Hubert Mielnik
Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 17 Issue 2, Volume 17 (2024), pp. 217 - 247
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.24.016.20289Hubert Mielnik
Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 14, Issue 1, Volume 14 (2021), pp. 59 - 82
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.21.004.13271The 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.
Hubert Mielnik
Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 15, Issue 1, Volume 15 (2022), pp. 49 - 57
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.22.004.15252The monograph highlights the aspects of the international law qualification of the actions and omissions of Germany towards Poland and Poles during World War II. The study tries to prove that in the years 1939–1945 Germany was obliged to observe the norms of international law in its relations with Poland, and especially the non-treaty prohibitions not to initiate aggressive war or to commit the crime of genocide. The review describes the hypothesis and aims of the monograph and evaluates its substance, form, and argumentation.