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Title:Central Europe as a legal phenomenon
Authors:ID Avbelj, Matej, Nova univerza (Author)
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Language:English
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:EVRO-PF - Nova Univerza - European Faculty of Law
Abstract:This article argues that Central Europe is not just a cultural but also a legal phenomenon. This is made explicit if law is approached through the integral conception of law, defended here. Pursuant to this conception: law is an institutional normative order that is both highly dependent on the (legal) culture, which it simultaneously frames. It is argued that history has inflicted many pathologies on the Central European culture and consequently on the law too. These pathologies, briefly illustrated on the Slovenian example, form part of the broader Central European legal malaise. This can be addressed successfully only through the veritable regional cooperation of Central European countries that partake of these legal challenges. To do so, an appropriate forum is needed. The Visegrad Group comes across as a natural and best suited candidate. However, due to its self-conceived political exclusivity this option appears to be foreclosed. Paradoxically, in so doing, the Visegrad Group is defeating the very objectives for which it has been created. The article thus concludes that the Visegrad Group has to enlarge to stay faithful to its own values, which also, and in the first place, mandate the eradication of the Central European legal malaise.
Publication date:01.10.2015
Year of publishing:2015
Year of performance:2015
Number of pages:str. 53-66
Numbering:Vol. 7, no. 2
Source:European perspectives : journal on European perspectives of the Western Balkans
PID:20.500.12556/ReVIS-11828 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:84624641 New window
UDC:341(497.4)
ISSN on article:1855-7694
Publication date in ReVIS:23.06.2025
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Title:European perspectives : journal on European perspectives of the Western Balkans
Publisher:Center for European perspective, Center for European perspective, International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan studies
ISSN:1855-7694
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Language:Slovenian
Abstract:Srednja Evropa ni le kulturni, ampak je tudi pravni pojav. To trditev najbolje utemelji integralno pojmovanje prava, ki ga zastopa ta prispevek. V skladu z njim je pravo institucionalni normativni sistem, ki je odvisen od (pravne) kulture, ki jo hkrati uokvirja. Prispevek izhaja iz predpostavke, da je zgodovina pustila veliko brazgotin na obrazu srednjeevropske kulture, s tem pa tudi na njenem pravu. Te brazgotine, ki so v obliki pravnih patologij, ilustrirane na primeru Slovenije, predstavljajo del širše evropske pravne malaise. Z njo se je mogoče spopasti le z ustreznim regionalnim sodelovanjem vseh srednjeevropskih držav v okviru za to primernih forumov. Višegrajska skupina se v tem pogledu ponuja kot najboljša kandidatka. Vendar pa se zdi, da zaradi lastne politične samo-ekskluzivnosti v naprej odklanja to možnost. Tako smo soočeni s paradoksom, da politična zasnova višegrajske skupine v naprej onemogoča dosežek prav tistih ciljev, za katere je bila ustanovljena. Višegrajska skupina tako potrebuje širitev, da bi ostala zvesta svojim vrednotam, med katere sodi tudi oblikovanje resnične vladavine prava, katere odsotnost je skupni srednjeevropski problem.
Keywords:Srednja Evropa, integralno pojmovanje prava, vladavina prava, demokracija, višegrajska skupina, Slovenija


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