The volume under the title “The (Un)Established Rule of Law in Bulgaria” was published in September 2012 as part of the CAS Research Forum series. This volume comes as a result of the CAS Discussion Series “Consolidation/Disintegration of Public Institutions and Political Process”, (2010-2011). The volume is genealogically related to a recently completed CAS international project, “Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies – Case Studies in Law”.The volume includes papers by: Ivo Hristov (Plovdiv University), editor of the volume and project convenor of the Shaken Order Project and the Consolidation/Disintegration Discussion Series, and the following project participants: Ivan Bilyarski (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Venelin Ganev (Department of Political Science, Miami University, USA), Martin Kanushev (New Bulgarian University), Jani Kirov (Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Germany), Diana Mishkova (CAS), Atanas Slavov (Sofia University), Daniel Smilov (Sofia University) and Linka Toneva (Sofia University).