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- Evidence (or proof?) as law’s gaping wound: a persistent false aporia?
In the paper I would like to allude to the possibilities that at last seem recognisable (and can be explored) when, expressly refuting the scission postulate (either in its luminous positive version or in its deconstructive aporetic reproduction), an internally relevant thesis for methodological unity between evidentiary adjudication and adjudication tout court (between judicial reasoning with proof and adjudicative... Read more
- The ways of understanding creative (constructive) interpretation
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the notion of creative interpretation (of any text, especially creative interpretation of a legal text). The author points out that there are two different meanings of the expression “creative interpretation”. Read more
- The justification system of John Rawls’s theory of justice
The paper considers a fundamental issue set against the backcloth of John Rawls’s theory of justice, namely the structure of its justification system. The issue is so significant, because justification fulfills a key role in the Rawlsian conception. Read more
- Is the concept of law an essentially contested concept?
Some legal thinkers (R. Dworkin amongst them) suppose that the concept of law is an essentially contested concept. Read more
- On three limitations of the lawyers’ power
According to the initially assumed concept of limitations of lawyers’ power the most important elements of those limitations are: legal text, legal culture, and ethics. This structure is characterized by the relations where the anterior element defines the framework of the latter, i. e. text affects legal culture and ethics, while legal culture affects ethics. Read more
- A few rare remarks on legal gaps
The article addresses the issue of legal gaps (lacunas). Specifically, the author puts forward the general definition of legal gap which uses the concept of ‘automatically applicable’ legal rule as well as presupposes specific understanding of law – namely, that it is consisted solely of the rules of the mentioned type. Read more
- Rozwój edukacji etycznej prawników. Artykuł recenzyjny książki Etyka zawodów prawniczych. Metoda case study pod red. Małgorzaty Król
- The Many Faces of Contemporary Philosophy and Theory of Law – konferencja z okazji dziesięciolecia Sekcji Filozofii Prawa Towarzystwa Biblioteki Słuchaczów Prawa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, 23–24 marca 2013 r.
- Prace Katedry Filozofii Prawa i Nauki o Państwie Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego w latach 2011–2012