Petr Agha’s research and teaching focus on foundational issues and challenges in contemporary law and politics. Petr holds a PhD in Law and Criminology from the University of Antwerp. He has several publications and is the editor of various volumes in his field.Jan Géryk is a researcher at the Center for Theoretical Study and the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in the theory, philosophy and sociology of law.

• Petr Agha and Jan Géryk: Introduction: Political Imaginaries in Central and Eastern European Modernity — Krzysztof Katkowski: The Nobleman’s Paradigm? Analyzing the Polish Socialist Legal Theories in the Age of Empires: The Cases of Stanisław Brzozowski and Leon Petrażycki — Petr Ťoupalík: The Last Cleric of Olomouc: Josef Ludvík Fischer — Peter Čuroš: Utopian Plans and the Stalinist Way to Socialism in Czechoslovakia — Márton Matyasovszky- Németh: Human Rights in East- Central Europe: The Last Utopia or Another Failed Reform Attempt? — Piotr Załęski: The Legalist Utopia of the Polish Transformation — Sara Smyczek- Gołębiewska: Equity: A Utopia or a Threat to Legal Certainty — Aleksandra Samonek: The New European Identity and Its Reception in Central andEastern Europe — Katalin Izsák- Somogyi: Victims and/ or Perpetrators? The Founding Myths of Modern Europein the Light of the Traumas of the 20th Century — Attila Antal: The Hungarian Authoritarian Populism and Exceptional Governance Before and After the Outbreak of the Pandemic — Notes on Contributors