http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201014-233602-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-the-german-legal-culture/ The End of the German Legal Culture? Śledzińska-Simon, Anna eng 2020-10-14 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Hegemony Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In this post, I argue that: (I) the influence of German jurisprudence on the legal systems in Central and Eastern Europe results from transfers of legal knowledge and “cooperative adaptation” of elites in the new democracies; (II) the German legal hegemony is in fact a hegemony of reason and a culture of justification; (III) the decision of Bundesverfassungsgericht in PSPP is an attempt to maintain the culture of justification in view of its inevitable end.