The report on the 25th all-Polish Congress of Legal Historians Devoted to the Study and the Teaching of Law. Past and Present, Kraków, 22nd–25th September 2014 Cover Image

Sprawozdanie z XXV Ogólnopolskiego Zjazdu Historyków Prawa pt. Nauka i nauczanie prawa w przeszłości i współcześnie, Kraków 22–25 września 2014 r.
The report on the 25th all-Polish Congress of Legal Historians Devoted to the Study and the Teaching of Law. Past and Present, Kraków, 22nd–25th September 2014

Author(s): Katarzyna Krzysztofek-Strzała
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Higher Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Congress of legal historians; Kraków; study and the teaching of law;

Summary/Abstract: On the 22nd through 25th of September 2014 there was held in Kraków the 25th all-Polish Congress of Legal Historians. Its leitmotiv was the study and the teaching of law in the past and at present. The topic introduced by the organizers referred to the celebration of the 650-year anniversary of the founding of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The celebration fell upon the academic year 2013/2014. The chairs of legal history of Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków were the organizers of the jubilee Congress. The Congress was attended by more than 160 participants, including one hundred of those who presented their papers and those who demonstrated their research achievements during the poster session. The participants arrived from more than 20 research centers in Poland and abroad. The Congress took place in the Jagiellonian University’s Guest House in “Przegorzały” which was located at the street Jodłowa 13. On the 23rd of September 2014 it was Rector Magnifi cus, professor doctor habilitus of medical science Wojciech Nowak who made a ceremonial opening of the debates. The ceremonial opening was followed by the plenary session while the afternoon sessions of that and the next day were conducted in parallel sections. Each section comprised the reports that were focused on one discipline of legal history: Roman law, constitutional and legal history of Poland, general constitutional and legal history, history of administration and the history of political and legal doctrines. In the morning hours of the 24th of September 2014 there was held the poster session in which the post- -graduate students could demonstrate through a poster the results of their research. In the afternoon of 24th September 2014 there was held the last session. It was a plenary one and it served for summing up the debates of the 25th all-Polish Congress of Legal Historians.

  • Issue Year: 8/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 333-341
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish