In the Article 1(1) the Slovak Constitution declares that „the Slovak Republic shall not be bound to any ideology or religion“. Presented article seeks to examine the relationship concerned of independence of state from any particular religion that is referred to as a principle of confessional state neutrality in legal sciences. The article covers its historical as well as theoretical interactions, and it pays particular attention to role of confessional state neutrality in judicature of the European Court of Human Rights.
The submitted contribution focuses on the status of Roman law in the context of socialist jurisprudence. It tries to analyse various theories of Marxist ideologists and Romanists on the effectiveness and importance of the Roman law in socialist society, based on which it finds a characteristics of the relationship between Roman law and socialism. In this context the article also addresses the characteristics and goals of the socialist legal Romance as a specific school which had a tendency to separate itself from so-called „Bourgeois" schools examining Roman law.
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