Procedury nadawania stopni naukowych – czy jesteśmy w punkcie zwrotnym?
Procedures for granting scientific degrees: Are we at a turning point?

Summary/Abstract: Despite the enormous importance of scientific degrees for the functioning of the Polish academic sector, the procedures for granting scientific degrees in Poland have not been thoroughly researched in legal scholarship, and their status (nature) still raises significant doubts and discrepancies in the doctrine and the jurisprudence of administrative courts. At the same time, legal changes and circumstances in recent years indicate that there has been a significant modification of the current model of procedures for granting scientific degrees, as well as a serious decline in the level of their legitimacy. The article presents these circumstances and argues that further development of the model of the Polish procedure for granting scientific degrees may be at a turning point, and the continuation of these procedures as administrative procedures subject to judicial review is not certain. In the author's opinion, if the paradigms of the Polish procedure for granting scientific degrees are transformed while there is a gap in scientific knowledge regarding its current model and a crisis of its legitimization, the changes may occur in an uncontrolled direction, take on a largely random character, and depend on the dominant moods and expectations or political decisions, rather than on legal scholarship and the actual shortcomings of the current legal regulation.

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