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Aesthetics of Law

A thematic collection of the “Archive of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy”. Texts in the aesthetics of law – the field studying the relations between law and beauty. All articles are available free of charge in open access.

What is the aesthetics of law

The aesthetics of law asks about the relations between law and beauty in three perspectives: law as an object of aesthetic evaluation (the language, form and symbolism of law), law in art – from painting and literature to film – and art as an object of legal regulation. In Polish scholarship the research programme of legal aesthetics was developed by Kamil Zeidler (the monograph Estetyka prawa, 2018), and the field – akin to the law and literature movement – has become a recognisable Polish speciality in world legal philosophy.

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Classics of Modern Legal Philosophy and Theory · Law and Morality.

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The “Archive” publishes articles in legal theory and philosophy – including the aesthetics of law and the law and literature movement – in Polish and English, in open access with no publication charges and with double-blind peer review. The journal is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ and ERIH PLUS (100 points on the Polish ministerial list). See the guidelines for authors.

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Issue 4(45)/2025 of the “Archiwum” is now available

Welcome to the issue 4(45)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” entitled Freedom of Speech of a University Teacher: Between the Known and the Unknown, eds. Paweł Jabłoński, Przemysław Kaczmarek, Mateusz Wojtanowski. The texts are available here.

Number 4(45)/2025 [PL/ENG]

ARTICLES

Dr Paweł Jabłoński
Prof. dr hab. Przemysław Kaczmarek
Dr Mateusz Wojtanowski
Freedom of Speech of an Academic Teacher: Some Conceptual Clarifications and a Landscape of Challenges 

Mgr Ewa Ilczuk
Mgr Andrzej Porębski
Freedom of Academic Debate: For All or for the Chosen Ones? Students’ Attitudes Towards Freedom of Speech Limits for Academics

Dr Muhammet Koçakgöl
Dr Olcay Karacan
Between Protection and Restriction: Academic Freedom in the Case Law Of Turkish Administrative Courts Through the Lens of Frederick Schauer

Dr hab. Sławomir Tkacz, prof. UŚ
Dr hab. Aleksandra Wentkowska, prof. UŚ
The Academic Teacher in Times of Rule of Law Crisis. The Dynamics and Prospects, on the Example of Academic Lawyer Teachers

Dr Jakub Łakomy
Academic Freedom on the Frontlines of Culture Wars: Stanley Fish and the Freedom of Expression of a University Teacher

Dr Paweł Jabłoński
On Academic Freedom. Commentary on Ronald Dworkin’s Approach 

Mgr Przemysław Rybiński
No Thoughts Barred: In Defence of (Nearly) Absolute Academic Freedom

 

REPORTS

Dr Paulina Łabieniec
Mgr Paweł Boike
3rd Mountain Trek-Conference on the Philosophy of Law of the Polish Section of IVR “Sawa Frydman’s theory of legal interpretation”, Międzygórze, 15–18 May 2025

Dr Patryk Patoleta
Report on the conference “Social Changes and Legal Changes: Axiology, Constitution, European Integration”, Faculty of Law and Administration, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, 23–25 September 2024

Freedom of Speech of an Academic Teacher: Some Conceptual Clarifications and a Landscape of Challenges

dr Paweł Jabłoński, prof. dr hab. Przemysław Kaczmarek, dr Mateusz Wojtanowski

University of Wrocław

English abstract: In presenting this special issue of the “Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej. Journal of the Polish Section of IVR”, we would like not only to briefly introduce the contents of the individual articles that make up this volume but also to attempt to outline the field of research we are entering. We pursue these tasks in the following order. In the introductory section (1) we present the reasons why it is important and necessary today to address the titular issue. Next, we clarify the notion of the “academic teacher” (2). We then discuss the relationship between “freedom of speech” and “academic freedom”, noting that the relation is far less obvious than it might initially appear (3). Subsequently, we propose a division of the spheres of academic expression into three complementary areas, while emphasizing the preliminary and provisional nature of this distinction (4). In the next section (5) we outline one of the core disputes in the field of academic freedom, namely the opposition between activism and passivism. The final section (6) reviews the content of the articles included in this volume.

Keywords: freedom of speech, academic teacher, academic freedom

Language: English

Published: Number 4(2025), pp. 5–20.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2025.4.5

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Issue 2(43)/2025 of the „Archiwum…” is now available

Welcome to the issue 2(43)/2025 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Dr Michał JANOWSKI

Incoherence of Judges’ Decisions on Punishments. Presentation of the Results of an Experiment Conducted with Professional Criminal Judges Using the Method Developed by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Dr hab. Milena KORYCKA-ZIRK, prof. UMK

William David Ross’s prima facie duties vis-à-vis Ronald Dworkin’s principles of law

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz. Part II

Natalia Regina SKOCZYLAS, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudence and the Problem of the Scale of Claims on the Law

Prof. dr hab. Marek SMOLAK

The Constitutive and Conventional Nature of Legal Interpretation Directives

Dr hab. Tomasz SROGOSZ, prof. UKEN

Critical Approaches to International Law According to China Miéville and Bhupinder S. Chimni

Dr hab. Adam ZIENKIEWICZ, prof. UWM

The Judge as a Promoter of Peace

Dr Jakub ŁAKOMY

The Professor, the Political Activist, and the Professional on the Tightropes of Culture Wars: Stanley Fish’s Versions of Academic Freedom

 

Reviews:

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI

A central trend of the 21st century? Side-notes on works by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, An Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Polity Press, Hoboken NJ, 2024) and Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, Ungoverning. An Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (Princeton University Press, Princeton – Oxford 2024)

Prof. dr hab. Marek ZIRK-SADOWSKI

Karol Gregorczuk, Biobankowanie ludzkiego materiału biologicznego. Spór o model racjonalnego prawa w badaniach biomedycznych [Biobanking of human biological material. The dispute about the rational-legal model in biomedical research], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2024, pp. 387

 

Reports:

Dr hab. Katarzyna JAWORSKA-BISKUP

Debate “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. On emotions in law and literature”, Szczecin, 10 December 2024

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

2nd Mountain Trek-Conference on the Philosophy of Law of the Polish Section of IVR “Legal education crisis”, Silesian Beskids, 4–6 October 2024

 

The issue is available here.

Number 2(43)/2025 [PL/ENG]

Articles:

Dr Michał JANOWSKI

Incoherence of Judges’ Decisions on Punishments. Presentation of the Results of an Experiment Conducted with Professional Criminal Judges Using the Method Developed by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, David Schkade and Ilana Ritov

Dr hab. Milena KORYCKA-ZIRK, prof. UMK

William David Ross’s prima facie duties vis-à-vis Ronald Dworkin’s principles of law

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA

Around Selected Themes in the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz. Part II

Natalia Regina SKOCZYLAS, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudence and the Problem of the Scale of Claims on the Law

Prof. dr hab. Marek SMOLAK

The Constitutive and Conventional Nature of Legal Interpretation Directives

Dr hab. Tomasz SROGOSZ, prof. UKEN

Critical Approaches to International Law According to China Miéville and Bhupinder S. Chimni

Dr hab. Adam ZIENKIEWICZ, prof. UWM

The Judge as a Promoter of Peace

Dr Jakub ŁAKOMY

The Professor, the Political Activist, and the Professional on the Tightropes of Culture Wars: Stanley Fish’s Versions of Academic Freedom

 

Reviews:

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI

A central trend of the 21st century? Side-notes on works by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein, An Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Polity Press, Hoboken NJ, 2024) and Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, Ungoverning. An Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (Princeton University Press, Princeton – Oxford 2024)

Prof. dr hab. Marek ZIRK-SADOWSKI

Karol Gregorczuk, Biobankowanie ludzkiego materiału biologicznego. Spór o model racjonalnego prawa w badaniach biomedycznych [Biobanking of human biological material. The dispute about the rational-legal model in biomedical research], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2024, pp. 387

 

Reports:

Dr hab. Katarzyna JAWORSKA-BISKUP

Debate “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. On emotions in law and literature”, Szczecin, 10 December 2024

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA

2nd Mountain Trek-Conference on the Philosophy of Law of the Polish Section of IVR “Legal education crisis”, Silesian Beskids, 4–6 October 2024

Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudence and the Problem of the Scale of Claims on the Law

Natalia Regina Skoczylas

University of Wrocław

Dr Mateusz Wojtanowski

University of Wrocław

Abstrakt w języku polskim: The subject of this article is Gustav Klimt’s Jurisprudenz, a work intended as part of a larger exhibition of paintings depicting specific fields of knowledge. In contrast to the prevailing interpretation of the work in question as an expression of the artist’s personal sense of having been wronged, the authors of this article propose an alternative perspective, suggesting that the image carries a valuable message for legal discourse. As they argue, the image in question makes it possible to identify a potential way of improving the practice of law by reducing claims on it. In terms of the axiological perspective of the considerations, the article is located within the liberal democratic tradition. The article has an interdisciplinary character as Jurisprudence is interpreted from the perspective of art history and legal philosophy.

Słowa kluczowe: Gustav Klimt, Jurisprudenz, art history, philosophy of law, claims to law, aesthetics of law

Język artykułu: polski

Opublikowano: Numer 2(43)/2025, s. 58-79.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2025.2.58

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Issue 4(41)/2024 of the „Archiwum…” is now available

Welcome to the issue 4(41)/2024 of the „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. It is a thematic issue entitled: „Autonomy of Law: Classical Interpretations and New Challenges”, edited by Prof. UWr Dr. Maciej Pichlak and Dr. Mateusz Wojtanowski. The issue includes the following texts:

Articles:

Prof. UWr dr hab. Maciej PICHLAK, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

In Search of the Nomos of Law. Classical Interpretations and New Challenges to the Autonomy of Law

Dr Paweł JABŁOŃSKI

On the Difference Between a Strong and Weak Version of the Idea of an Internal Point of View

Prof. UAM dr hab. Karolina M. CERN, Prof. UAM dr hab. Barbara JANUSZ-POHL

„Back and forth” – The Rule of Law from its Origins to its Application in the Adjudication of the CJEU

Prof. dr hab. Przemysław KACZMAREK

Goodbye, Rule of Law? Diagnosis and Perspective

Prof. UG dr hab. Maciej WOJCIECHOWSKI

The Structural Determinants of Attitudes of Distrust in the Practice of Professional Roles by Representatives of Selected Legal Public Trust Professions

Prof. UZ dr hab. Martyna ŁASZEWSKA-HELLRIEGEL

Autonomy of Law in the Face of Bioethical Problems

Dr hab. Rafał MAŃKO

The Question of the Autonomy of Law in the Light of E.B. Pašukanis’s Hylomorphic Theory

Dr Karol GREGORCZUK

Legal and Political Positivism – Uberto Scarpelli’s Concept

From the life of the Polish Section of IVR:

The Results of the Competition of the Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Polish Section of IVR for the Best Doctoral Thesis in the Field of Theory and Philosophy of Law

The issue is available HERE.

Number 4(41)/2024 [PL]

Articles:

Prof. UWr dr hab. Maciej PICHLAK, Dr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI

In Search of the Nomos of Law. Classical Interpretations and New Challenges to the Autonomy of Law

Dr Paweł JABŁOŃSKI

On the Difference Between a Strong and Weak Version of the Idea of an Internal Point of View

Prof. UAM dr hab. Karolina M. CERN, Prof. UAM dr hab. Barbara JANUSZ-POHL

„Back and forth” – The Rule of Law from its Origins to its Application in the Adjudication of the CJEU

Prof. dr hab. Przemysław KACZMAREK

Goodbye, Rule of Law? Diagnosis and Perspective

Prof. UG dr hab. Maciej WOJCIECHOWSKI

The Structural Determinants of Attitudes of Distrust in the Practice of Professional Roles by Representatives of Selected Legal Public Trust Professions

Prof. UZ dr hab. Martyna ŁASZEWSKA-HELLRIEGEL

Autonomy of Law in the Face of Bioethical Problems

Dr hab. Rafał MAŃKO

The Question of the Autonomy of Law in the Light of E.B. Pašukanis’s Hylomorphic Theory

Dr Karol GREGORCZUK

Legal and Political Positivism – Uberto Scarpelli’s Concept

 

From the life of the Polish Section of IVR:

The Results of the Competition of the Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Polish Section of IVR for the Best Doctoral Thesis in the Field of Theory and Philosophy of Law

 

In Search of the Nomos of Law. Classical Interpretations and New Challenges to the Autonomy of Law

Dr hab. Maciej Pichlak, prof. UWr

The University of Wrocław

Dr Mateusz Wojtanowski

The University of Wrocław

English abstract: The aim of this article is to expose the concepts of the autonomy of law and, more primary, the nomos of law, together with the problems that these concepts imply. Contemporary challenges of legal practice and legal science, such as crises of the rule of law or the juridification of successive spheres of social life, call for a re-positioning and rethinking of the question of the autonomy of law. As the article points out, the discussions around these challenges can be read as disputes about the nomos of law – its possibility, nature and location. In this vein, the article analyses the concept of the nomos of law and then, with reference to Carl Schmitt’s interpretation of this notion, addresses the question of the possibility of the autonomy of law. The article also reconstructs the basic theoretical positions on the nature of the nomos of law and the autonomy of the legal order, with particular reference to the output of the Wrocław school of legal theory and philosophy of law in this area. Against this background, selected current challenges to the autonomy of law are considered.

Keywords: Autonomy of law, nomos of law, Wrocław school of legal theory and philosophy of law, Włodzimierz Gromski, crisis of autonomy of law, Carl Schmitt

Language: Polish

Published: nr 4(41)/2024, pp. 5-18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2024.4.5

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