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Public Discussion on the Draft of the Polish Criminal Code of 1963 as Reported by The New York Times Correspondent, Paul Staats Underwood

Tomasz Szczygieł

Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 17, Issue 3, Early Access

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.24.027.21011

The article concerns the report by The New York Times correspondent, Paul Staats Underwood, concerning the Polish draft Criminal Code of 1963. It discusses the main issues, which Underwood concludes lead to a negative overall view of the draft code. One of the issues addressed is the public opinion about increasing penalization of social and economic life in the Polish People’s Republic. The study also discusses the reaction of ministerial authorities to the publication of the text by Underwood in The New York Times. In addition, the analysis covers the reasons for such a one-sided negative assessment of the draft and the question of whether the journalist was motivated by a desire to cause the rejection of another draft of the Criminal Code of the Polish People’s Republic.

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Ostatni referat Edmunda Krzymuskiego w pracach Sekcji Prawa Karnego Materialnego Komisji Kodyfikacyjnej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej – wybrane zagadnienia

Tomasz Szczygieł

Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 16, Issue 1, Volume 16 (2023), pp. 67 - 86

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.23.004.17304

The paper presents the course of the discussion of Edmund Krzymuski’s essay on crimes against life and health, which took place as part of the Section of Substantive Criminal Law of the Codification Commission of the Republic of Poland in June 24–27, 1920. The article focuses on the main threads of the referent’s questionnaire and is devoted i.a., to the crimes of murder, bodily harm, incitement to suicide, or the killing of a fetus. The work highlights both Krzymuski’s proposals, as well as different concepts supported by other members of the Section, which were included in the draft criminal code of 1932. That discussion was significant because most of these solutions are still in force today in the Polish legal system. The article also attempts to answer whether the circumstances related to the referent’s proposals could have influenced his decision to resign from further work within the Substantive Criminal Law Section of the Codification Commission of the Republic of Poland.

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Tomasz Szczygieł

University of Silesia in Katowice, ( Poland)