Obstacles to effectiveness of law

217 SUMMARY H. BAŇOUCH: PŘEKÁŽKY EFEKTIVNOSTI PRÁVA. DISERTACE. PRF UK V PRAZE Summary The dissertation thesis Obstacles to effectiveness of law points out to the phenomena, processes and approaches which diminish social effectiveness of law. Effectiveness of law is presented in its legal theoretical as well as economical and sociological form. The author does not give priority to any model of effectiveness, but rather examines advantages and weak points of each model while concurrently keeping a considerable distance from economic ideologization of law. Effectiveness studies, however, should always pursue real effect of law and, plainly speaking, they strive to trace the difference between law in books and law in action. As follows from the analysis of abstract effectiveness, effectiveness of law should be seen as a whole, because focus on partial results can diminish the overall effectiveness. Cost effectiveness is not able to produce a satisfactory outcome because it leaves aside a whole group of goals which cannot be expressed by direct financial income. The reflections are made upon processes which take place in society in transition, i. e. a society which has been undergoing a profound change. The transformation of a European state in the XX and XXI century must be realized by means of law; however,..