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After the Polish-Bolshevik war in 1921 between 1.1 and 1.2 million Polish people remained in Russia (later USSR). The sovietisation of Poles did not bring satisfying effects. A sense of national spirit was getting stronger. Polish operation was focusing on physical mass extermination of Poles only because of the fact they were Polish. It is estimated that 240,000–280,000 Polish citizens were arrested...
Professor Marian Lech Klementowski, an acclaimed law historian from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, has extensive expertise in the field of mediaeval law, in particular the mediaeval Germanic law. His scientific research focuses on the evolution of concepts behind the guarantee of personal freedom in the Germanic cultural environment, the guarantees of law and order, and the guaranteed...
The paper deals with the process of the reception of law in Japan in the era of Meiji restoration, through the observation of its background and scope as well as of impact the reception had on the development of Japanese legal order in the 20th century. Besides the special circumstances of Meiji reception (isolation of Japan and politics of Western countries), there were some general factors that...
Procedural law contained in the Code of Hammurabi does not constitute a separate set of norms and it pertains to criminal and civil lawsuits as defined today. The judiciary was interlinked withadministrative powers. The sovereign (king) was the chief justice; assemblies of elders or council meetings performed a prominent role. Current matters were attended to by numerous administrativeand police clerks...
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