General Editor:

Prof. dr hab. Marek Zirk-Sadowski (University of Łódź)

Marek Zirk-Sadowski is a full professor in law and a philosopher at University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration. He is interested in analytical legal theory and philosophy, legal hermeneutics and philosophy of European integration. He published i.a. Understanding Values in Legal Language (in Polish 1984), Law and Cultural Participation (in Polish, 1998) and Introduction to Legal Philosophy (in Polish, 2011). In 2016-2022 he was the President of the Supreme Administrative Court. ORCID: 0000-0003-1740-0863.

Deputy General Editors:

Prof. dr hab. Bartosz Wojciechowski (University of Łódź)

Bartosz Wojciechowski is a full professor in law at University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration. He is interested in legal and moral philosophy, minority groups rights and economic theory of law. He published i.a. Judicial discretion. The legal-theoretical study (in Polish, 2004), Philosophical Approach to the Interculturality of Criminal Law (in English, 2010) and Narrative Identity as a Condition for Authentic Legal Subjectivity (in English, 2024). Since 2015 he is the judge of the Supreme Administrative Court in the Financial Chamber. ORCID: 0000-0002-4271-7056.

Dr Joanna Kamień (University of Gdańsk)

Joanna Kamień holds a doctorate in legal studies. She is Editor-in-Chief and Director of the University of Gdańsk Press. Her interests include: the philosophy of law, particularly the aesthetics of law, with a special focus on the role of law and literature in the education of jurists and in the understanding of the law; and relations between the theory and the philosophy of law. Her publications include: Prawo i literatura jako kierunek filozoficznoprawny (Law and literature as movement in legal philosophy) (2024). She is also co-editor of studies on the aesthetics of law: Aesthetics of Law: From Methodology to Manifestations, 2024, co-editor Kamil Zeidler, and Prawo i literatura. Parerga (Law and literature: Parerga), coedited with Jerzy Zajadło and Kamil Zeidler. ORCID: 0000-0003-2163-9754.

Managing Editor:

Dr Karolina Gmerek (University of Szczecin)

Karolina Gmerek, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in law at the University of Szczecin, Faculty of Law and Administration. She is interested in legal theory, especially concepts of legal interpretation and conventional acts in law, legal communication, legal education and methodology of interdisciplinary studies. She published i.a. Trial as a Social Communication Occurrence (2019) and Trial as a Social Communication Occurrence: Interactions Between Professional and Non-Professional Participants (2023). Since 2019 she is the Secretary of the Legal Language Commission of the Polish Language Council at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Science. ORCID: 0000-0002-4724-7612.

Editor:

Dr Mateusz Pękala (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków)

Mateusz Pękala, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków, Institute of Political and Andministrative Sciences. He is interested in sociology of law, especially theoretical concepts of law-making, alternative dispute resolution, public management and methods of empirical research on law. He published i.a. Decision-Making Purview of Legislators (2016), he was also co-editor and co-author of scientific monographs Mediation. Theory, norms, practice (2017) and The faces of mediation. Selected issues (2021). Since 2012 he is the mediator in civil cases. ORCID: 0000-0002-1389-2664.

Assistant Editors:

Karolina Brzykcy (University of Warsaw)
Mgr Agata Dąbrowska (University of Łódź)
Mgr Patryk Kupis (University of Szczecin)
Mgr Martyna Sowa (University of Szczecin)

International Editorial Committee:

Prof. Ana Dimishkovska (Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)
Prof. Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Prof. Stefan Larsson (Lund University, Sweden)
Prof. Jose M. A. Linhares (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Prof. Georg Lohmann (University Magdeburg, Germany)
Prof. Martin Skop (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)
Prof. Gülriz Uygur (Ankara University, Turkey)
Prof. Antal Visegrady (University of Pécs, Hungary)

Polish Editorial Committee:

Chairman:

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki is professor emeritus of the Jagellonian University in Kraków, Faculty of Law and Administration. In the years 1988 – 2018 he was the head of the Department of Legal Theory. His research focuses on analytic legal theory, and in particular theory of legal language and legal interpretation. He authored i.a. Lexical Ambiguity in Legal Interpretation (1978), The Language of Law from Sociolinguistic Perspective (1987) and co-authored Methodological Dychotomies. A Critique of Positivistic Legal Theories (2016). He published numerous articles in Polish, English, German and French. More information here.

Other Members:

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Bator (University of Wrocław)
Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Biernat (Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University)
Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Buksiński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Prof. dr hab. Hubert Izdebski (SWPS University)
Prof. dr hab. Adam Jamróz (University of Białystok)
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Kaniowski (University of Łódź)
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Kaźmierczyk (University of Wrocław)
Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Król (University of Łódź)
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Leszczyński (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
Prof. dr hab. Marek Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Stawecki (University of Warsaw)
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Stelmach (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Sylwestrzak (Elbląg Higher School of Arts and Economics)
Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Tobor (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Prof. dr hab. Sławomira Wronkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Zajadło (University of Gdańsk)
Prof. UWM dr hab. Adam Zienkiewicz (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)