The goal of this paper is to evaluate Friedrich August von Hayek’s political philosophy through the prism of the research on the economic efficiency of common law conducted within Law and Economics. One of the assumptions ...

Pavel Novgorodtsev was a professor of jurisprudence, politician, and a major representative of Russian philosophy of law. At the turn of the 20th century he recognised a crisis of the positivist juridical doctrine and an ...

This article explores judicial independence in light of a deontological model of virtues. It analyses judicial decisions and attitudes in the process of application of law, arguing that their aspirations to pursue judicial ...

Rights are one of the fundamental concepts in philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy. However, in Polish language the general research on rights has been neglected. Most of the scholars are concerned with the ...

The chief concern of the paper is to reconstruct the idea of the practical power of judgement, which in my view stands as a hidden philosophical background in Neil MacCormick’s writings in his post-positivist period. ...

Assuming that law should be understood as the positive law exclusively leads to a theoretical problem of how to explain the phenomenon of judicature as something distinct from the positive law. The division between making ...

The content of the article briefly presents the issues connected with theories of legal interpretation. The authors point to two methodological attitudes towards cognizing legal interpretation. They result in descriptive ...