Prawo i literatura. Od dydaktyki do polityki
Law and Literature. From Teaching to Politics

Summary/Abstract: The article is a critical presentation of research on law and literature, a field that has developed mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries since the 1970s. The traditions and assumptions of this field of study are outlined. A closer analysis is focused on three works summarizing the stages of development of research on law and literature (Richard A. Posner’s Law and Literature, Ian Ward’s Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives, and Kieran Dolina’s A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature). The article discusses the two basic categories of research: “law in literature” and “law as literature”. It points out the limitations and insufficient clarity of these terms. One of the field’s most intellectually promising approaches is presented, focused on copyright law as a discourse in which the notions of literary and legal intersect. A summary of the article situates the problems presented in the wider context of the differences between the legal cultures of Anglo-Saxon and continental European countries.

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