and ensuring access to them in the IURA database (https://iura.uj.edu.pl). 

 

 

 

The project ‘(Dis)continuity of Legal Systems in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland after WWII: Difficult Heritage’ is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe. Visegrad Grant No. 22330152.