Did Totalitarian Experience Shape Democratic Norms? Struggle for the Independence of the Polish Judiciary and its Results: Conclusions from Talks with Professor Adam Strzembosz

• Authors: Zakroczymski, Stanisław

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a confrontation of the statements made by eminent Polish Professor of Law, Adam Strzembosz, in the interview published in the form of a book Między prawem i sprawiedliwością, with the views presented in the legal, historical, and sociological literature. I describe the ways judicial independence was limited in Communist Poland, and the strategies judges undertook to counteract that phenomenon. Special emphasis is put on the attitude of the “Solidarity” movement towards this problem and the judge’s behavior under Martial Law. In conclusion, I try to prove that the post-totalitarian trauma in Polish judiciary provoked an “over-sensitivity” in regard to the judicial independence.

Keywords

EN

Communist Poland; judicial independence; “Solidarity”; Adam Strzembosz; Polska Ludowa; niezawisłość sędziowska; “Solidarność”

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Iuridica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 80
• Pages: 421-438

Dates

published

2019-09-23

Contributors

author

Zakroczymski, Stanisław

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.4892