Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019
Abstract
The study discusses one of the central elements of governance in the late socialist dictatorship, namely the legal system, its authoritarian practice and its expert reflection. It desribes the gradual legalization processes within the dictatorship and the clash of the regime's "socialist legalism" with the "dissident legalism" of the human rights opposition as important prerequisites for the peaceful, negotiated democratic revolution of 1989 as well as for the complex problem of the legal continuity.
The overall development of the jurisprudence discipline and its interconnection with contemporaneous forms of governance is illustrated on thge concrete example of the prominent scholar Viktor Knapp.