About the Journal
A critical attitude toward law is necessary for its proper creation, interpretation, application and functioning. It requires an o pen, reliable and independent approach to the law as an object of intellectual reflection.
The Authors are kindly invited to exercise critique of the law from the perspective of theory and philosophy of law, social sciences, including economics, sociology, psychology. The topics of the subsequent issues will focus on questions of public law. Above all, we are publishing original articles that might be of interest to the international academic community within the profile of the journal, and texts that are of social or economic importance to Poland.
The scientific legal journal The Critique of Law. Independent Legal Studies (ISSN 2080-1084, eISSN 2450-7938) is issued since 2009.
Papers in English and Polish are accepted, as well as in French, German, Spanish, Italian. The main version of the journal is the electronic one.
All papers published in The Critique of Law. Independent Legal Studies are available online for free to all users immediately upon publication (Open Access). No author is charged for publishing an article (APCs).
The journal is currently subject to long-term archiving in the National Library of Poland Repository.
The policy of The Critique of Law. Independent Legal Studies is to make it possible for all authors to deposit versions of their work in institutional or any other repository of their choice.
The Critique of Law. Independent Legal Studies provides immediate open access to its content under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
CONTACT:
The Critique of Law. Independent Legal Studies
Kozminski University
59 Jagiellońska St.
03-301 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: krytykaprawa@kozminski.edu.pl
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Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Prof. dr. hab. Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca (Kozminski University, Poland), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0894-9558, e-mail: jablonska@kozminski.edu.pl
Vice EDITORS-IN-CHIEFS
Prof. Waldemar Hoff (Kozminski University, Poland) - administration, economy, global problems of contemporary world (current affairs), https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-wa...
Prof. Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg (Kozminski University, Poland), e-mail: mskorzewska@kozminski.edu.pl, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-ma...
THEME EDITORS
Prof. Waldemar Hoff (Kozminski University, Poland) - administration, economy, global problems of contemporary world (current affairs), EU law, international law, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-wa...
Prof. Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca (Kozminski University, Poland) - theory and philosophy of law, legal rhetoric, legal ethics, metodology of science, security, law on higher education and science, constitutional law, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0894-9558
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Jakubecki (Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Poland) - civil proceedings, bankrupcy law, restructuring law, commercial law, international commercial law, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9073-4371
Prof. Toshiyuki Kono (Kyushu University, Japan) - international commercial law, private international law, legal comparative studies, intellectual property law, protection of cultural heritage, https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000146/english.html
Prof. Robert Zieliński (Kozminski University, Poland) - budget, tax, customs, foreign exchange law, banking, currency, financial law of governmental units, market law, financial, international financial law, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-ro...
Prof. Adam Noga (Kozminski University, Poland) - economy and management, economic analysis of law, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-dr-hab-adam-noga
Prof. Przemysław Polański (Kozminski University, Poland) - intellectual property law, EU law, information society, knowledge management, informatics, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-pr...
Prof. Konrad Zacharzewski (Kozminski University, Poland) - commercial law, the law of obligations, digital currency law, capital market law, securities law, banking law, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9850-6020
Prof. Kamil Zeidler (Gdansk University, Poland) - theory and philosophy of law, aesthetic of law, legal rhetoric, protection of cultural heritage, legal comparative studies, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-3608
ASSISTANT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Anna Gorynska (Kozminski University, Poland), e-mail: gorynska@kozminski.edu.pl
SOCIAL MEDIA
Dr. Wiktor Krzymowski (Kozminski University, Poland), e-mail: wkrzymowski@kozminski.edu.pl
Dr. Ben Sassi (Kozminski University, Poland), e-mail: bsassi@kozminski.edu.pl, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/dr-ben-sassi
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF CONSULTANTS AND REVIEWERS
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Brodecki (University of Business and Administration in Gdynia), Poland, https://wsaib.pl/o-uczelni/kadra/item/4153-zdzislaw-brodecki
Prof. UŁ dr hab. Henryk Dzwonkowski (University of Lodz), Poland, https://www.wpia.uni.lodz.pl/struktura/pracownicy/henryk-dzwonkowski.html
Prof. Sibel Hacımahmutoğlu ( Hacettepe University), Turkey, http://www.hukukfakultesi.hacettepe.edu.tr/tr/docdrsibel_hacimahmutoglu-21
Prof. dr hab. Ivan Halász (National University of Public Service; Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Legal Studies. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary), https://jog.tk.hu/en/researcher/halasz-ivan
Prof. Javier Alonso Madrigal (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain), https://web.comillas.edu/profesor/fjalonso
Prof. Artur Mudrecki (Kozminski University, Poland), https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-ar...
Prof. Petr Mrkývka (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), https://www.muni.cz/en/people/632-petr-mrkyvka
Prof. Anna Musiała (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5788-9144
Dr Volodymyr Nesterovych (Lugansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko, Ukraine; Scientific Advisory Board of the Supreme Court of Ukraine), https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2614-0426
Prof. Ihor Ozerskyi (Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Mikolaiv, Ukraine), https://chmnu.edu.ua/ozerskij-igor-volodimirovich/
Prof. Magdalena Olczyk (Kozminski University, Poland), https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-alk-dr-hab-ma...
Prof. Ewa Popławska (The Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Prof. Michal Radvan (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9858-4555
Prof. Colin Scott (University College Dublin, Dublin, Irland), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0486-8670
Prof. UWM dr. hab. Agnieszka Skóra (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn), Poland, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2169-5326
Prof. dr. Ruth Taplin (Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies, London, UK)
Prof. Alexander Vashkevich (European Humanitarian University, Vilnius, Lithuania), https://en.ehu.lt/staff/aliaksandr-vashkevich/
Prof. UŁ dr hab. Mirosław Włodarczyk (University of Lodz, Poland), https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1974-1584
Prof. Jacques Ziller (Università di Pavia, Italy), https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7593-1895
Dr hab. Jacek Zrałek (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland), https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2813-8557
SCIENTIFIC BOARD
Prof. dr Adam Czarnota - chairman (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Czarnota
Prof. dr hab. Jan Barcz (Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland), https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-dr-hab-jan-barcz
Prof. dr Giuseppe Contini ( Cagliari University, Italy)
Prof. dr Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary College, University of London, United Kingdom), https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/items/delmar.html
Prof. dr Vladislav Fedorenko (Research Center for Forensic Examination on Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine), https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5902-1226
Prof. Fernando de Castro Fontainha (FGV Direito, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), http://www.iesp.uerj.br/docentes/fernando-de-castro-fontainha/
Prof. dr Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia), https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/martin-krygier
Prof. dr hab. Jacek Matuszewski (Lodz University, Poland)
Prof. Ignacio Aymerich Ojea (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain)
Prof. dr Gianluigi Palombella (Sant' Anna Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pisa, Italy), https://www.santannapisa.it/it/gianluigi-palombella
Prof. dr Stephan Parmentier (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium), https://www.law.kuleuven.be/linc/english/staff/00016825
Prof. dr hab. Maksymilian Pazdan (Kozminski University, Warsaw; University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland), https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/prof-dr-hab-maksym...
Prof. dr hab. Alicja Pomorska, professor emeritus (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)
Prof. Jiri Priban (University College Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom), https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/478897-priban-jiri
Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Wiśniewski (Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland)
Prof. dr hab. Fryderyk Zoll (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, Universität Osnabrück, Germany), https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7263-2670
Reviewers in 2020:
Prof. ALK dr hab. Jan Chmielewski, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. US dr hab. Agnieszka Choduń, Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Szczecin, Polska
Prof. dr Adam Czarnota, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Prof. UMK dr hab. Karol Dobrzeniecki, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Jan Głuchowski, Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa w Toruniu, Toruń, Polska
Prof. ALK dr hab. Agnieszka Grzelak, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Dr Dariusz Hajdukiewicz, Szkoła Zdrowia Publicznego, Centrum Medyczne Kształcenia Podyplomowego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. ALK dr hab. Waldemar Hoff, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. UWr dr hab. Wioletta Jedlecka, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław, Polska
Prof. UG dr hab. Karolina Jurkowska-Zeidler, Uniwersytet Gdański, Gdańsk, Polska
Prof. UWr dr hab. Przemysław Kaczmarek, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław, Polska
Prof. UP dr hab. Anna Kalisz, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie, Kraków, Polska
Prof. ALK dr hab. Hanna Kuzińska, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Leszczyński, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie. Lublin, Polska
Prof. dr Maximilian del Mar, Queen Mary College, University of London, Londyn, Wielka Brytania
Prof. ALK dr hab. Aleksander Maziarz, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Piotr Mikuli, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków, Warszawa
Prof. UMK dr hab. Wojciech Morawski, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń, Polska
Dr hab. Monika Münnich, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin, Polska
prof. INP PAN dr hab. Celina Nowak, Instytut Nauk Prawnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Oniszczuk, Szkoła Główna Handlowa, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. ALK dr hab. Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. UWM dr hab. Krystyna Szczechowicz, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski, Olsztyn, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Jan Wawrzyniak, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Roman Wieruszewski, Europejska Wyższa Szkoła Prawa i Administracji, Warszawa, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Wrzosek, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin, Polska
Prof. UWr dr hab. Patrycja Zawadzka, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław, Polska
Prof. UWM dr hab. Adam Zienkiewicz, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski, Olsztyn, Polska
Prof. dr hab. Maciej Zieliński, Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Szczecin, Polska
Prof. ALK dr hab. Robert Zieliński, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Warszawa, Polska
LANGUAGE EDITORS:
Prof. Ingrid Bejarano Escanilla (Spain)
Peter Janczyk (UK)
STATISTICAL EDITOR
Dr. Ewa M. Kwiatkowska, https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/spolecznosc/wizytowka/dr-ewa-kwiatkowska