University of Wrocław

English abstract: The main goal of the article is to conduct case studies of CEE memory policies introduced after the fall of communism and to present them as an interesting field for examining the instrumentalization of law. The primary research question is: Do several case studies of several memory policies implemented in post-communist states help to examine the theoretical concept of the instrumentalization of law? In this paper, I intend to show the hidden potential of such studies. I present some of the specific elements of new constitutionalization attempts in CEE, which included narratives of memory in several constitutions in the region. I also show their relation to the concept of instrumentalization of law. Finally, I describe some political acts of instrumentalization of law in the field of collective memory.

Keywords: instrumentalization of law, memory policies, collective memory, legal petrification of the past

Language: English

Published: Number 3(21)/2019, pp. 40-50.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2019.3.40

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