RESEARCH TEAMS
Team Leader: Wojciech Wyrzykowski, PhD
Research scope:
In 2014, the Research Team for Economic and Commercial Law started an international project called “The Evolution of Private Law”. The project concentrates on amendments to private law in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, demonstrating the influence of European Law on domestic legal orders and the role of the national legislator in implementing and establishing laws. The project has resulted in permanent cooperation between universities throughout Central and Eastern European, mainly from Slovakia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic.
As part of this cooperation, the Team has organised several conferences and published collections of papers. The members of the Team have enjoyed many opportunities to participate actively in conferences abroad, publish scientific papers abroad and participate in projects financed by foreign institutions. Seven conferences were organised in Katowice (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024), with guests from the following universities: Pavol Josef Šafarik University in Košice, Comenius University in Bratislava, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Yaroslav Mudryi University in Kharkiv, Masaryk University Brno, Palacký University in Olomouc, European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder and Universita degli Studi di Milano. Part of the research results, primarily concerning company law, contract law, bankruptcy law and new technologies, were documented in six collective monographs in the series The Evolution of Private Law (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2023).
Team Leader: Sławomir Tkacz, PhD, DLitt, Associate Professor
Research Scope: The team conducts research on law and values, including broad philosophical and theoretical problems within jurisprudence. The research focuses on the axiological foundations of legal systems and the processes of valuing in the application of law, including legal argumentation. In particular, the team addresses issues of fairness and justice, as well as legal principles and their balancing. In this context, the team members address the topic of freedom of speech, its limitations concerning hate speech, as well as the admissibility of legislative interference in the sphere of rights and civil liberties. The team also examines issues related to the ethical dilemmas of law. Research is also conducted in a historical-legal context, particularly concerning Polish legal theory and philosophy during the interwar period (including L. Petrażycki and Sz. Rundstein).
The team members participate in international conferences (including the Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – IVR), departmental meetings, seminars and webinars (both in-person and online), presenting contributions that reflect the research conducted within the team. The team collaborates with national and international academic institutions on research topics that align with the interests of its members.
Research Results:
- Between Normativism and Phenomenology: on the Influence of Adolf Reinach’s Concept of Social Acts on Szymon Rundstein’s Theory of Law
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Iuridica/article/view/17280 - Extraordinary appeals of the European Commissioner of Human Rights in the Light of Judgement of the ECtHR Wałęsa v. Poland
https://www.prawoiwiez.edu.pl/piw/article/view/953 - Using Legislative History in Interpreting Polish Law Example of Changes in Uderstanding Principles of Law Durig the Transition Period
https://karolinum.cz/casopis/auc-iuridica/rocnik-65/cislo-2/clanek-6743 - What is Offered to the Modern Science by Leon Petrażycki? (Following Three Descriptions of Legal Principles)
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/sh-2018-0013 - The constitutional crisis in Poland as a negative model of Hans Kelsen’s constitutional judiciary idea
https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/article?articleId=1470698 - Zasada nullum crimen sine lege jako źródło poszukiwania językowej granicy wykładni prawa karnego
https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/3503/zasada-nullum-crimen-sine-lege-jako-zrodlo-poszukiwania-jezykowej-granicy-wykladni-prawa-karnego/ - Józef Nowacki as a Theoretician of Normativism in Poland
https://brill.com/view/journals/rela/45/2-3/article-p248_248.xml - Kategoria słuszności w polskim orzecznictwie sądowym
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rpeis/article/view/27630 - Wykładnia autentyczna w świetle nauki o wykładni prawa
https://monograph.us.edu.pl/index.php/wydawnictwo/catalog/book/PN.4151