The Authoritarian Legal Culture at Work: The Passivity of Parties and the Interpretational Statements of Supreme Courts

The purpose of this paper is to show that several rarely discussed features of the legal culture in Central and Eastern Europe distinguish this region from its Western counterpart. First, there is the misunderstanding of the classical Continental principle of Iura novit curia, the maxim which tells...

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Main Author: Zdenek Kuhn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law 2006-12-01
Series:Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy
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Online Access:https://www.cyelp.com/index.php/cyelp/article/view/12