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Issue 4/2020 of „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” is now available

We 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:

Mgr Weronika Adamska: State of Exception in the Philosophy of Law. An Attempt at a Definition
Dr Tomasz Barszcz: On Beauty in a Lawyer’s Work
Mgr Michał Janowski: Legal Status of Animals in the Context of Their Biological Categorization
Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy Leszczyński: Law and Morality from the Legal Point of View: Particular Morality and Cooperative Morality
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Malinowski: In the Margins of the Concept of the Language of Legal Norms
Prof. UR dr hab. Grzegorz Maroń: References to Schools of Legal Thought in the Justifications of Judgments of Polish Courts
Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Tobor, Dr Mateusz Zeifert: Linguistic Corpora as a Tool of Statutory Interpretation: American Theory and Practice
Prof. UAM dr hab. Michał Wendand: Natural Law Within the Radical Enlightenment
Dr Wojciech Wojtyła: From Person to Community. The Theory of Participation According to Karol Wojtyła

The issue also features a review by mgr Mateusz Wojtanowski of Rafał Mańko’s book on the critical philosophy of adjudication – and a reply by the author himself.

The issue is available HERE.

Number 4(25)/2020 [PL]

Articles:

Mgr Weronika ADAMSKA
State of Exception in the Philosophy of Law. An Attempt at a Definition

Dr Tomasz BARSZCZ
On Beauty in a Lawyer’s Work

Mgr Michał JANOWSKI
Legal Status of Animals in the Context of Their Biological Categorization

Prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy LESZCZYŃSKI
Law and Morality from the Legal Point of View: Particular Morality and Cooperative Morality

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej MALINOWSKI
In the Margins of the Concept of the Language of Legal Norms

Prof. UR dr hab. Grzegorz MAROŃ
References to Schools of Legal Thought in the Justifications of Judgments of Polish Courts

Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt TOBOR, Dr Mateusz ZEIFERT
Linguistic Corpora as a Tool of Statutory Interpretation: American Theory and Practice

Prof. UAM dr hab. Michał WENDLAND
Natural Law Within the Radical Enlightenment

Dr Wojciech WOJTYŁA
From Person to Community. The Theory of Participation According to Karol Wojtyła

Reviews and discussions:

Mgr Mateusz WOJTANOWSKI
Removing a Spell by Spell? Some Remarks Regarding Rafał Mańko’s Monograph on the Critical Philosophy of Adjudication

Dr hab. Rafał MAŃKO
A Judge Between the Reality of the Political and Ethical Imperatives: A Reply to the Review by M. Wojtanowski

Linguistic Corpora as a Tool of Statutory Interpretation: American Theory and Practice

Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Tobor, dr Mateusz Zeifert

University of Silesia in Katowice

English abstract: In American adjudicating practice and theory of statutory interpretation, great attention is paid to the notion of ordinary meaning of legal text. In order to determine the ordinary meaning, judges usually refer to their own linguistic intuition or dictionaries – both these methods give rise to a number of reservations that have been expressed in legal literature for years. In the last few years, courts have also started using linguistic corpora for this purpose. Linguistic corpora are electronic collections of authentic texts in a given language which can be analyzed using IT tools (e.g. searches, frequency lists, concordances, collocations). Corpus research requires considerable linguistic knowledge and technical skills, and in return it offers statistical data that can reveal a lot about the semantic layer of language. The use of corpora by judges – first in state courts, later also in the federal Supreme Court – sparked lively academic discussion. In Polish literature, this issue has not been discussed so far, which is why the article is essentially of a reporting nature. First, an outline of corpus linguistics is presented. Then the history of the use of linguistic corpora by US courts is reconstructed. Finally, the legal discussion about corpora in the US is presented, with particular emphasis on voices approving their use and on critical voices.

Keywords: statutory interpretation, corpus linguistics, linguistic corpora, US case law

Language: Polish

Published: Number 4(25)/2020, pp. 80-90.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.4.80

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Issue 2/2020 of „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” is now available

We would like to invite you to read the latest issue of „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” (Journal of the Polish Section of IVR) published in Polish, and available in full open access. The issue, which focuses on legal interpretation, was edited by prof. UŚ dr hab. Sławomir Tkacz and prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Tobor.

The issue is dedicated to late Professor Maciej Zieliński. It begins with his last text ever – “Regarding Justification of Interpretive Claims” – written together with prof. US dr hab. Agnieszka Choduń,

The issue also includes following papers:

Dr hab. Adam Dyrda, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki: „Limits of Interpretive Disagreements in Jurisprudence”,
Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Tobor, Mgr Konrad Kobyliński: „Dialogical Concept of Legal Interpretation”
Dr Paweł Jabłoński, Prof. UWr dr hab. Przemysław Kaczmarek: „On an Interpreter’s Game with the Legal Text and Extratextual Factors in the Derivative Concept of Legal Interpretation”,
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Leszczyński: „On Legal Interpretation and Its Practical Dimension: The Context of Judicial Application of the Law”
Prof. UŚ dr hab. Sławomir Tkacz: „The Principle of Nullum Crimen Sine Lege as a Source for Search for the Limits of Linguistic Interpretation in Criminal Law?”
Prof. US dr hab. Olgierd Bogucki: „The Role of Values in Legal Interpretation: The Normative Approach”,
Dr Mateusz Zeifert: „A Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Perspective of Cognitive Theory of Prototypes: A Case Study”,
Prof. UŚ dr hab. Agnieszka Bielska-Brodziak, Mgr Marek Suska: „How Are Symbolic Statutes Created? Two Case Studies”

Apart from an introduction, the issue alse features a report on a Ceremony of Professor Maciej Zieliński’s Doctoral Thesis Renewal, presented by Dr Karolina Gmerek, and a text by prof. US dr hab. Agnieszka Choduń, written in memory of Professor Maciej Zieliński.

The issue can be read HERE.

Number 2(23)/2020 [PL]

Introduction
(prof. UŚ dr hab. Sławomir TKACZ, prof. dr hab. Zygmunt TOBOR)

Articles:

Prof. US dr hab. Agnieszka CHODUŃ, Prof. dr hab. dr h.c. Maciej ZIELIŃSKI
Regarding Justification of Interpretive Claims

Dr hab. Adam DYRDA, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz GIZBERT-STUDNICKI
Limits of Interpretive Disagreements in Jurisprudence

Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt TOBOR, Mgr Konrad KOBYLIŃSKI
Dialogical Concept of Legal Interpretation

Dr Paweł JABŁOŃSKI, Prof. UWr dr hab. Przemysław KACZMAREK
On an Interpreter’s Game with the Legal Text and Extratextual Factors in the Derivative Concept of Legal Interpretation

Prof. dr hab. Leszek LESZCZYŃSKI
On Legal Interpretation and Its Practical Dimension: The Context of Judicial Application of the Law

Prof. UŚ dr hab. Sławomir TKACZ
The Principle of Nullum Crimen Sine Lege as a Source for Search for the Limits of Linguistic Interpretation in Criminal Law?

Prof. US dr hab. Olgierd BOGUCKI
The Role of Values in Legal Interpretation: The Normative Approach

Dr Mateusz ZEIFERT
A Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Perspective of Cognitive Theory of Prototypes: A Case Study

Prof. UŚ dr hab. Agnieszka BIELSKA-BRODZIAK, Mgr Marek SUSKA
How Are Symbolic Statutes Created? Two Case Studies

Reports:

Dr Karolina GMEREK
Ceremony of Doctoral Thesis Renewal of Professor Maciej Zieliński, Poznań, 10 of January 2020

In memoriam:

Prof. US dr hab. Agnieszka CHODUŃ
Professor Maciej Zieliński (1940-2020)

A Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Perspective of Cognitive Theory of Prototypes: A Case Study

Dr Mateusz Zeifert

University of Silesia in Katowice

English abstract: Interpretative doubts in the application of law are usually born of discrepancies between the statutory language and the non-linguistic reality. Therefore, they pose the problem of categorization. The theory of law and legal practice have for centuries been dominated by the classical theory of categorization, according to which conceptual categories can be described by a set of sufficient and necessary features. In the 1970s, an American researcher Eleanor Rosch conducted a series of psychological experiments that led her to question the classical theory and lay the foundations for an alternative one, known as the prototype theory. According to this approach, conceptual categories are organized around the most typical exemplars (prototypes), and membership of a category is measured by similarity to the prototype. Some of the consequences of such view are that category membership is a gradable feature and that the borderlines of categories are fuzzy. The article presents an outline of the prototype theory in the version used in cognitive linguistics. Its usefulness for the theory and practice of statutory interpretation is tested on the basis of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the concept of beer. In this judgment, the CJEU refused to define the concept of beer by setting requirements as to its raw material composition and ruled that beer is a product that has organoleptic characteristics of beer. This definition on the basis of classical theory appears to be tautological, however, it finds theoretical justification in the prototype theory. In conclusions, the author indicates research problems that must be taken up in order for the prototype theory to be reliably used in jurisprudence.

Keywords: categorization, semantics, prototype theory, statutory interpretation

Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(23)/2020, pp. 109-120.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.2.109

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Number 2(17)/2018 [ENG/PL]

Prof. dr Marina DAWIDOWA
The Philosophy of Law in Modern Russia [PL]

Artykuły:

Dr hab. Agnieszka BIELSKA-BRODZIAK, Dr Mateusz ZEIFERT
Legislative Materials as a Tool for Solving Grammatical Problems in Statutory Interpretation [ENG]

Dr Sławomir DRELICH
The Revolutionary Political Philosophy of Ayn Rand [ENG]

Mgr Marta DUBOWSKA, Dr hab. Adam DYRDA
Legal Narrative and Legal Disagreement [ENG]

Dr Michał DUDEK
A Few Questions Concerning Photographs in Court Decisions [ENG]

Maksymilian HAU, Stanisław JĘDRCZAK
Rights – Person – Death. Part 1: Around Daniel Sperling’s Theory [PL]

Mgr Justyna JEZIERSKA
Political, Moral or Criminal? Reflections on Guilt Based on Karl Jaspers’ Theory [PL]

Michał PAWŁOWSKI
Liberal and Conservative Ideas in Ordoliberalist Thought [PL]

Dr Georgii SIBIRTSEV
Ensuring Independence in the Regulation of Professional Advocates’ Ethics in the Russian Federation and in the Republic of Poland [ENG]

Reports:

Mgr Katarzyna HANAS
Scientific Conference ‘Integrative Theory of Law – Between Practice and Dogmatics’, Lublin, 18 December 2017 [PL]

Dr Paweł KOKOT
Scientific Conference ‘Application of Jarosław Mikołajewicz’s theoretical concept of intertemporality’, Poznań, 8 June 2018 [PL]

Legislative Materials as a Tool for Solving Grammatical Problems in Statutory Interpretation

Dr hab. Agnieszka Bielska Brodziak, Dr Mateusz Zeifert

University of Silesia

Abstract: The article begins with a presentation of an interpretative tool in the form of materials from the legislative process (legislative materials, legislative history), including arguments offered in the theory of law in favour and against their use for interpretation purposes. These matters are then discussed with references to a specific type of interpretive problems, namely problems that stem from the grammatical constructions of the provisions of the law. The authors analyse five cases in which Polish courts reach for legislative materials in order to resolve doubts caused by sentence syntax, conjunctions or punctuation. The decisions issued vary – in their use of legislative materials courts deploy various other tools and values (e.g. vocabularies, formal logic, the ratio legis behind a provision or the rules of legislative procedure). The outcomes of such a confrontation are varied. Thus, the judgments presented here are a good illustration of the diversity of issues connected with the theoretical and practical aspects of the use of legislative materials in the process of interpreting the law.

Keywords: legislative history, legislative materials, statutory interpretation, grammatical problems

Language: English

Received: 02.10.2017
Accepted: 15.12.2017

Published: Number 2(17)/2018, pp. 18-34.

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