Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej

Journal of the Polish Section of IVR (ISSN:2082-3304)

IVR

Recenzja książki Bruno Latoura „The Making of Law. An Ethnography of the Conseil D’Etat”

Dr Jan Winczorek

Warsaw University


Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(3)/2011, pp. 104-113.

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References:

  1. Latour B., The Making of Law. An Ethnography of the Conseil D’Etat, tłum. M. Brilman i A. Pottage, Cambridge 2010 
  2. Latour B., S. Woolgar, Laboratory life. Social construction of scientific facts, Princeton UP 1979 
  3. Lautmann R., Justiz – die stille Gewalt, Frankfurt am Main 1972 
  4. Scheffer T., Adversarial case-making. An ethnography of English crown court procedure, Brill 2010 
  5. Stiles E.E., An islamic court in context: An ethnographic study of judicial reasoning, Palgrave Macmillan 2009

Creating anti-crisis law – axiological dilemmas

Mgr Hanna Dębska

Jagiellonian University

English abstract: The aim of the article is to indicate some of the axiological problems faced by the legislator in the law-making process. They are clearly visible in those legal regulations that are introduced in response to crisis situations.  The presented example – terrorist attack by hijacking a plane – is not only used to demonstrate dilemmas which in this situation must be settled by the legislator preparing relevant legal provisions, but it is also a pretext for enriching the discussion on the axiological aspect of the law. The article focuses on the so-called natural helplessness of law in axiological matters, law inflation and the problem of responsibility. The author concludes that issues indicated in the article cannot be solved in the light of current Constitutional Court’s judgements, which are treated as a reference point of the discussed issues.

Keywords: anti-crisis regulations, legal axiology, terrorist attack, law-making process, Constitutional Court

Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(3)/2011, pp. 34-46.

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References:

  1. Baudrillard J., Duch terroryzmu. Requiem dla Twin Towers, Warszawa 2005
  2. Beck U., Społeczeństwo ryzyka. W drodze do nowej nowoczesności, Warszawa 2002
  3. Grabowski D., Terroryzm polityczny. Próba charakterystyki psychologicznej zjawiska, w: K. Popiołek (red.), Kryzysy, katastrofy, kataklizmy. Zjawiska współczesnej cywilizacji, Poznań 2004
  4. Huntington S.P., Zderzenie cywilizacji i nowy kształt ładu światowego, Warszawa 2008
  5. Kopaliński W., Podręczny słownik wyrazów obcych, Warszawa 2006
  6. Marody M., Giza-Poleszczuk A., Przemiany więzi społecznych, Warszawa 2004

Four puzzles about the rule of law: why, what, where? And who cares?

Prof. dr Martin Krygier

UNSW Sydney


English abstract: Central among the many obscurities that attend the rule of law are those named in the title of the article. The first part contains some preliminary remarks and attempt to answer the first question. This attempt is based on distinguishing two ways of understanding what rule of law is. By the first way rule of law is a theological concept, i.e. to know what it is we have to know its aims and by the second, anatomical one, the most important thing to understand it are rules and institutions that are usually conceived as its part. The author holds a position that only the first way is appropriate and gives his own interpretation of aims of rule of law. This aim is legal reduction of the possibility of arbitrary exercise of power that is connected with four important reductions – of domination, of fear, of indignity, and of confusion.

Keywords: rule of law, arbitrariness, exercise of power, aims of rule of law

Language: Polish
Translated by: Katarzyna Mikołajczyk-Graj

Published: Number 2(3)/2011, pp. 5-19.

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