O DZIEJACH WYDZIAŁU PRAWA UNIWERSYTETU WARSZAWSKIEGO OCZAMI WSPÓŁCZESNEGO ROSYJSKIEGO HISTORYKA PRAWA.
ABOUT THE HISTORY OF A LAW FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WARSAW THROUGH EYES OF THE CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN HISTORIAN OF THE LAW.

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns the history of law teaching in Warsaw, mainly within the period of 1869–1915, when Imperatorskij Varšavskij Universitet (The Emperor Warsaw University) existed in Warsaw. This university was established in place of the Szkoła Główna Warszawska (the Warsaw Main School), functioning under its name instead of the university and closed by the tsarist authority as one of repressions when the Polish 1863 insurrection defeted. The period of 1869–1915 was not a subject of research of Polish academics, contrary to their Russian colleagues. In particular, within recent years, two serious monographs of this theme have been published in Russia. The direct cause of writing the paper was one of them, a two-volume book written by Konstantin Krakovsky Nit’ vremeni. Istoriâ Juridičeskogo fakul’teta Varšavskogo-Donskogo-Rostovskogo Universiteta (Thread of Time: History of Law Faculty of the Warsaw-the Don-the Rostov University). Its author, a scholar from the Law Faculty of the Rostow State University, which was evacuated during the First World War, in 1915, from Warsaw, pays attention to various aspects of common history of both law faculties, which, according to this paper, could be concerned as possible common research of the theme. The paper presents these aspects, specifying the staff professors of the Warsaw and Russian-Warsaw Law Faculty before and after 1869, their common influences (mainly the impact of Polish law school on Russian legal methods in the 19 century, the influence of the Russian professors of the Emperor Warsaw University), as well as many other elements of the common history. Thanks to the book written by K.P. Krakovsky there can be reached more information about the Polish and Russian professors of this time, the curricula, social aspects of teaching and learning, or, also, students resistance against the tsarist autocracy at the university. As we can see, further research is required, and, also, that is why, a book by K.P. Krakovsky is particularly valuable to the Polish legal historians, examining the subject.

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