RSS 1.0Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica 2025/113
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Balancing of Fundamental Rights by the Employer? Employer’s Margin of Manoeuvre to Order Mandatory Vaccination and to Terminate or Suspend the Labor Contract of Non-Vaccinated Employees
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)During the (post-)COVID period, states rendered several restrictions of fundamental rights justified by the overarching interest in the protection of human life and public health. Among others, mandatory vaccination may ... -
Distributive Justice and Charity in Tort Law Adjudication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)A common claim in tort scholarship has been to argue that, generally, there is no place for distributive justice or charity considerations in tort law. This article discusses this claim. It is first shown that the thesis ... -
The Taxation of Digital Nomads Under Romanian Law: What is the Catch?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)Promoted as an attractive country for digital nomads (ranked on the 3rd place in the Digital Nomad Index1), Romania adopted the Law no. 69 of 29 March 2023, which brought changes to the tax regime for digital nomads.According ... -
From Cells to Codes: The Legal Transformation of Digital Identity, Integrity, and Self-Determination in the Digital Age
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)This article examines the evolving relationship between the human body and digital data, particularly in light of technological advancements that blur the distinction between physical and digital identities. The research ... -
Writing in the Sand: Mercy and Charity Above the Law?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)In this text the author elaborates the nature of the concepts of mercy and charity in western legal jurisdictions based on Judeo-Christian tradition and culture, arguing that both concepts, although different, have crucial ... -
Instrumentality in Thinking About Law (a Sketch of the Problem)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)The paper highlights the significance of instrumentality in law by emphasizing its inherent nature and transformative potential. Instrumentality is portrayed as a fundamental aspect of law, suggesting that law naturally ... -
The Problem of Transhumanism in the Context of Individual Freedom and Dignity: A Lesson from Slavoj Žižek
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)In his book Hegel in a Wired Brain, Slavoj Žižek uses the approach of G.W.F. Hegel because he considers that this approach can be used to describe the reality of people immersed in technology, but above all to analyze the ... -
Negotiating Personhood Beyond the Human: A Relational Legal Thought Experiment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)This article explores the ontological foundations of legal personhood in light of contemporary philosophical challenges to the human–nonhuman divide. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s theory of quasi-objects and Guido Sprenger’s ... -
Human Rights, Desire, and the Lacanian Subject: Between Self and Other
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)This paper seeks to re-examine the subject of law through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis, arguing for a more nuanced and critically engaged understanding of subjectivity. In Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory, the ... -
Dignity and Freedom in Humanism, Transhumanism and Posthumanism – Philosophical and Ethical Foundations for Legal Regulation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)The paper critically examines the philosophical foundations of neurorights, morphological freedom based on the concept of body ownership and boundless freedom for selfdetermination, including cyborgs. The origins of modern ... -
Re-membering Plurality and Relationality in Human Rights’ Dignity. A Peace Studies Approach to Pico della Mirandola’s De Hominis Dignitate
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-31)The concept of ‘dignity’ at the base of Human Rights has been criticized, paradoxically, for a humiliating treatment of the ‘Other’ that disregards, for example, the embeddedness of individuals within communities. In ... -
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