Jerzy Wróblewski (5 September 1926 in
Wilno - 31 May 1990 in
Switzerland
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) was a Polish legal theorist and a professor at the
University of Łódź.
Biography
Wróblewski graduated at the
Jagiellonian University
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in 1947 with master's degree in
law and completed postgraduate studies in
philosophy
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. After obtaining his
Ph.D. in 1949, he moved to the
University of Łódź in 1951, where he was appointed head of chair of the theory of state and law. He achieved
habilitation
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in 1970. He remained at Łódź till his death, where he performed a number of functions: pro-dean of the Faculty of Law (1953-1955, and 1958-1962),
dean of the Faculty of Law (1955-1956, and 1962-1964), pro-rector (1965-1968), and
rector
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(1981-1984).
He served as a judge of the
State Tribunal of the Republic of Poland
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. He was a member of the
Polish Academy of Sciences and the
Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
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. Wróblewski published in
jurisprudence and in the organization of
state administration.
Publications (selected)
The following list contains English editions of J. Wróblewski's books and separately published works:
[https://elibrary.lib.uni.lodz.pl/ , UL Library catalog]
*''Between legalism and finalism''. Duncker und Humblot, 1984
*''Cognition of norms and cognition through norms''. Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Teoria, Storia e Ricerca Sociale, 1983
*''Fuzziness of legal system''. Finnish Lawyers' Society, 1983
*''Law and philosophy''. Springer-Verlag, 1977
*''Law-making and hierarchies of values''. Duncker & Humblot, 1987
*''Legal reasonings in legal interpretation''. Centre National Belge de Recherches de Logique, 1969
*''Morality of progress : social philosophy of Leo Petrażycki''. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982.
*''Presuppositions of legal reasoning''. D. Reidel Publishing Company, cop. 1985
*''Problems of ontological complexity of law''. Universidad del Pais Vasco : Centro de Análisis, Lógiċa e Informática Iuridica, 1986
*''State and law in marxist theory of state and law''. Wayne State University Law School, 1976
*''The rational law-maker : general theory and socialist experience''. Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1987
See also
*
House of Wróblewski (Lubicz)
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References
1926 births
1990 deaths
Legal writers
Academic staff of the University of Łódź
20th-century Polish judges
Philosophers of law
Lawyers from Vilnius
Jagiellonian University alumni
Jerzy
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