TY - JOUR
TI - Jury Courts in Interwar Poland
AU - Maziarz, Jakob
TI - Jury Courts in Interwar Poland
AB - 
	Jury courts existed in all the partitioning countries, and after 1918 they were to operate in all parts of the reborn Polish state. Their activities were suspended indefinitely in the former Prussian and Russian partitions. Only the former Austrian partition operated until 1938, when the Sanacja authorities liquidated them. Jury courts adjudicated only criminal cases –concerning the most severe crimes and political crimes. Recently, more attention has been devoted to jury courts and the participation of the social factor in the judiciary in Polish science, but so far, no publications in English have appeared on this subject. In the article, the author presents a short description of the jury’s activity in Poland and discusses three hypotheses about the activity of the jury in Polish science.

	 

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	The project ‘Continuity and Discontinuity of Pre-war Legal Systems in Post-war Successor States (1918–1939)’ is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe. Visegrad Grant No. 22030159.
VL - Volume 15 (2022)
IS - Volume 15, Issue 2
PY - 2022
SN - 2084-4115
C1 - 2084-4131
SP - 275
EP - 291
DO - 10.4467/20844131KS.22.019.15722
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kshpp/article/jury-courts-in-interwar-poland
KW - courts
KW - jury court
KW - jury box
KW - social factor
KW - judicial system