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Acknowledgements The authors wrote their chapters for the purpose of this volume. Earlier , most of the contributors had discussed the Hungarian constitutional transformation at international conferences and workshops. They learned a great deal from the papers, presentations, and comments that, hopefully, have much improved their chapters. Christian Boulanger organized a workshop at the Law and Society Institute of Humboldt University, Berlin (January 19, 2011), entitled The Hungarian Constitutional Crisis and European Constitutional Standards , where Christoph Möllers and Catherine Dupré commented the lectures from Kriszta Kovács and Gábor Attila Tóth. The German Sociology of Law Associations held their 2nd Congress at the University of Vienna (September 9, 2011), where Oliver W. Lembcke, Kriszta Kovács, Tamás Szigeti, and Gábor Attila Tóth discussed the topic in the panel Kampf um die Ungarische Verfassung (Struggle for the Hungarian Constitution). Gábor Attila Tóth gave a lecture entitled Hungary’s Constitutional Transformation from a Central European Comparative Perspective at the conference of the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance and Thammasat University, Bangkok (February 25, 2012). The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society and the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford organized a lecture of János Kis with the title Constitution-making in Two Stages held at the Central European University (March 24, 2011). The Rule of Law Center and Humboldt University, Berlin invited Kis for a lecture and discussion about the Hungarian constitutional change (May 12, 2011). Kim Lane Scheppele examined the legality of Hungary’s new constitution in her lecture The Unconstitutional Constitution at the Central xvi Acknowledgements European University (January 31, 2012) with a comment from Renáta Uitz. The Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs organized a discussion on Hungary’s Constitutional Revolution with the panelists Kim Lane Scheppele, Jan-Werner Müller, Paul Krugman, Gábor Halmai, Miklós Haraszti, and Miklós Bánkuti (February 14, 2012). Ronald Dworkin’s essay is a lightly edited transcript of his talk given at the Central European University (January 27, 2011). Zsolt Körtvélyesi thanks all those who commented on his paper during the preparation: Mónika Ganczer, Balázs Majtényi, Szabolcs Pogonyi, and Anny Stoikova. Catherine Dupré acknowledges the important support of the Leverhulme Trust which awarded her a Research Fellowship in 20102011 . She thanks Kriszta Kovács, Atina Krajewska, and Stephen Skinner for their comments, suggestions, and clarification of a number of footnotes. Christian Boulanger and Oliver W. Lembcke are grateful to Virág Zsugyó for her research assistance. Their German paper was translated into English by Jim C. Wagner. Sándor Radnóti’s chapter is a translation from Hungarian by Judit Pokoly. Miklós Bánkuti translated the Transitional Provisions and the Second Amendment of the Fundamental Law. Kriszta Kovács translated the First Amendment of the Fundamental Law. Gábor Attila Tóth is grateful to Susanne Baer for valuable suggestions during his DAAD research fellowship at Humboldt University . He thanks Nenad Dimitrijevic, Jacques Ziller, and one anonymous reader who reviewed the manuscripts and offered very beneficial critical comments. He thanks, also, Christopher Marcisz for acting as copy editor for this volume. ...

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