Privacy in post-communist Europe
Given at the Social Research Conference on Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, which was held at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, on March, 23 – 24, 2001Professor Sajo was a guest editor and the director of the conference.
A Note from the Conference Convenor
The article presents a perspective on the issue of privacy in Eastern Europe. It implies that privacy was unprotected and is highly complicated under the conditions of postcommunism. It explains that distortion of the public sphere such as lack of transparency, skewed and monopolized public distortion are aggravated by attempts of penetrating into privacy in the name of public community values. A systematic discussion by the Social Research Privacy conference held at Central European University on March 23-24, 2001 helped clarify certain crucial policy-relevant issues such as providing civic education for the development of a more responsive citizenry, data protection and access to information and citing the limits and responsibilities of journalism.
Constitutional Law in Twenty Years from Now
The principles of constitutional law as those of many other disciplines seem to develop and to be replaced by new paradigms in the light of globalization. The present article using the genre of constitutional futurology attempts to determine whether this change is real or an illusory impression, and to predict the future of constitutional law and of scholarship reflecting on constitutional issues. A mighty forecast emerges from the interplay of opposing forces. While the withering away of the constitutionalist paradigm is unlikely partly because of the lack of a new generation of legal scholars following new patterns of thinking, partly because there is no reason to assume that the prevalent socioeconomic order would cease to exist , the essay maps a number of possible challenges like genetic engineering or personal computers interconnected in the World Wide Web , which constitutionalists shall expect to face in theory and in practice alike.
Book review
This article reviews the book "Privatizing the Police State, the Case of Poland" by M. Los and A.Zybertowic.
Traditions of corruption, Corruption and democracy. Political institutions, processes and corruption in transition states in East-Central Europe and in the former Soviet Union
This article was presented in a conference organized bythe Institute for Constitutional and Legislative Policy, Budapest, January 28-29,1994
Contemporary problems of the judiciary in Hungary
This article was presented in the proceedings of the International Colloquium of the International Association of Legal Science, 3 – 6 September 1991
The judiciary in contemporary society: Hungary
Views the present problems of the Hungarian judiciary in the context of social transition from state-socialism to democracy and the rule of law system. Functions of the court; Consequences of judicial dysfunctions; How judges are recruited; Education of judges; Tasks of judges; Some remarks on the problems of the judiciary in the social transition to democracy.