Report from the Webinar “Difficult Heritage: the Interwar Codification Movement in Central and Eastern Europe (1918–1939)” – 7 October 2021

Abstract

On October 7, 2021, an English-language workshop was held in the form of a webinar, organized as part of the research project entitled “Continuity and Discontinuity of Pre-war Legal Systems in Post-war Successor States (1918–1939)”. The project was financed by the International Visegrad Fund (project website: http://www.wyznaniowe.law.uj.edu. pl/visegrad, accessed: 30.09.2021) 1 . The webinar was co-organized by Dr. Hab. Maciej Mikuła, Professor of the Department of the Ecclesiastical Law and Law on Religious Denominations at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in cooperation with Prof. Tomáš Gábriš (University of Trnava), Dr. Vilém Knoll (University of West Bohemia in Plzeň) and Dr. Hab. Norbert Varga (University of Szeged). During the webinar, a comparative analysis of codification movements in the interwar period in three countries of the contemporary Visegrad Group (Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary) was undertaken. The project participants were researchers from four academic centres representing the University of Szeged (Hungary), the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), the University of Trnava (Slovakia), and the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň (Czechia). The webinar also crowned one of the tasks of the project, consisting in the translation into English of selected legal acts adopted in the years 1918–1939 in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary (available on the “IURA. Sources