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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

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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.

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