In the aftermath of the PolishHungarian Conference held in Cracow in 2007 there has been published the present volume. It is exponential of the cooperation between the legal historians of the Cracow and Pecs Universities. The participants of the Conference discussed at length the topics concerned with the constitutional developments in the AustroHungarian empire in the final era of its existence. A series of articles published in the volume are illustrative of the Rechtsstaat tendencies as det