Books in the Ius, Lex et Res Publica series

Trusts, fideikomissum and foundations along with property and their legal potential are vital for cultural heritage management in the future. The economic model of cultural heritage should comply with changes in the legal system. The national perspective plays an important part in cultural heritage management in an international context.

This book is devoted to the problem of the role of precedent as a legal category and an element of judicial practice in statutory legal orders. It presents theoretical, practical (based on Polish and European jurisprudence) and comparative considerations dealing with the potential of precedential practice in statutory law.

The legal situation of whistleblowers has become an object of keen public interest in recent years. As practice shows, people who reveal irregularities in the workplace are exposed to the negative consequences of their actions. This monograph proposes a model of legal protection of such people, which could be applied in the Polish legal order.

Both businesses and users have to deal with the necessity of processing enormous amounts of data, often either privacy-sensitive or covered by intellectual property rights. The law responds with new rules and novel applications of traditional rules. This book investigates these rules, their rationales, and consequences.

The book covers the fundamental areas of taxation and tax law in Poland. It explores the tax theory, general tax law, and specific taxes supplying the central and self-government budget revenues. The authors also seek to highlight some selected issues of the operation and evolution of Polish tax law.

The publication shows the impact of judicial decisions on the discretionary power of public administration. This issue is analysed in relation to the process of issuing individual decisions by the administration, which have a dominant influence on the sphere of rights and freedoms of man.

This book contains texts prepared by representatives of various branches of law. The authors aim to determine: 1) the source (at least the potential source) of modernist solutions in the Polish law, 2) the realness of the modernist character of the said source and 3) the refection of these modernist solutions in the currently binding Polish law.

In this book the authors present and, more importantly, give their own assessment of judicial decisions interpreting the Criminal Code provisions currently in force on self-defence and the transgression of its limits. The ultimate aim of this study is to answer the question if the present wording of relevant provisions is optimal.