The new issue No. 1(46)/2026 of the “Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” has been published.

The current issue addresses the presidential power of pardon from the perspective of theories of interpretation and constitutional argumentation, as well as questions of judicial independence, constitutive rules, and methodology in legal research.

We invite you to read the issue.

Welcome to the issue 4(45)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” entitled Freedom of Speech of a University Teacher: Between the Known and the Unknown, eds. Paweł Jabłoński, Przemysław Kaczmarek, Mateusz Wojtanowski. The texts are available here.

Welcome to the issue 3(44)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” entitled Communist Crimes in Court: Law, Justice, and Memory in Post-Communist Europe, ed. M. Łaszewska-Hellriegel, Christoph-Eric Mecke. The texts are available here.

Welcome to the issue 2(43)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Dr Michał JANOWSKI

Incoherence of Judges’ Decisions on Punishments. Presentation of the Results of an Experiment Conducted with Professional Criminal Judges Using the Method Developed by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Dr hab. Milena KORYCKA-ZIRK, prof. UMK

William David Ross’s prima facie duties vis-à-vis Ronald Dworkin’s principles of law

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz. Part II

Natalia Regina SKOCZYLAS, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudence and the Problem of the Scale of Claims on the Law

Prof. dr hab. Marek SMOLAK

The Constitutive and Conventional Nature of Legal Interpretation Directives

Dr hab. Tomasz SROGOSZ, prof. UKEN

Critical Approaches to International Law According to China Miéville and Bhupinder S. Chimni

Dr hab. Adam ZIENKIEWICZ, prof. UWM

The Judge as a Promoter of Peace

Dr Jakub ŁAKOMY

The Professor, the Political Activist, and the Professional on the Tightropes of Culture Wars: Stanley Fish’s Versions of Academic Freedom

 

Reviews:

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI

A central trend of the 21st century? Side-notes on works by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, An Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Polity Press, Hoboken NJ, 2024) and Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, Ungoverning. An Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (Princeton University Press, Princeton – Oxford 2024)

Prof. dr hab. Marek ZIRK-SADOWSKI

Karol Gregorczuk, Biobankowanie ludzkiego materiału biologicznego. Spór o model racjonalnego prawa w badaniach biomedycznych [Biobanking of human biological material. The dispute about the rational-legal model in biomedical research], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2024, pp. 387

 

Reports:

Dr hab. Katarzyna JAWORSKA-BISKUP

Debate “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. On emotions in law and literature”, Szczecin, 10 December 2024

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

2nd Mountain Trek-Conference on the Philosophy of Law of the Polish Section of IVR “Legal education crisis”, Silesian Beskids, 4–6 October 2024

 

The issue is available here.

Welcome to the issue 1(42)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue begins with acknowledgments addressed to Dr Paweł Skuczyński for his commitment and many years of work in the Editorial Board of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” (the text can be found here). The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Dr Filip CYUŃCZYK

Constitutionalized by the Past. The Role of National Identity and Collective Sense of Experience in Central European Constitutionalization

Dr Paweł KŁOS

Information Civilization and the Law: Significance of Limiting Factors. Introductory Insights

Dr Paulina KONCA

Judicial Update of the Meaning of a Legal Text in Three Questions

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz: Part I

Dr Martyna PŁUDOWSKA, Prof. dr hab. Andrzej SĘKOWSKI

Psychological Competences of Mediators. Selected Aspects of Creative Thinking in the Process of Mediated Conflict Resolution

Dr hab. Tomasz WIDŁAK, prof. UG

Pygmalion’s Digital Dream: An Outline of Legal-Philosophical Problems of Human Digital Twins in Medical Applications

 

Reviews:

Dr Joanna M. DUTKA

Bartosz Wojciechowski, Tożsamość narracyjna jako warunek autentycznej podmiotowości prawnej [Narrative Identity as a Condition for True Legal Subjectivity], series: Jurysprudencja [Jurisprudence], t. 21, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2023, pp. 180

The issue is available here.

Welcome to the issue 4(41)/2024 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. It is a thematic issue entitled: „Autonomy of Law: Classical Interpretations and New Challenges”, edited by Prof. UWr Dr. Maciej Pichlak and Dr. Mateusz Wojtanowski. The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Prof. UWr dr hab. Maciej PICHLAK, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

In Search of the Nomos of Law. Classical Interpretations and New Challenges to the Autonomy of Law

Dr Paweł JABŁOŃSKI

On the Difference Between a Strong and Weak Version of the Idea of an Internal Point of View

Prof. UAM dr hab. Karolina M. CERN, Prof. UAM dr hab. Barbara JANUSZ-POHL

„Back and forth” – The Rule of Law from its Origins to its Application in the Adjudication of the CJEU

Prof. dr hab. Przemysław KACZMAREK

Goodbye, Rule of Law? Diagnosis and Perspective

Prof. UG dr hab. Maciej WOJCIECHOWSKI

The Structural Determinants of Attitudes of Distrust in the Practice of Professional Roles by Representatives of Selected Legal Public Trust Professions

Prof. UZ dr hab. Martyna ŁASZEWSKA-HELLRIEGEL

Autonomy of Law in the Face of Bioethical Problems

Dr hab. Rafał MAŃKO

The Question of the Autonomy of Law in the Light of E.B. Pašukanis’s Hylomorphic Theory

Dr Karol GREGORCZUK

Legal and Political Positivism – Uberto Scarpelli’s Concept

From the life of the Polish Section of IVR:

The Results of the Competition of the Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Polish Section of IVR for the Best Doctoral Thesis in the Field of Theory and Philosophy of Law

The issue is available HERE.

All interested researchers are invited to submit proposals for articles to be included in the thematic issue of “Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The provisional title of the issue is “Freedom of speech of a university teacher: Between the known and the unknown”. It will consist of English and Polish-language texts.

The aim of the volume is to take a multifaceted look at the above-mentioned problem area. The issues addressed may cover fields such as: freedom to conduct scientific research and to communicate the results obtained; freedom of expression in academic teaching; autonomy and self-governance of higher education institutions. The framework of the volume includes analyses of relevant laws (from Polish or any other jurisdiction), historical-legal research and philosophical reconstructions of the idea of the university and the academic ethos, as well as socio-cultural diagnoses of the specific situation of the contemporary academy in Poland and worldwide.

As an invitation to collectively identify what we know about the scope of academic freedom of expression, and what remains unclear and thus requires further research and discussion, we present the following sample questions for consideration:

1. What expectations are formulated in the broadly understood public debate about academic research and teaching practice? To what extent do values such as truth, the development of knowledge, and the practical usefulness of results inform these expectations?
2. What are the limits of academic freedom of expression? Should its scope be different from the freedom of expression of those who do not have such a role? Does the role in question affect the scope of the freedom of expression he or she expresses outside the purely professional sphere (research and teaching), for example in public debate or in the private sphere?
3. What factors determine the limits of a university teacher’s freedom of expression? To what extent does the scope of this freedom depend on the context of a given society (historical, cultural, etc.)?
4. How do the changes in the structure of social communication brought about by the development of new technologies, in particular the Internet, affect the freedom of expression of an academic teacher?
5. To what extent is academic discourse responsible for the state of the public sphere? With regard to this question, is it possible to make a generalisation about people in the academy, or does the specific field they represent have an impact on the answer?
6. Should the academy maintain neutrality in relation to ongoing political disputes at the domestic and global levels? If so, what precisely constitutes such neutrality? If not, what are the limits and requirements for the academy and its individual representatives to engage in such disputes?

The volume will be edited by Dr Paweł Jabłoński (UWr), Prof Przemysław Kaczmarek (UWr) and Dr Mateusz Wojtanowski (UWr) as the fourth issue of the “Archiwum” in 2025. Article proposals should be sent to mateusz.wojtanowski2@uwr.edu.pl by 31 March 2025. Texts have to be prepared according to the editorial standards used by the “Archiwum” (detailed guidelines for authors are available at: https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Editorial-standards-ENG-zm.1.docx, with a maximum of 35,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes). For any further information, please contact the editors of the volume: pawel.jablonski@uwr.edu.pl, przemyslaw.kaczmarek@uwr.edu.pl, mateusz.wojtanowski2@uwr.edu.pl

Welcome to the issue 3(40)/2024 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Prof. UMK dr hab. Łukasz DOMINIAK

Libertarianism, Jusnaturalist Skepticism, and the Argument from the Legitimate Use of Force

Michał KORDZIŃSKI

The European Union as a Community of Well-Ordered Peoples? Object-Oriented Interpretation of John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. A Contribution to Future Research

Dr Wiktor KRZYMOWSKI

About the Pro-Constitutional Interpretative Directive In Dubio Pro Vita Humana

Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI

Political Agonism and Thinking About Law and Jurisprudence

Mgr Grzegorz LIPIŃSKI

The Understanding of Principles in Criminal Procedural Law

Mikołaj TRUSZKOWSKI

Formulating the Provisions on Entry into Force of a Generally Applicable Normative Act: Critical Analysis Engendered by the 2023 Act Amending the Electoral Code

Revews:

Mgr Agata DĄBROWSKA, Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI

Wojciech Zomerski, W kierunku demokratycznej nauki prawa? Dogmatyka, edukacja, postanalityczność. Warsaw 2023, pp. 383

Reports:

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

I Górska Rajdokonferencja Filozofii Prawa Społeczny wymiar rządów prawa, Beskid Żywiecki, 12–14.04.2024

The issue is available HERE.

Welcome to the issue 2(39)/2024 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Dr Tomasz GRZYBOWSKI, Dr Marta SARNOWIEC-CISŁAK

Determining Temporal Limits of Court’s Interpretative Decision (in Light of the Case Law of Administrative Courts)

Prof. US dr hab. Robert PISZKO

 Critical Analysis of the Hypothesis About the Usefulness of the Idea of Conceptual Metaphor in the Interpretation of Law

Mgr Kaja PTAK

Reconstruction of the Concept of Interpretative Juristic Presumption

Mgr Zdeněk TRÁVNÍČEK

 Metaphysical Vagueness, Identity of Legal Cases, and the Rule of Law

Dr Julia WESOŁOWSKA

The Scale and Diversity of References to Emotion in Polish Case Law on Personal Injury

Mgr Bartosz WIELECHOWSKI

 Hard to Explain? – Abductive Reasoning in Legal Factual Inferences

 

Reviews:

Prof. UAM dr hab. Marzena KORDELA

Emmanuel Jeuland, Theories of Legal Relations, Cheltenham, Northampton 2023. A Review

 

The issue is available HERE.

Welcome to the issue 1(38)/2024 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Articles:

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej BATOR
Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, Harmonia i dysonans. Wokół rozmów z filozofami oksfordzkimi. Remarks about the Book

Dr Hanna DĘBSKA
A Scholar’s Career and Idea Generation Under Conditions of Fundamental Structural Changes. About Leon Petrażycki Once Again

Prof. dr hab. Jolanta JABŁOŃSKA-BONCA
Changes in the Shell of Legal Culture on the Example of Remote Hearings. An Outline of the Problem

Dr Jędrzej JANICKI
Hermeneutical Elements in the Derivational Model of Legal Interpretation

Dr Michał SŁUŻALEC
State Commission for Counteracting Sexual Abuse of Minors under the Age of 15 as a Form of Satisfying the Sense of Public Justice

Dr hab. Andrzej STOIŃSKI
An Analysis of the Distribution of Rights and Duties in Communities in the Face of Complex Compensatory Correlation

Recenzje:

Mgr Karol STAŚKIEWICZ
Wojciech Zomerski, W kierunku demokratycznej nauki prawa? Dogmatyka, edukacja, postanalityczność [Towards a democratic science of law? Dogmatics, education, postanality], Warszawa 2023, ss. 383

The issue is available HERE.