Zdenek Kuhn’s scientific contributions

In May 2004, ten new countries, all but two from Central and Eastern Europe, joined the EU. Suddenly, the European judiciary encompassed a panoply of courts which have just emerged from decades under communist rule. The problematic background of the post-communist judiciary discourages many legal experts. The soon to be European judges come from authoritarian and totalitarian traditions; they were trained under a centrally planned economy; and last but not least, many of them received a legal education which might be considered rather problematic from the Western view.