NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Volume 25 Number 2 Article 6 Spring 2000 Of Courts and Rights: Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Albania Emin S. Toro Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj Recommended Citation Emin S. Toro, Of Courts and Rights: Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Albania, 25 N.C. J. INT'L L. 485 (1999). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj/vol25/iss2/6 This Comments is brought to you for free and open access by Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Carolina Journal of International Law by an authorized editor of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Of Courts and Rights: Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Albania Cover Page Footnote International Law; Commercial Law; Law This comments is available in North Carolina Journal of International Law: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj/ vol25/iss2/6 Of Courts and Rights: Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Albania I. Introduction The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire have radically transformed the constitutional order of Eastern European countries and the former Soviet republics.' Democratic systems of government and respect for individual rights have replaced dictatorship and oppression. As a result, a flurry of drafting efforts during the last decade has brought into being a number of new constitutions, which drastically change the relationship between the people and the state.2 In a well-attended See, e.g., BELR. CONST., translated in 2 CONSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD I (Gisbert H.