Family Law in the Academic Research Output and Judicial Decisions of Professor Jerzy Ignatowicz Cover Image

Prawo rodzinne w dorobku naukowym i orzeczniczym Profesora Jerzego Ignatowicza
Family Law in the Academic Research Output and Judicial Decisions of Professor Jerzy Ignatowicz

Author(s): Mirosław Nazar
Subject(s): Civil Law, Civil Society, History of ideas, Welfare systems, Family and social welfare
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej

Summary/Abstract: Over several dozen years, Profesor Jerzy Ignatowicz combined his academic work and his work as a Supreme Court judge. In his academic work, he mainly dealt with the issues of family law (including the issues concerning the protection of the marital status rights), property law and cooperative law. He dealt with similar issues in the majority of cases he tried as a Supreme Court judge. The present article discusses the output of Professor J. Ignatowicz’s work both as a scholar and a judge, his contribution to the development of family law, influence on the interpretation and application of family law, as well as a permanent contribution to the development of the science of family law. Jerzy Ignatowicz’s academic research output includes over 180 publications. In the area of family law, he is the author of considerable passages in collective works, including e.g. System of family and guardianship law and commentaries to the Code of Family and Guardianship Law, and treatises, articles, judicial glosses, reviews and the academic handbook Prawo rodzinne (Family Law). This handbook, which after Professor’s death has been supplemented and updated by his student and coworker, has been published since 1987 (last edition in 2012). J. Ignatowicz’s academic works mainly deal with the issues of parental authority, foster care, custody, guardianship, protection of the marital status, and personal and property relations between spouses. Such issues were also involved in the cases Jerzy Ignatowicz tried as a Supreme Court judge. Some of his rulings became legal doctrines.

  • Issue Year: 60/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 105-119
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish