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Выжила ли социалистическая правовая традиция? Взгляд из Польши
The dissolution of the Socialist Legal Family should not be identified with the
disappearance of the underlying Socialist Legal Tradition. The impact of the 45 years
of Actually Existing Socialism upon Polish legal culture is still significant. First of all,
there has been an almost uninterrupted continuity of legal instiutions (courts, legal
professions), and the system of legal education and judicial appointments furthers the
continuity of legal culture. Secondly, ultraformalism («hyperpositivism») associated
with the Socialist Legal Tradition in its post-Stalinist version remains the dominant
working legal thought in Poland. Thirdly, there are still many examples of normative
continuity, especially in procedural and substantive private law. On the basis of these
factors, it is possible to enquire whether the differences of legal style between the new
Central European member states of the EU and its old Western European member states
are sufficiently significant as to justify the identification of a Central European legal
family as the fifth legal family in the European Union (apart from the Common Law,
Romanic, Germanic and Scandinavian Legal Families).