Searching for National Components in Building own Legal Culture: The Debate on the Legal Situation of Women in Interwar Poland

• Authors: Klimaszewska, Anna

Abstracts

EN

Broad legislative works conducted in interwar Poland and concerning various branches of law focused, on the one hand, on the uniformization and reform of particular district systems inherited from the annexing powers, and on the other hand on the idea of building a national codification. In that context the programme for modernisation of socio-economic relationships and the elements derived from foreign legal systems, rooted in the previous century, were balanced with the values, customs, and specific features, regarded as native and constituting components of national identity of the Poles. Against this backdrop, a debate on the legal situation of women was taking place, of key importance from the perspective of legislative changes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in other legal systems around the world. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyze its course from the angle of components of Polish national identity, tradition, and legal culture, defined in broadly understood public debate.

Keywords

EN

legal situation of women; modernization; uniformization; national legal identity; interwar Poland; national tradition; French Civil code; status prawny kobiety; modernizacja; uniformizacja; prawna tożsamość narodowa; Polska międzywojenna; tradycja narodowa; Kodeks Napoleona

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Iuridica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 80
• Pages: 169-180

Dates

published

2019-09-20

Contributors

author

Klimaszewska, Anna

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.4798