Debating the Concept of "Good Law"

• Authors: Krzysztof Pałecki

Abstracts

EN

Establishing good law has been an old dream of humanity. Back in ancient times leaders such as Hammurabi, Solon, and especially Justinian the Great, and many others, while attempting to codify and reform the law, were driven by the ideal of “good law”. ! is same idea inspired Montesquieu in his De l’esprit des lois (“! e Spirit of the Laws”). Monumental legal acts in Napoleon’s times or the time of German unifi cation, as well as copying these acts into the legal systems of the countries of the Far East, for example, Japan, serve as additional examples on how tempted leaders have been able to implement the idea of “good law”, which, quite frequently, is directly stated in the preamble to leading legal acts.

Keywords

EN

theory of law; good law; political theory

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 41
• Pages: 38-61

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Pałecki

• Jagiellonian University of Kraków (Poland)

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2012003

Biblioteka Nauki

2023486