A thematic collection of the “Archive of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy”. Texts in the aesthetics of law — the field studying the relations between law and beauty. All articles are available free of charge in open access.
What is the aesthetics of law
The aesthetics of law asks about the relations between law and beauty in three perspectives: law as an object of aesthetic evaluation (the language, form and symbolism of law), law in art — from painting and literature to film — and art as an object of legal regulation. In Polish scholarship the research programme of legal aesthetics was developed by Kamil Zeidler (the monograph Estetyka prawa, 2018), and the field — akin to the law and literature movement — has become a recognisable Polish speciality in world legal philosophy.
Selected texts
- Jurisprudenz Gustava Klimta a problem skali roszczeń względem prawa — Natalia Regina Skoczylas, Mateusz Wojtanowski, No. 2(43)/2025 (in Polish)
- Prawo a wartości inne niż moralne. O poszukiwaniu tropów w pracach Józefa Nowackiego — Kamil Zeidler, No. 3(36)/2023 (in Polish)
- Krytyka instytucjonalna jako perspektywa badawcza prawoznawstwa w kontekście filozofii Jacquesa Rancière’a — Mariola Żak, No. 1(34)/2023 (in Polish)
- Ile piękna w prawie? Ile prawa w pięknie? Recenzja książki Kamila Zeidlera „Estetyka prawa” — Dawid Kostecki, No. 3(32)/2022 (in Polish, review)
- Prawo w filmie jako przejaw estetyki prawa i szczególny przypadek kierunku prawo i literatura — Kamil Zeidler, No. 1(26)/2021 (in Polish)
See also
Classics of Legal Theory and Philosophy · Law and Morality.
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