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Czasopisma prawnicze a unifikacja prawa w Polsce międzywojennej
Law Journals and Unification of the Law in Interwar Poland

Author(s): Adam Redzik
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Media studies, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: legal magazines; Second Republic (1918–1939); unification of law in Poland 1918–1939; the Polish Codification Commission;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to show the entire legal periodicals in the period of the Second Republic and their role in the process of unification and codification of the law. The paper shows the development of legal journals in the coming years, their specificity and involvement in discussions on the shape of the law or its interpretation. It indicates the difference between the strictly scientific profile of the journals, and targeted at the one branch of the law. There are also discussed journals published in foreign languages – aimed at popularizing Polish law, as well as publishing regular Polish Codification Commission. It has been shown that with a professional periodicals the discussion with all the legal professions – not only Polish but also European – was possible. Thus, the law journals made a substantial contribution to the shape that legislative acts of the Second Republic finally took.

  • Issue Year: 25/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 797-809
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish