Research Interests of the Department's Staff

Currently, the Department conducts research in the history of public and private law, from antiquity to modern law.

The research focuses on parliamentarism worldwide, as well as the political system of pre-partition Poland. This includes studies on the role of wills in medieval Polish public law, the Permanent Council, the penitentiary system in the Kingdom of Poland, and the functioning of the judiciary and district administration in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Intensive research is also conducted in historical and modern private law. In the field of property law, studies examine ownership transformations from feudalism to capitalism in the Kingdom of Poland. Other research topics include the origins of labor law, administrative and judicial auctions, and the functioning of private law following the introduction of the Napoleonic Code. This includes sale contracts  of real estate, testamentary practices in the Kingdom of Poland, mortgage law, marriage law, as well as family and guardianship law in the 19th and 20th centuries.