ABSTRACT
In the emerging public domain of post-communist Central European countries, new
political identity was confronted with unjust political history. Law became one of the
most important discursive and integrative techniques. Prospective hopes and efforts
to (re)construct liberal democratic conditions and the rule of law were haunted by
past injustices, political oppression and violence. The emerging political and legal
structures and decision-making processes were trapped between the past and future.
