Constitutional Identities in Central and Eastern Europe

Alexandra Mercescu teaches comparative public law at the West University of Timisoara. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory (Wroclaw University). Her PhD, obtained from Sorbonne University, was published as Pour une comparaison des droits indisciplinée with the Swiss publisher Helbing Lichtenhahn.

• Acknowledgements ................................................................................................. 7List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................... 9Part I Central and Eastern Europe Reexamined: The ‘CEE Forum’Alexandra MercescuIntroduction: From Country to Country, From Time to Time,Questions and Answers of Self and Other .......................................................... 13Balázs FeketeThe (First) Ten Years of the CEE-Forum: Timeline, Data andAssessment .............................................................................................................. 25Part II Constitutional Identities: Theoretical FrameworksJiří Přibáň interviewed by Karel HvížďalaIn Quest of Democratic Values and Identities in Central EuropeanConstitutionalism: on the Post-1989 Histories and Politics in the CzechRepublic ................................................................................................................... 37Zoltán SzenteThe Constitutional Identity Conundrum ............................................................ 59Martin BelovConstitutional Identity ・ Westphalian Reflection of the ConstitutionalHeritage of the Nation State or Post-Westphalian Alternative toSovereignty in the Context of Supranational Constitutionalism? ................... 73Sorina DorogaUnderstanding Constitutional Identity Through the Language of Courts ......... 91Mario KrešicLegal Consciousness and the (De)constitutionalizationof the Legal Order .................................................................................................. 117Part III Constitutional Identities: Regional Self-QuestioningsFlaminia Stârc-MeclejanEnvironmental Legal Consciousness in Romania:Beyond Roșia Montană .......................................................................................... 137Przemysław TacikPolish Constitutional Identity under the Illiberal Turn .................................... 157Mirosław Michał SadowskiCentral Europe in the Search of (Lost) Identity. The Illiberal Swerve ............. 173Stefan Andonović and Uroš BajovićThe Role of Independent Control Bodies in Shaping ConstitutionalIdentity ..................................................................................................................... 195Lucian Bojin and Alexandra MercescuProtests in Romania: Civil Society, Populism andCivic Constitutionalism ......................................................................................... 209List of Figures .......................................................................................................... 225Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................... 227Index of Names ....................................................................................................... 233Index of Notions ..................................................................................................... 237