Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej

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

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Criminalization of communist propaganda in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the Second Republic of Poland

Mgr Kamil Słomiński

University of Warsaw

English abstract: Combating totalitarian propaganda is a topic that continues to challenge the law, including criminal law dogmatics. The criminalization of totalitarian propaganda plays a special role in countries which have been affected by these regimes. Polish law currently criminalizes the propagation of communist ideology. It is worth presenting how this concept was shaped against the historical background of the regulations in force in the Second Republic of Poland. The article addresses the issue of criminalization of communist propaganda in the Second Republic of Poland. It analyses the rulings of the Supreme Court and scholars’ views concerning this issue from the period 1918–1939.

Keywords: criminalization, communism, propaganda, jurisprudence, Supreme Court

Language: English

Published: Number 3(44)/2025, pp. 107-118.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2025.3.107

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Political Agonism and Thinking About Law and Jurisprudence

prof. UŁ dr hab. Jerzy Leszczyński

Lodz University

English abstract: The article contains a polemic with the thesis that populism and the unveiling of the hitherto hidden political nature of law have resulted in a crisis of legal discourses. In addition, it argues against recognizing democratic/liberal hegemony as the main cause of these phenomena. Criticism of democratic liberalism from a political point of view provides little basis for announcing that jurisprudence has lost its credibility and its reconstruction should mean the overt politicization of legal discourses. Such a position is not an element of Ch. Mouffe’s agonistic theory. On the contrary, the project of agonistic democracy assumes maintaining legal democratic institutions that require political neutrality. The rule of law and the law meeting the requirements of the normative idea of law should be considered as political demands. Only then can law as normativity be contrasted with the factuality of law as the sovereign’s decision. This duality is visible in the concept of the state of emergency (C. Schmitt). To a large extent, the article is a polemic with the works of A. Sulikowski.

Keywords: agonism, Mouffe, politicalness, law, rule of law, Sulikowski

Language: Polish

Published: nr 3(40)/2024, pp. 41-53.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2024.3.41

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An Ideal of Scientific Jurisprudence. Józef Nowacki Against Ideological Influences on Jurisprudential Claims

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI

University of Silesia in Katowice

English abstract: Methodological assumptions underpinning Józef Nowacki’s research were one of the most original and intriguing aspects of his approach to legal theory. An extremely rigorous conception of what kind of legal claims may be regarded as scientific can be reconstructed based on his various writings about legal norms, general clauses, dispositive provisions of law, legal principles or the practical application of the constitutional notion of the rule of law. His relentless efforts to uncover and eliminate from scientific discourse any evaluative judgments served to defend legal theory against ideological influences and subjective wishful thinking disguised as scientific claims. In these respects, it not only was an unquestionably valuable position then, but it remains so nowadays. At the same time, it begs numerous questions and doubts that still permeate central methodological debates in jurisprudence.

Keywords: law, methodology, valuing, legal theory, science

Language: Polish

Published: Number 3(36)/2023, s. 22-33.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2023.3.22

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Should Judges Be Empathic? The Place of Judges’ Empathy in Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Katarzyna Rużyczka

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

English abstract: Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) has had a influence on the judiciary and legal practice given the emergence of special courts, the so-called problem-solving courts. As understood by David B. Wexler, TJ is an approach that combines experience from many scientific fields, constituting an interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on the therapeutic and antitherapeutic consequences of laws, legal procedures, and the roles and behaviours of legal actors such as lawyers and judges. The role that they play during a trial is particularly emphasized
in this theory in the context of causing both positive and negative consequences for those participating in the trial. The first purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the understanding of empathy and its role in the therapeutic jurisprudence, and to show how the concept of empathy is understood in the context of a judge’s work, particularly in relation to main TJ authors, David B. Wexler and Bruce J. Winick.

Keywords: judicial empathy, therapeutic jurisprudence, judges, empathy

Language: English

Published: Number 3(35)/2023, pp. 53-64.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280//AFPiFS.2023.2.53

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Institutional Critique as a Research Perspective of Jurisprudence in the Context of Jacques Rancière’s Philosophy

Dr Mariola ŻAK

University of Warsaw

English abstract: The article reflects on the condition of contemporary critique of law in the light of institutional critique derived from the theory of art. This study aims to verify the thesis that institutional critique is a research perspective formed against the background of various trends of critical legal thought. This critique is affirmative and constructive in character. It focuses on the analysis of the performance of reflexive institutions and it also problematizes cognitive tensions that are inherent in legal institutions. The institutions are analysed in the light of the metaphor of aesthetic play. The article presents the theoretical grounding of the relationship between institutional critique and critical legal thinking in the light of the philosophy of law inspired by Jacques Rancière’s thought. Furthermore, selected examples of this critique and directions for its potential application are shown in the context of modelling patterns of dialogic legal culture as understood by the law and humanities movement.

Keywords: institutional critique, critical legal thinking, aesthetics of law, law and humanities, Jacques Rancière

Language: Polish

Published: Number 1(34)/2023, pp.87-101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280//AFPiFS.2023.1.87

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Jurisprudence Popularized: Between Law, Literature, and Film

Mgr Marta Dubowska

Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Abstract: In this paper I discuss the apparent similarities between the “literate approach” and the aspiring “visual media approach”. Then, I scrutinize arguments for utility of the second approach. It seems that even though both approaches are founded on similar humanistic considerations, they are nonetheless separate positions; thus the need to justify the application of the second approach independently of the first. As an important task in due course I consider debunking the arguments in support of accusations of the “law and film” movement of being a threat to law and its legitimacy (as related to the “law going pop” argument by Richard K. Sherwin).

Keywords: law and literature, law and film, law and popular culture, narrative, jurisprudence

Language: English

Published: Number 1(26)/2021, s. 21-32.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2021.1.21

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Limits of Interpretive Disagreements in Jurisprudence

Dr hab. Adam Dyrda, prof. dr hab. Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki

Jagiellonian University

English abstract: Does legal interpretation have borders? Are these borders conventionally established? What makes the given ‘legal reasons’, set forth by certain normative theories of legal interpretation, acceptable in legal discourse (even if the reasons are wrong)? In the present paper, we argue that the notion of the borders of legal interpretation is linked to the general notion of the borders of law. We indicate the scope of ‘interpretive theoretical disagreements’ in law, as discussed by certain new, ‘institutional’ versions of legal positivism. Interpretive borders are not fully determined by the given ‘institutional’ framework. In our view, these borders are also more generally determined inter alia by certain truistic (platitudinous) beliefs related to law and interpretation.

Keywords: interpretive methodology, limits of legal interpretation, legal positivism, second-order rules of legal interpretation, normative theories of legal interpretation

Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(23)/2020, pp. 19-34.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.2.19

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Does American jurisprudence have any rules of interpretation of Constitution?

Dr Anna Tomza

University of Łódź

English abstract: The most discussed issue in the theory of law is the problem of its interpretation, and main question in this topic is – how to make a proper interpretation? The American common-law, opposite the European theory of law, seems not to have general rules of interpretation, but only the idea of proper interpretation. Also the methodology of statutory interpretation is some kind of the judge-made law. As Henry M. Hart said „The hard truth of the matter is that American courts have no intelligible, generally accepted, and consistently applied theory of statutory interpretation”. According to this, currently the question focuses on finding the generally rules of interpretation, which should be some kind of canons of the statutory interpretation. This article tries to give the answer to the question: „if American jurisprudence has any rules of interpretation of law?”.

Keywords: American jurisprudence, legal interpretation, rules of interpretation, Constitution

Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(9)/2014, pp. 125-133

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Are we all feminists now’’? The Challenge of Feminist Jurisprudence to Traditional Legal Theory

Dr Lidia Rodak

University of Silesia

English abstract: The potential of Feminist Jurisprudence is mainly built on its criticism of Traditional Jurisprudence. Through the deconstruction of the latter’s main categories such as objectivity, justice, equality, and rationality, Feminist Jurisprudence aims to demonstrate that Traditional Jurisprudence tends to mask inequality, exclusion and lack of recognition rather than beingable to bring about change or provide the values under research. What is more, FJ indicates a wide range of topics that are not explored by Traditional Jurisprudence and thus have nochance to be dealt with using traditional tools. As a result, Feminist Jurisprudence provides a separate language, a different epistemology and methodological tools that can broaden access to justice including all subjects by giving them recognition. What follows from thesetwo approaches to jurisprudence and two distinct sets of epistemological assumptions is a different understanding of the subject and a different vision of social relations. As Feminist Jurisprudence convincingly shows, traditional law, with its inclination for objectivity defends legal norms as part of the legal and social order rather than an individual autonomy and integrity of subjects. In this paper I would like to suggest a middle-way solution going beyondthe dualistic categories of objectivity and subjectivity. The proposal calls for a deep structuralchange of the legal discourse as the only one that really matters from the feminist point of view.

Keywords: Feminist Jurisprudence, traditional jurisprudence, objectivity, subjectivity

Language: Polish

Published: Number 1(8)/2014, pp. 67-76

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Interdisciplinarity and the external integration of jurisprudence in the light of postmodern critique

Mgr Jakub Łakomy

University of Wrocław


English abstract: The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the critique of the concept of “external integration of jurisprudence”, which has been widely discussed in polish jurisprudence in the past decades. I base my critique on an analysis of the concept put forward in Polish literature by Jerzy Wróblewski and Kazimierz Opałek. I also consider the postmodern critique of the views on interdisciplinarity held by classical jurisprudence.

The first part of the article consists of: a) general remarks on some doubts and ambiguites concerning understanding of “postmodernism” and common misunderstandings of this term and b) some remarks on the relations between law and postmodernism. In the second part of the article, I provide a sketch reconstruction of the basic traits of postmodernism, especially those characteristics, which determine the postmodern attitude towards interdisciplinarity.

In the third, main part of my article I show how the positivist, modern concept of “external integration of jurisprudence” is incompatibile with postmodern views on science, research, knowledge, epistemology and disciplinarity. I provide an in-depth critique of the presumptions and presuppositions underlying this concept. Finally, I ask: “Quo vadis, interdisciplinarity’’? What about the future of interdisciplinary research in the field of law, when the postmodern methodological storm has swept away the old instruments? Here I introduce the concept of “postdisciplinarity”.

Keywords: interdisciplinarity, postmodernism, disciplinarity, postdisciplinarity, poststructuralism, methodology, legal positivism

Language: Polish

Published: Number 1(2)/2011, pp. 29-45.

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