Legal symbolism on law, time and European identity - Přibáň, Jiří 1967- (Ashgate, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) index
Constitution-making and the symbolic rationality of law : a systemic differentiation of law, politics and morality -- The symbolic evolution of political identity from the spirit of the law -- Law and the symbolization of time : the limits of dealing with the past and future -- Civil and ethnic traditions and identities : post-communist constitution-making in Central Europe -- Identity, constitution-making and the enlargement of the European Union -- The symbolic power of European law and search of European politics -- The retrospectivity of laws and the temporality of justice in post-communist Central Europe -- Moral paradoxes of legal justice : an analysis of restitutive and administrative dealing with the past -- On legal symbolism and social theory : concluding remarks