This is the second time that legal historians from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Szeged will participate in an international research team supported by Visegrad Grant. The main topic of the project, which was carried out between 2021-2022, was the comparative study of the development of Polish, Czech and Hungarian legal systems between the interwar period. The consortium project "(Dis)continuity of Legal Systems in Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland after WWII: Difficult Heritage", launched in February 2024, focuses on the Sovietisation of the legal systems of Central and Eastern European countries, but the methodology remains the same, as the socialist legislation will be studied using comparative methodology.

The commitments of the project concentrate on the territory of „Culture and Common Identity and consist of three main pillars:

1. The production of an English-language collection of legal sources from the Czechoslovakian, Hungarian and Polish legal systems from 1945-1989, and their publication in the IURA online database.
2. A series of online open-access lectures about the legal system and legislative processes in the socialist period.
3. A conference and volume of papers under "Continuity and Discontinuity of Legal Systems after World War II in Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland: Difficult Heritage (1944/1945-1989") title.

The title of the project:

(Dis)continuity of Legal Systems in Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland after WWII: Difficult Heritage.

The participants of the project:

Jagellonian University (Cracow): Prof. Dr. Maciej Mikula (project leader), Dr. Katarzyna Krzysztofek-Strazala, Dr. Jakob Maziarz, Dr. Zdzislaw Zarzycki, Dr. Marek Strzala, Dr. Pawel Kazmierski

University of Bialystok: Dr. hab. Piotr Fiedorczyk

University of Trnava: Prof. Dr. Tomás Gabris (consortium leader), Prof. Dr. Miriam Laclavíková, Dr. Adriana Svecová, Dr. Peter Vysny, Dr. Ingrid Lanczová

University of Szeged: Prof. Dr. Mária Homoki-Nagy, Dr. Norbert Varga (consortium leader), Dr. Máté Pétervári, Dr. Dénes Legeza, Dr. Benedek Varga

University of West Bohemia (Pilsen): Dr. Vilém Knoll, (consortium leader) Dr. Stanislav Balík, Dr. Petr Dostalík, Dr. Tomás Pezl, Dr. Jundrich Psutka

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