
Peter CurosPolish Academy of Sciences | PAN · Instytut Studiow Politycznych
Peter Curos
Juris Doctor
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In Slovakia, we are witnessing something truly extraordinary. Within the first hundred days of the new administration, Slovakia has experienced a paradigmatic change in the penal codes, an attack on civil society organizations, an abolishment of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, a bill for a limitation of the whistleblower protection, and politiciza...
This chapter deals with the Constitutional Court in Slovakia. It explains the predecessor institutions, the Court’s institutional foundation, its competences and its relevance in the establishment of state institutions. Finally, the particular and ambiguous role the Court has been playing in the Slovak legal system is shown, based on institutions-s...
This article offers an opening to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) situation and attacks against the judiciary in this region since 2010. The focus is not primarily on historical path dependence like the rest of thisissue. Instead, the focus aims at the nature of attacks on the judiciary. Such attacks have appeared inCEE and the US in recent years....
On the Missing Discourse Concerning Legal Professions. This paper elaborates on the
reasons behind the recently uncovered legal crisis in Slovakia. I submit that the perceived
crisis stems from a low level of discipline within the legal professions, which itself results
from the limited discourse on the role of these professions in society. The con...
Is it possible to distinguish whether a government is willing to eliminate its accountability or aims for public trust or efficacy growth? Moreover, which elements in the government’s actions differentiate valid criticism from an attack on the independence of the judiciary? This paper proposes an original approach toward recognizing an attack on th...
This chapter is explaining the institutional approach in Legal Ethics education. The author is using his experience of creating and teaching the Legal Ethics mandatory course in Slovakia at Pavol Jozef Šafárik in 2016-2019.
The proposed approach is a reaction to the flaws of the “textualist” approach that is characteristic for Central and Eastern...
This article offers an opening to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) situation and attacks against the judiciary in this region since 2010. The focus is not primarily on historical path dependence like the rest of this issue. Instead, the focus aims at the nature of attacks on the judiciary. Such attacks have appeared in CEE and the US in recent year...
This Article explores the similarities between the principles which guide the judiciary nowadays and those typical for the functioning of the Communist justice system, particularly the susceptibility to obedience to the requests, orders, or meeting anticipations. The habitus of the judges typical for the authoritarian regime has persisted until the...