Srovnání ústavních listin republik středoevropských – Kober Jan (2022)

The book presents an edition of the forgotten work of Czech constitutional lawyer Vratislav Kalousek (1883–1936), who served as a senior official at the Ministry of the Interior during the interwar period. The author compares the newly established constitutions of neighboring republics – Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, and Austria – after World War I. The study was written shortly after the adoption of these constitutions and represents one of the first more extensive texts about them, as well as an interesting reflection from the perspective of the early 1920s. Its author points out a number of similar solutions and critically examines and explains the differing elements of regulation. Some newly adopted foreign constitutions were also translated into Czech by Kalousek at the time and published to make them more accessible to domestic interested parties. The translations of the discussed constitutions, along with Kalousek's translation of the Prussian constitution, form an appendix to the edition. The book is supplemented by a biographical study that briefly outlines the fate of its now-forgotten author.