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HU OSA 103
Fonds 103: Records of the Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute

Date(s) 1956-1997 (1973-1997)

Extent and medium 84 Archival boxes, 11 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute (COLPI)

Scope and content

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

System of arrangement

Conditions governing access Open for research

Language/scripts of material

English, German, Italian, Russian

Finding aids

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Olena Kuchynska in February 2003; described in April 2008 and revised in March 2010 by Csaba Szilagyi
Online version updated 6 January 2012
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