Legal History in Poland: Research and Instruction 311 sieclej Constitutional devices implementing State power in Poland, 1300— 1700,^ The implementation of domestic policy in Poland under the last two Jagiellonian King's 1506—1572,'^ or Le Principe «Lexest Rex»dans la theorie et dans la pratique en Pologne au XVTsiecle. The non-Polish speaker who would like to learn more about Poland’s constitutional history should doubtless resort to the respective volumes of periodical Acta Poloniae Historica, available in any larger Europan library. Among various articles on the subject as contained therein he would also find an interesting contribution of Stanislaw Plaza, again fromCracowmillieu: Changes in the political system of the Polish Commonwealth after extinction of the JageT Ionian dynasty3^ While drawing on his own research as well as that of a number of other legal historians (e.g. W. Sobocihski, J. Bardach, W. Czaplihski, H. Wisner, S. Russocki, H. Izdebski, S. Salmonowicz, to mention only a handful of many names) Plaza managed to depict a fairly original and innovative image of the Commonwealth of the late 16^*’ and early 17'*^ centuries. It is however also worthwhileto note that while trying to get an overall view of Polish legal history the non-Polish reader can use the volume printed in English which resembles a textbook and covers the entire history cif Polish state and law. The volume under the title Polish lawthroughout the ages. 1000 years of legal thought in Poland, was edited by W. Wagner in Stanford University, Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1970. The volume really deserves recommendation. It depicts the evolution of Polish lawfromthe earbest time up to the advanced 20'^’i century. The reader can therefore learn about the fundamental civil, penal and constitutional law solutions as well as legal procedures applied in Poland throughout the ages. Also legal ideas are dicussed at considerable length in this book, like for instance the law of nations, dynamically developing in Poland already at the end of the Middle Ages. The reader can also learn of the sixteenth century Polish Constitutional ideas, particulary those of Goslicki, that had remerkable impact on the democratic thought of 17^*’ century England. The book, besides, provides a panorama of silhouets of outstanding Polish jurists of the last one hundred years, among them a group of historians of law such as Wladyslaw Abraham, Oswald Balzer, Stanislaw Kutrzeba, Rafal Taubenschlag to mention only a few. Anyone willingto learn more about Polish legal research should use its brief ^ In: Asscmblee di Stati e institutioni rappresentative nclla storia del pensicro politico moderno ... Annali della Facolta di Scienza Politiche, a.a. 1982-1983, Materiali di Storia 7, Maggioli Editorc - Rimini. ** In: Legislation and Justice, ed. by Antonio Padoa-Schioppa, European Science Foundation, Clarendon Press 1997. In: Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol. 7, No. 2, December 1987. In: Acquitas, Acqualitas, Raison théorique et legitimation de I’autorite dans le XVF’ sieclc curopcen, sous la direction de Daniele Lctocha, Paris, Librairie PhilosophiqueJ. Vrin, 1992. " Acta Poloniae Historica 52, 1985.
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