Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 103

Title

Records of Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute

Date(s)

1956 - 1997

Description Level

Fonds

Extent and medium (processed)

85 Archival boxes, 10.62 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)

Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute at OSI-Budapest

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The predecessor of the Open Society Justice Initiative (http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice), COLPI was a multi-project program meant to inform, assist and sponsor the constitutional, legal and police reforms and consequently facilitate the establishment of rule of law in the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Materials include correspondence, draft constitutions, constitutional court decisions and other legal documents, as well as experts' reports, background material and specific articles on various countries, and COLPI working papers and publications.

Geographically, the materials cover mostly the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, some Asian countries of transitional democracy, and there is small amount of material on Western democracies, too. The other distinctive feature of the collection is that territories, which are seeking for their independence or have at least some characteristics of a sovereign state, are regarded separately from the state where they belonged at the time the project or in the present days.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Open for research

Languages

English, German, Italian, Russian

Description Control

Archivist's note

Arranged by Olena Kuchynska in February 2003; described in April 2008; revised by Csaba Szilagyi, March 2010.