TY - JOUR
TI - Legal Theses of the Kraków Court of Appeal in 1940–1943
AU - Mielnik, Hubert
TI - Legal Theses of the Kraków Court of Appeal in 1940–1943
AB - 
	The German occupiers abolished the Supreme Court in the General Government. In the Polish (non-German) judiciary sector, there was no court of the highest instance to ensure the unification of jurisprudence. The competence to ensure the uniformity of jurisprudence and resolve existing doubts and legal issues was transferred to the courts of appeal. The objective of the present article was to demonstrate the procedure and practice of issuing legal theses by the Court of Appeal in Kraków. The article also presents changes in the composition of the judges and the territorial jurisdiction of the Kraków Court of Appeal. Archival sources constitute the source basis of the work. We also resorted to the latest subject literature. The work is based mainly on the analysis of archival sources and legal acts, so the scientific methods typical of the history of law were applied.

	*The present publication was elaborated as part of the research project entitled “Charakter prawny i rola tez prawnych uchwalanych przez polskie (nieniemieckie) sądy apelacyjne w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie w okresie II wojny światowej” financed by the National Science Center, Poland –under contract No. UMO-2017/27/N/HS5/00812.
VL - Tom 14 (2021)
IS - Tom 14, Zeszyt 1
PY - 2023
SN - 2084-4115
C1 - 2084-4131
SP - 59
EP - 82
DO - 10.4467/20844131KS.21.004.13271
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kshpp/artykul/legal-theses-of-the-krakow-court-of-appeal-in-1940-1943
KW - General Government; Nazi law; Nazi judiciary; The Second World War; Court of Appeal in Kraków
KW - Polish (non-German) judiciary; Generalne Gubernatorstwo
KW - prawo nazistowskie
KW - sądownictwo nazistowskie
KW - II wojna światowa
KW - Sąd Apelacyjny w Krakowie
KW - sądownictwo polskie (nieniemieckie)