The legacy of the Velvet Revolution in law within the amendment and recodification of substantive civil and criminal law
2021
Abstract
After defining the values of the Velvet Revolution in contemporary Czech law, Jindřich Špergl examines the process of preparing two new substantive codifications: the Criminal Code and the Civil Code. In particular, the study of parliamentary debates seeks to determine the extent to which the image of the 1980s has influenced the debate on these codifications and their adoption, and whether these debates have even helped to bring the 1980s as a topic back into the public sphere.
The author points out, for example, one of the motivations of the supporters of the new codifications, which was the effort to rid the Czech legal system of the surviving communist relics.