Revolutions for the Future: May ´68 and the Prague Spring

0553691 - ÚSP 2022 RIV FR eng M - Monography Chapter
Kober, Jan
Endeavoring another Socialist Law: Legal Reformism in Czechoslovakia and its Significance.
Revolutions for the Future: May ´68 and the Prague Spring. Lyon: Suture Press, 2020 - (Ndiaye Beránková, J.; Hauser, M.; Nesbitt, N.), s. 196-213. ISBN 978-2-9569056-1-5
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/11
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68378122
Keywords : Czech Republic * Europe * socialist law * legal development * legal policy * legal history * legal reformism * Prague Spring
OECD category: Law

The chapter in the collective monograph deals with the topic of legal reformism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. The role of law and legal experts, as well as the structures of their activities gradually changed since the late 1950s. The chapter describes the main areas that can be considered as specific or particularly important for contemporary legal reformism, like theoretical and practical issues of structure of law, the legal reform introducing the councils of workers as well as the reforms aiming the democratization of the system in a way that preserves socialism and protects it not by police mechanisms but by constitution, law and courts. Although law plays a little visible role in today's images of the Prague Spring, in reality the role of legal reformists of the 1960s seems to be important.

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