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- Introduction
- Regarding Justification of Interpretive Claims
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. Read more
- Limits of Interpretive Disagreements in Jurisprudence
Does legal interpretation have borders? Are these borders conventionally established? Read more
- Dialogical Concept of Legal Interpretation
The purpose of this text is to present an outline of the dialogical concept of legal interpretation. It involves the need to establish the relationship between the legislature and courts. Read more
- On an Interpreter’s Game with the Legal Text and Extratextual Factors in the Derivative Concept of Legal Interpretation
The aim of this paper is to show the derivative concept of legal interpretation from the point of view of the structure of limits of the juridical power. This structure includes the politico-legal culture, the legal text, the juridical culture, and personal factors, such as ethical and aesthetic judgements. Read more
- On Legal Interpretation and Its Practical Dimension: The Context of Judicial Application of the Law
The aim of the study is to identify those aspects of legal interpretation which may strengthen its practical dimension. The operative interpretation, distinguished in the theory of law, needs to be developed, inter alia, in order to strengthen the legal discourse as a whole and to contribute to better communication and deeper integration between dogmatic and theoretical legal studies. Read more
- The Principle of Nullum Crimen Sine Lege as a Source for Search for the Limits of Linguistic Interpretation in Criminal Law?
The principle of nullum crimen sine lege is nowadays recognized as the standard of the rule of law. This doctrine prohibits the use of analogies and extensive interpretation of legal provisions to the disadvantage of the perpetrator. Read more
- The Role of Values in Legal Interpretation: The Normative Approach
The article presents and analyses a certain theory of values and their role in legal interpretation. The article calls it a ‘componential’ theory of values. Read more
- A Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Perspective of Cognitive Theory of Prototypes: A Case Study
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. Read more
- How Are Symbolic Statutes Created? Two Case Studies
Symbolic provisions of law lack effectiveness in the classic sense; moreover, the legislature using this instrument either accepts this lack of effectiveness or even intends it. Such provisions are adopted for the realization of either secret political goals or explicit goals – not by enforcing certain behaviours, but rather by shaping appropriate attitudes in the society. Read more
- Ceremony of Doctoral Thesis Renewal of Professor Maciej Zieliński, Poznań, 10 of January 2020
- Professor Maciej Zieliński (1940-2020)