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.