Fonds DescriptionThe 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.
Fonds DescriptionThe 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.