Kazimierz Opałek

Kazimierz Opałek (13 July 1918 – 11 November 1995) was a jurist and philosopher of law, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor, head of the Department of Theory of State and Law at the Jagiellonian University from 1954 until 1988. He was dean of the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University (1945–1956), editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki and Studia Nauk Politycznych.

Biography He was the only son of Tadeusz and Eugenia. From 1928 until 1936 he attended the Bartłomiej Nowodworski Gymnasium in Kraków. He passed matura in 1936. Also in 1936 he started studying law at the Jagiellonian University. From 1938, while still a student, he served as deputy assistant and librarian at the Historical and Legal Seminar of the Jagiellonian University under Rafał Taubenschlag. He graduated in 1944 within underground education. In 1946 he obtained doctorate upon dissertation Hieronim Stroynowski jako filozof prawa. His doctoral students included Jan Woleński and Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery.

Works Nauka filozofii prawa i prawa karnego w Polsce. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. 1948. Co-authored with Władysław Wolter. Znaczenie i rozwój nauki polskiej w XVIII wieku. Warszawa. 1951.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Nauka polskiego Oświecenia w walce o postęp. Warszawa. 1951.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Hugona Kołłątaja poglądy na państwo i prawo. Warszawa. 1952.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Prawo natury u polskich fizjokratów. Warszawa. 1953.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Myśl Oświecenia w Krakowie. Kraków. 1955.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Podstawowe prawa i obowiązki obywatelskie w świetle Konstytucji PRL. Warszawa. 1955.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Prawo podmiotowe. Warszawa. 1957.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) System prawa socjalistycznego. Warszawa. 1958.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Z zagadnień praworządności socjalistycznej. Warszawa. 1958.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Problemy metodologiczne nauki prawa. Warszawa. 1962.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Współczesna teoria i socjologia prawa w USA. Warszawa. 1963.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Co-authored with Jerzy Wróblewski. Zagadnienia teorii prawa. Warszawa. 1969.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Co-authored with Jerzy Wróblewski. Z teorii dyrektyw i…Citește mai mult

Accolades Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (15 January 1955) Honorary degree of the University of Pécs