The thematic collections of the “Archive of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy” organise our output around the great questions of legal theory and philosophy. Each joins a substantive introduction with a selection of texts published in the journal; all are available free of charge in open access.
Guide to the classics
- Classics of Legal Theory and Philosophy — profiles of the key figures — world and Polish — with references to the texts devoted to them.
Currents and positions
- Hans Kelsen and Legal Positivism — the pure theory of law, normativism and disputes within positivism.
- Ronald Dworkin and the Debate with Positivism — principles, integrity and the most famous debate in contemporary legal theory.
- Natural Law — the oldest tradition of legal philosophy and its contemporary readings.
- Conventionalism and Constitutive Rules — the conventional foundations of law and the analysis of conventional acts.
- Principles of Law — the nature of principles, their distinction from rules and their role in constitutional argument.
Interpretation, values and practice
- Legal Interpretation — theories, directives and limits of interpretation and its role in adjudication.
- Law and Morality — the relations between law and morality and ethics in legal and public practice.
- Instrumentalization and the Autonomy of Law — the tension between law as an instrument of politics and its autonomy.
- Aesthetics of Law — the relations between law and beauty — a recognisable Polish speciality.
For authors
Planning a text within one of these areas? The “Archive” publishes articles in legal theory and philosophy in Polish and English, in open access with no publication charges and with double-blind peer review; indexed in Scopus, DOAJ and ERIH PLUS (100 points on the Polish ministerial list). See the guidelines for authors.