Shaping the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1815-1830) - (Legal History Library) by Michal Galę & dek & Anna Tarnowska (Hardcover)

About the Book

Should the dispute over the interpretation of the 1815 constitution of Congress Poland be considered a key factor that shaped Polish political liberalism, and if so, why? The authors of this volume explore this question against the backdrop of constitutional development in post-Napoleonic Europe.

Book Synopsis

Should the dispute over the interpretation of the 1815 constitution of Congress Poland be considered a key factor that shaped Polish political liberalism, and if so, why? The authors of this volume explore this question against the backdrop of constitutional development in post-Napoleonic Europe. The aim of this book is to illustrate the mutual interdependence between political liberalism and constitutionalism after the Congress of Vienna and to examine how Western European constitutional and liberal ideas intermingled with traditional Polish aristocratic republicanism.

About the Author

Michal Galędek, Dr. iur. (2010), Dr. hab. iur. (2018), is Professor and Chair of the Department of Legal History at the University of Gdańsk, as well as Vice-President for Science of the Polish Society for Legal History. His most recent monograph is Ideology and Private Law: Polish Experiences in the Long 20th Century (Brill, 2025).

Anna Tarnowska, Dr. iur (2007), Dr hab. iur. (2020), is Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń's Department of the History of Legal and Political Thought and German Law, Chairwoman of the Legal-Economic Chapter of the Scientific Society in Toruń, and Vice-President of the Polish Society for Legal History. She has authored numerous books and articles on legal history and constitutionalism.