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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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Regarding Justification of Interpretive Claims

Prof. US dr hab. Agnieszka Choduń, prof. dr hab. Maciej Zieliński

University of Szczecin

English abstract: The duty to provide justification for claims is the realization of the postulate of criticism in the academia. Decisions regarding legal interpretation (regardless of whether they are formulated in the process of applying the law or outside this process) are made in the form of claims about a binding legal norm with a certain content. Validation of such claims requires their justification, just like in the academia. And in the academia, a claim remains theoretical until someone presents an inter-subjectively verified justification for it. The aim of this article is precisely that: to indicate the necessity to justify interpretive claims (both partial and final) in the process of interpretation. As a starting point in the process of demonstrating the need to formulate such a justification, we choose the derivative conception of legal interpretation, which provides for the duty to justify interpretive claims for methodological reasons (and which is an intrinsic element of the content of legal directives in this conception, at least implicitly). We present and discuss the types of justifications for interpretive claims and their variants (weak and strong). Furthermore, we analyse the difference between justifying ordinary and interpretive claims. Finally, we also identify the consequences of failure to provide such justifications.

Keywords: justification of interpretive claim, legal interpretation, postulate of criticism

Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(23)/2020, pp. 7-18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.2.7

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„Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” issue No. 1/2020 is now available

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.

Number 1(22)/2020 [PL]


Artykuły:

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

Recenzje i polemiki:

Dr hab. Arkadiusz BARUT
Karol Dobrzeniecki, „Law on Emergency Situations. Between Legalism and Necessity”. A Review

Sprawozdania:

Mgr Wojciech JANKOWSKI
Conference Report „Law and Literature”, Gdańsk, 31 May 2019

Dr Mateusz PĘKALA
IVR Best Philosophy of Law Book Prize 2017-2018, Lucerne, 10 July 2019.

 

Story of a footnote. Attempt to reconstruct the discussion of Hans Kelsen and Jerzy Wróblewski

Mgr Monika Zalewska

University of Łódź


English abstract: Article is an attempt to provide reconstruction of the discourse between Hans Kelsen and Jerzy Wróblewski. The main motive of the article are three footnotes from Hans Kelsen’s General Theory of Norms where he considers such issues as the meaning of the legal norm, and legal interpretation. Reconstruction leads to conclusion that if one treats H. Kelsen’s argumentation as a critique of Jerzy Wróblewski’s theory, this critique doesn’t have sound basis, because it’s essence is not to point contradictions and weakness of the theory, but it is led from the point of view of pure theory of law which itself at some points suffers from the lack of coherency. Thus the other approach of the interpretation of footnotes is offered, to treat them as an some kind of scientific testimony, and as a tool which has on scope to make improvement in pure theory of law. Additionally it has been pointed out, that Hans Kelsen didn’t put the main interest on Marxist issues which occurred in Jerzy Wróblewski’s theory, but on those elements which have it’s importance and are discussed till present day.

Keywords: Hans Kelsen, Jerzy Wroblewski, legal interpretation, normativism

Language: Polish

Published: Number 1(2)/2011, pp. 75-85.

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Number 1(12)/2016 [PL]

 

Articles:

Mgr Bartłomiej Dębski
Different texts – similar interpretation. Interpretation of law and interpretation of the Bible

Mgr Krzysztof Goździalski
The Law as a Cultural Subject in the Philosophy of Law by Carlos Cossio

Dr Błażej Kmieciak
The conflict between doctor and patient: an attempt to diagnosis, proposals for „treatment”

Mgr Sławomir Piekarczyk
The influence of cognitive dissonance reduction on the content of positive law. Euphemisms

Mgr Izabela Skoczeń
May fashionable and just have something in common? – or a few words about „thick terms”, „thick concepts” and „thick properties”

Dr Tomasz Widłak
Ronald Dworkin’s Philosophy of International Law


Reports:

Mgr Wojciech Zomerski
25 Years After the Transformation: Law and Legal Culture in Central and Eastern Europe Between Continuity and Discontinuity”, Brno, Czech Republic, 16-17.04.2015 r.

Dr Michał Krotoszyński
VII Conference of Young Legal Theorists and Philosophers „The Dimensions of Law”, Poznań, 6-9.09.2015 r.

Mgr Krzysztof Janas
„Maciej Zieliński Concept of Legal Interpretation” – A Conference Dedicated to Professor Maciej Zieliński, a Scientist and a Teacher, Poznań, 19.10.2015 r.
 

Number 2(11)/2015 [PL]

 

Prof. Isaiah BERLIN, Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA
Essentialism and Human Nature. Excerpts from “Unfinished Dialogue”

Prof. dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA
A Story of a Foreword. Remarks on the Chinese Translation of „Unfinished Dialogue”

Articles:

Dr Arkadiusz BARUT
The position of Social Insurance Institution in the perspective of „sovereignty” conception of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler

Mgr Jakub KARCZEWSKI
Clarity of law requirement regarding European Union law

Mgr Michał KROTOSZYŃSKI
Reflexivity and transitional justice research

Prof. dr hab. Sabina KRUSZYŃSKA
„L’amie de la liberté”: Benjamin Constant’s considerations about freedom

Dr Michał PEŁKA
Fish – Dworkin debate as an example of dispute about practice of interpretation of law

Prof. dr hab. Tomasz PIETRZYKOWSKI
Kant, Korsgaard i podmiotowość moralna zwierząt

Dr Krzysztof SIELSKI
Are societies of liquid modernity open societies? Two visions: Karl Popper and Zygmunt Bauman

Dr Radosław ZYZIK
Hindsight bias and liability for damages

Reviews and discussions:

Dr Tomasz GRZYBOWSKI
Jurassic Park of Legal Interpretation: A Response to Agnieszka Choduń

Reports:

Mgr Paweł SNOPEK
Critical Legal Conference 2014 Power, Capital Chaos, University of Sussex, Brighton, Great Britain, 4-6 September 2014

Filip RAKOCZY
2nd International Workshop On Law And Ideology Memories Of Struggles, Struggles Of Memories, Sarajevo, 28-29 May 2015

Number 1(2)/2011 [PL]

 

Articles:

Dr hab. Beata POLANOWSKA-SYGULSKA
Utility and Wealth-Maximisation: The Philosophical Foundations of the Chicago School of Law and Economics

Mgr Magdalena MAŁECKA
Law, economics, human behavior. Discussion about application of behavioral economics to analysis of law

Mgr Jakub ŁAKOMY
Interdisciplinarity and the external integration of jurisprudence in the light of postmodern critique

Dr Paweł POLACZUK
Some Remarks on Contractarian Justification of the Principles of Justice by John Rawls

Mgr Marcin ROMANOWICZ
The ‘clarification’ theory of legal interpretation as a theory of justification. Psycholinguistic perspective and the positivist idea of legal interpretation

Mgr Monika ZALEWSKA
Story of a footnote. Attempt to reconstruct the discussion of Hans Kelsen and Jerzy Wróblewski

Recenzje i polemiki:

Mgr Anna TOMZA
Monografia Marcina Matczaka „Summa iniuria. O błędzie formalizmu w stosowaniu prawa”

Dr hab. Marcin MATCZAK
Odpowiedź na recenzję Anny Tomzy dotyczącą książki „Summa iniuria. O błędzie formalizmu w stosowaniu prawa”

Sprawozdania:

Mgr Magdalena GLANC, Mgr Tomasz WIDŁAK
XIX Zjazd Katedr Teorii i Filozofii Prawa „Konwergencja czy dywergencja kultur i systemów prawnych” Jastrzębia Góra, 19–22 września 2010 r.

Dr Agnieszka CHODUŃ
Uroczystość Jubileuszu 70. urodzin Profesora Macieja Zielińskiego

Dr Tomasz BEKRYCHT
Naukowo-dydaktyczna działalność Katedry Teorii i Filozofii Prawa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego w latach 2009–2010

Updates on Polish Section of IVR and “Archiwum” (in Polish)

Editorial board

General Editor:

Prof. dr hab. Marek Zirk-Sadowski (University of Łódź)

Marek Zirk-Sadowski is a full professor in law and a philosopher at University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration. He is interested in analytical legal theory and philosophy, legal hermeneutics and philosophy of European integration. He published i.a. Understanding Values in Legal Language (in Polish 1984), Law and Cultural Participation (in Polish, 1998) and Introduction to Legal Philosophy (in Polish, 2011). In 2016-2022 he was the President of the Supreme Administrative Court. ORCID: 0000-0003-1740-0863.

Deputy General Editors:

Prof. dr hab. Bartosz Wojciechowski (University of Łódź)

Bartosz Wojciechowski is a full professor in law at University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration. He is interested in legal and moral philosophy, minority groups rights and economic theory of law. He published i.a. Judicial discretion. The legal-theoretical study (in Polish, 2004), Philosophical Approach to the Interculturality of Criminal Law (in English, 2010) and Narrative Identity as a Condition for Authentic Legal Subjectivity (in English, 2024). Since 2015 he is the judge of the Supreme Administrative Court in the Financial Chamber. ORCID: 0000-0002-4271-7056.

Dr Joanna Kamień (University of Gdańsk)

Joanna Kamień holds a doctorate in legal studies. She is Editor-in-Chief and Director of the University of Gdańsk Press. Her interests include: the philosophy of law, particularly the aesthetics of law, with a special focus on the role of law and literature in the education of jurists and in the understanding of the law; and relations between the theory and the philosophy of law. Her publications include: Prawo i literatura jako kierunek filozoficznoprawny (Law and literature as movement in legal philosophy) (2024). She is also co-editor of studies on the aesthetics of law: Aesthetics of Law: From Methodology to Manifestations, 2024, co-editor Kamil Zeidler, and Prawo i literatura. Parerga (Law and literature: Parerga), coedited with Jerzy Zajadło and Kamil Zeidler. ORCID: 0000-0003-2163-9754.

Managing Editor:

Dr Karolina Gmerek (University of Szczecin)

Karolina Gmerek, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in law at the University of Szczecin, Faculty of Law and Administration. She is interested in legal theory, especially concepts of legal interpretation and conventional acts in law, legal communication, legal education and methodology of interdisciplinary studies. She published i.a. Trial as a Social Communication Occurrence (in Polish, 2019) and Trial as a Social Communication Occurrence: Interactions Between Professional and Non-Professional Participants (in English, 2023). Since 2019 she is the Secretary of the Legal Language Commission of the Polish Language Council at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Science. ORCID: 0000-0002-4724-7612.

Editor:

Dr Mateusz Pękala (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków)

Mateusz Pękala, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków, Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences. He is interested in sociology of law, especially theoretical concepts of law-making, alternative dispute resolution, public management and methods of empirical research on law. He published i.a. Decision-Making Purview of Legislators (2016), he was also co-editor and co-author of scientific monographs Mediation. Theory, norms, practice (2017) and The faces of mediation. Selected issues (2021). Since 2012 he is the mediator in civil cases. ORCID: 0000-0002-1389-2664.

Assistant Editors:

Mgr Agata Dąbrowska (University of Łódź)
Mgr Patryk Kupis (University of Szczecin)
Mgr Martyna Sowa (University of Szczecin)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Prof. dr hab. Kamil Zeidler (University of Gdańsk) – chairman of the Committee

International Scientific Committee:

Prof. dr Ana Dimishkovska (Cyryl Metody University in Skopje, Macedonia)
Prof. dr Peter Goodrich (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University)
Prof. dr Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Prof. dr Stefan Larsson (Lund University, Sweden)
Prof. dr Jose M. A. Linhares (University in Coimbra, Portugal)
Prof. dr Martin Skop (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)
Prof. dr Gülriz Uygur (Ankara University, Turkey)
Prof. dr Antal Visegrady (University in Pecs, Hungary)
Prof. dr Anne Wagner (Lille University, France)

Domestic Scientific Committee:

Prof. dr hab. Bartosz Brożek (Jagiellonian University)
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Grabowski (Jagiellonian University)
Prof. dr hab. Marek Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Prof. dr hab. Sylwia Wojtczak (Lodz University)
Prof. dr hab. Kamil Zeidler (Gdańsk University)
Ks. dr hab. Tomasz Barankiewicz SVD, prof. KUL (The John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin)
Dr hab. Olgierd Bogucki, prof. US (Szczecin University)
Dr hab. Karol Dobrzeniecki, prof. UMK (Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń)
Dr hab. Bartosz Liżewski, prof. UMCS (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
Dr hab. Martyna Łaszewska-Hellriegel, prof. UZ (University in Zielona Góra)
Dr hab. Jan Winczorek, prof. UW (Warsaw University)
Dr hab. Adam Zienkiewicz, prof. UWM (Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn)

Honorary members of the Scientific Committee:

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Bator (Wrocław University)
Prof. dr hab. Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca (Leon Koźmiński University in Warsaw)
Prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Tobor (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Kaźmierczyk (Wrocław University)
Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Król (Lodz University)
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Leszczyński (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Pałecki (Jagiellonian University)
Dr hab. Tomasz Stawecki, prof. UW (Warsaw University)
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Stelmach (Jagiellonian University)
Prof. dr hab. Sławomira Wronkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Zajadło (Gdańsk University)

 

 

 

 

 

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