About CEE Constitutional Heritage Research Group

The Central and Eastern European (CEE) Constitutional Heritage Research Group, based at the Jagiellonian University, is a group of scholars from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Latvia and Bulgaria. We focus our research on examining the role of the CEE countries in shaping a common European constitutional heritage based on national and regional constitutional traditions.

The concept of a common European constitutional heritage is trending and highly relevant for contemporary European states and their citizens, though also extremely puzzling. It is based on the premise that despite the cultural, religious, political, social and economic differences shaping the identity of European states and their societies, there are values shared by all of them, such as inviolable and inalienable human rights, human dignity, freedom, equality, democracy and the rule of law.

The research project is funded by Priority Research Area Heritage, Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University