We invite everyone to submit papers to a special issue of the Journal of the Polish Section of IVR (Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej) concentrating on Images of Law in Film Art. The issue will contain papers both in English and in Polish. All the texts will be available open access at our webpage.

The purpose of the volume is to answer the question whether film, one of the more popular fields of culture today, can serve as a means to express interesting and noteworthy truths about law. The link intended to bind all the papers in the planned issue is therefore a formal one: it is the exposition of important legal problems with reference to selected movies (including television films and/or series). Therefore, the key to a successful submission is a convincing reference to specific film material, rather than the type of legal issue chosen to discuss. Topics discussed may relate to such various areas as: legal theory, legal and/or political philosophy, sociology of law and socio-legal studies, historical studies of law, legal psychology, criminology, forensic science, critical legal studies and others. Legal doctrine (legal dogmatics) is also welcomed, provided that such doctrinal legal analysis is joined with more general and fundamental research, in line with a scientific profile of the Journal. For example, papers limited to a mere analysis whether the presentation of a selected legal institution in a movie is consistent with its actual legal regulation will not be accepted – unless such considerations serve some general, theoretical and/or philosophical purposes.

References to film studies literature are of course more than welcome, yet are not required. The decision on the publication of a paper will be based both on its scientific value and on the assessment whether the reference to the film material forms a substantive element of the presented argumentation (in other words, whether such a reference does not play an ornamental role only, devoid of any substantive meaning).

The deadline for submitting a paper is September 30, 2020. We plan to publish the volume as a second issue of the Journal in 2021. Proposals should be sent on the email address of the Editorial Board of the Journal (archiwum@ivr.org.pl). The text should be edited according to the editorial standards for the Journal, available HERE. Further information is available from the editors of the volume: Dr Paweł Jabłoński (pawel.jablonski@uwr.edu.pl) and Dr Maciej Pichlak (maciej.pichlak@uwr.edu.pl), both from University of Wrocław.

The aim of “Archiwum” is to publish original and current research results, to create a forum for academic discussion, as well as to promote science in the manner of social responsibility.

The thematic scope of “Archiwum” is broad and includes many different forms of general reflection on law and its environment, primarily: theory and philosophy of law, social philosophy, political philosophy and sociology of law. We encourage authors to publish papers tackling particular branches of law, as long as they provide a significant contribution to the theory and philosophy of law or other aforementioned subdisciplines, or at least apply their methodology.

“Archiwum” is a journal publishing papers and other scientific texts primarily in following fields: law and philosophy. In the Polish Ministry of Education and Science list of scored journals “Archiwum” is further assigned to the following disciplines: international relations, family sciences, ethnology and cultural anthropology, Polish studies (Polonistics).

“Archiwum” is open to various approaches, methodological traditions, perspectives and research trends, both traditional, well established and innovative and pioneering.

“Archiwum” is primarily concerned with publication of original papers describing results of research projects conducted in journal`s thematic scope. Moreover, it is possible to publish an overview, translation, review, polemic and reports. More detailed instructions concerning the subject of selection criteria provided for different kinds of submitted papers are available on the journal`s website.

There is a possibility of publishing thematic issues of “Archiwum”, in which all or a representative majority of papers are devoted to one or a group of interconnected research objectives, or eventually when all published research results are using the same methodology. Thematic issues can be published on Editorial Board’s initiative or upon request by an individual Author or Authors. For such issues, Editorial Board will appoint an Editor or Editors, primarily unrelated to the Board.

“Archiwum” publishes papers in Polish and English.

We would like to invite you to read the latest issue of „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”, the journal of the Polish Section of IVR, published in Polish, fully in open access.

The issue includes following papers:

• dr Wojciech Ciszewski „Worldview Controversies in a Workplace: Comments from the Theory of Law Perspective on the Cracow IKEA Employee Case”,
• dr Karolina Gmerek „Identification of Procedural Acts Performed at the Trial: Considerations in the Context of the Actual Utterances of Non-professional Participants of Court Proceedings”,
• mgr Kamil Jesiołowski „Lord Patrick Devlin’s Concept of Public Morality in the Light of Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights”,
• dr Michał Pełka „David DeGrazia on Animal Rights: A Critical Analysis”,
• dr Paweł Skuczyński „Narrativity of Legal Language in Law-Making Processes”,
• mgr Michał Sopiński „Legal Reasoning as Practical Reasoning in John M. Finnis’ New Natural Law Theory”,
• mgr Marek Suska „Should a Court Be Understanding for the Legislator? On Legislative Error from the Perspective of the Theory of Legal Interpretation”,
• dr hab. Adam Zienkiewicz „Collaborative Law: Legal Practice Based on Cooperation”.

The issue also features a review of K. Dobrzeniecki book „Law on Emergency Situations. Between Legalism and Necessity” written by dr hab. Arkadiusz Barut, and two reports – „Law and Literature” conference report (31.05.2019) by mgr Wojciech Jankowski and report from IVR Best Philosophy of Law Book Prize 2017-2018 ceremony (10.07.2019) by dr Mateusz Pękala.

The issue can be read here.

We would like to invite you to read the latest issue of “Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”, the journal of the Polish Section of IVR, published in English fully in open access.

The issue includes following papers:

• mgr Szymon Mazurkiewicz, Legal Positivism Social Source Thesis and Metaphysical Grounding: Employing Metaphysical Grounding based on Metaphysical Laws,
• dr Marcin Pieniążek, Dimensions of Legal Ethics in the Light of Paul Ricoeur’s ‘Petite Éthique’,
• prof. dr hab. Marek Smolak, The Culture of Justification and Public Reason: Comments on the Motion of Members of the Polish Parliament to the Constitutional Tribunal,
• prof. UŁ dr hab. Tomasz Tulejski, Paulus Vladimiri and His Forgotten Concept of the Just War,
• prof. UG dr hab. Tomasz Widłak, Judges’ Virtues and Vices: Outline of a Research Agenda for Legal Theory,
• prof. dr hab. Wojciech Załuski, Why Moral Norms Cannot be Reduced to Facts: On a Trilemma in Derivations of Moral “Ought” from “Is”,
• mgr Tomasz Zyglewicz, Against the Input View of Legal Gaps.

The issue also features a review of Dr Henry Hardy’s (University of Oxford) book “In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure”, written by prof. dr hab. Beata Polanowska-Sygulska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and a polemical reply by the author.

The issue can be read here.

We are pleased to announce that the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2018 in the ICI Journals Master List 2018 for the “Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”, the journal of the Polish Section of IVR, was set at 59.35. For reference, we would like to remind you that the ICV value in 2017 was 48.85, whereas in 2016 it was 37.69.

ICI Journals Master List is an international indexing database of scientific journals, and the Index Copernicus Value is an evaluation standard for scientific journals, indicating, inter alia, the rate at which the journal increases the quotability of published articles.

Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, journal of the Polish Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) is open for submissions for its forthcoming 2020 English issue. The issue will concentrate on the subject of public interest. We will be happy to receive, review and publish papers on a wide variety of public interest research topics. Submissions can address theoretical and conceptual advancements, current challenges, legal aspects or any other contemporary topic that explores the social importance, concept and impact of public interest in all its various forms. We welcome a wide range of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies. However, due to the scope of the journal, all the papers should also explore the topic using theoretical, philosophical or sociological perspective.

Papers should be written in English and should not be longer than 40.000 characters, spaces and footnotes included. Together with the paper please send us the author form and author declaration form. The forms, together with important information on the editing and the review process, can be found at https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/guidelines-for-authors/. We encourage non-native English speakers to proofread the text before submitting it to the journal.

Please send the papers to the editor of the issue, prof. Martyna Łaszewska-Hellriegel, LL.M. (m.laszewska-hellriegel@wpia.uz.zgora.pl). The deadline for the submission is March 31, 2020.