All Resources: The Evolving Legal Framework in the Former Socialist Countries

Katharina Pistor

Online Resources

CEESource: Central and East European legal, political, business and economics resources at Gonzaga Law School

The Russian and Eastern European Network Information Center (REENIC), a collection of links to websites with information about East and Central Europe, Russia, and the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union. REENIC is supported by the University of Texas at Austin.

The Slavic-Eurasian Studies Web, including large directories of web sites on Central & Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and statistical resources and databases.

Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia: Co-sponsored by OECD and USAID and features information on anti-corruption programs and initiatives in the countries of the former Soviet Union information on events and training and reference materials (in English and Russian).

The European Commission's page on South East Europe

Bibliographical Material

Berkowitz, Dan, Katharina Pistor, and Jean-Francois Richard. "Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect." European Economic Review (2002), forthcoming.

Boycko, Maxim, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny. Privatizing Russia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Coffee, Jack C., Jr. "Privatization and Corporate Governance: The Lessons from Securities Market Failure." Journal of Corporation Law 25 (1999): 1-39.

La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny. "Law and Finance." Journal of Political Economy 106:6 (1998): 1113-1155.

Murrell, Peter, ed. Assessing the Value of Law in Transition Economies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Pistor, Katharina, Martin Raiser, and Stanislav Gelfer. "Law and Finance in Transition Economies." The Economics of Transition 8:2 (2000): 325-368.

Weber, Max. General Economic History. Social Science Classics Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1981.