FACULTY OF LAW, CANON LAW AND ADMINISTRATION JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN PEOPLE – STUDIES – STRUCTURE Editorial Board: Rev. Piotr Stanisz Paweł Wojtasik English version: Konrad Szulga (translator) Delaine R. Swenson (linguistic consultation) Law is a significant constituent of culture; it was and invariably is a decisive development factor deriving from the legacy of ancient Greece and Western Roman civilization. As a scientific discipline, it has been Alma Mater by combining the studies of law, canon law, cultivated at universities from the beginning. Studium administration and recently: European studies. generale in Bologna, the first European university The characteristic feature of studies at our founded at the turn of the 11th century, was in fact University concentrates on the universal and a school gathering the most outstanding professors of humanistic, and not only the professional aspect of Roman law and experts in canon law – the disciplines education. According to this assumption, the curricula, that provided favorable conditions for academic studies besides the core, fundamental legal subjects, additiona- in medieval Europe. Likewise, Catholic universities, lly encompass general lectures on issues pertaining to whose origins date back to the middle of the 19th the world of values, ethics, Catholic social science and century, formed legal faculties. the discipline of thinking. At the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin The Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Adminis- law as a scientific discipline has been pursued since the tration having its share in the University mission, very beginning of the University existence, i.e. since the following the idea of Deo et Patriae, endeavors to train year 1918, the same year in which Poland regained future lawyers, so that they will be capable of boldly independence. The Faculty of Law and Socio-Economic facing the contemporary challenges and become Sciences and the Faculty of Canon Law were then creatively involved in the process of national incorporated into the University structure. The course transformation as well as being able to assume the new in canon law has been functioning uninterrupted since tasks necessitated by the technological progress, then. However, the study of law ceased to be taught for globalisation and Polish integration with the European the years 1952-1981 as a result of the dissolution of the Union structures and utilize their skills and education Section of Law of the Faculty of Law and Socio- pro publico bono. Economics Sciences caused by the communist authori- ties. At present, the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, the successor of those faculties, Rev. Antoni Dębiński continues the ninety-year-old juridical tradition at our Dean and Professor of Law 3 THE MISSION OF JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN On 27 July 1918, on the initiative of the Rev. Idzi Radziszewski, the Polish Episcopate established the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Lublin with Radziszewski taking the office of rector (university president). After the death of Pope John Paul II, the University Senate convened for an extraordinary meeting on 4 April 2005 resolved to name the University after John Paul II as homage paid to the great Polish Pope. The University's mission is to conduct research in the spirit of harmony between science and faith, as well as educating and nurturing the Catholic intelligentsia and fostering Christian culture. The identity of the University is manifested in: special attention to the high level of research and graduate education, the study and dissemination of the Christian vision of man and the world against the backdrop of contemporary challenges, the concern for the preservation and cultivation of the most precious traditions of the homeland and, with this end in view, the formation of young generations; moreover, this identity is demonstrated through the University's pursuing policies related to its location in Lublin, the city hosting the Union of Lublin establishing the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569. It is the University's name, the name of its patron and its motto Deo et Patrie that urge the academic community to advocate its identity. The historical legacy of Lublin calls for an active involvement - also in collaboration with other universities and non-academic institutions - in the affairs of the city and the region. DEO ET PATRIAE FOR GOD AND FATHERLAND 4 Multinational traditions of the Republic, as well as the situation of the city near the eastern Polish border, indicate the trends in international cooperation and lead to the strengthening of ties between the nations of the Old Continent, and combine the achievements of Eastern and Western culture. With respect and reverence, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin recognizes and continues the great Polish pope's work of life and teaching; the Pope himself adjured the University to do so during his memorable visit to Lublin on 9 June 1987, "University! Alma Mater! You are embraced by the same love that Christ loved unto the end. You are embraced by the Eucharist. Remain in this beneficiary embrace of the Redeemer of the world. Serve the Truth! If you serve the Truth - you serve Freedom. And liberation of man and the Nation. You serve Life!" Fragments of the Preamble of the Statute of KUL Since 1954 the head of the Chair of Ethics in the Department of Christian Philosophy was Rev. Prof. Karol Wojtyła „University! Serve the Thruth!” John Paul II 5 HISTORY OF THE FACULTY The origins of legal studies at the Catholic University of Lublin are strictly associated with the history and the emergence of the University, which opened in 1918. The University founding fathers, who in the interwar period conceived a universal research Deans of the Faculty of Canon Law and educational program, envisaged a program in law and Moral Sciences (1918 - 1984): and created two juridical faculties: Faculty of Canon Rev. Prof. Bronisław Żongołłowicz Law and Moral Sciences and the Faculty of Law and Rev. Prof. Józef Florczak Rev. Prof. Antoni Szymański Socio-Economic Sciences with the Legal Section being Rev. Prof. Andrzej Michał Micheletti of first concern. Rev. Prof. Aleksander Wójcicki Rev. Prof. Gommar Michiels OFMCap Rev. Prof. Jan Roth SJ Faculty of Canon Law and Moral Sciences Rev. Prof. Henryk Insadowski In the interwar period, the Faculty of Canon Bp. Prof. Piotr Kałwa Law was the only autonomous faculty of this discipline Rev. Prof. Paweł Pałka in Poland. At other academic centers in Poland Bp. Prof. Jan Nowicki (Krakow, Lviv, Warsaw, Vilnius), canon law was taught Rev. Prof. Stanisław Płodzień within theological departments. After the end of World Rev. Prof. Józef Rybczyk War II, the Faculty of Canon Law resumed its activity Bp. Prof. Piotr Hemperek and operated continuously until 1984, when it was Rev. Prof. Józef Krukowski incorporated in the newly established Faculty of Canon Law and Legal Studies. 6 Faculty of Law and Socio-Economic Sciences In the period from the University's inception to deliberate policy implemented by the Communist 1952, law at the Catholic University of Lublin was authorities that aimed to hinder the impact of the taught within the Faculty of Law and Socio-Economic Catholic University of Lublin on the training and Sciences. The Lublin-based Faculty of Law was one of education of academic youth. The Communists' utmost six others that operated in the Second Polish Republic. objective was to ideologise and exploit law for the regime's purposes. The first instructors employed by the faculty arrived from various universities, primarily from Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. The staff permanently associated with the faculty included: Roman Longchamps de Berier, an outstanding civil law Deans of the Faculty of Law expert, and Zbigniew Pazdro, a professor of and Socio-Economics Sciences (1918 - 1952): administrative law. Other researchers and teachers of Prof. Antoni Peretiatkowicz long standing permanently associated with the Prof. Edward Dubanowicz University were: Ignacy Czuma, Wit Klonowiecki, Prof. Leon Waściszakowski Henryk Dembiński, Zdzisław Papierkowski, Antoni Prof. Roman Longchamps de Berier Pastuszka; affiliated with the Catholic University, not Prof. Stefan Glaser only formally but also ideologically, they continued Prof. Bronisław Bouffałł their work after World War II. Prof. Ignacy Czuma The years after World War II saw a rapid Prof. Ludwik Kazimierz Antoni Górski development of the Legal Section at the Faculty of Law Rev. Prof. Jan Wiślicki and Socio-Economic Sciences. In 1944, the Catholic Rev. Prof. Antoni Szymański University of Lublin was the first institution of higher Prof. Witold Zenon Krzyżanowski education on Polish territory that reopened during the Prof. Antoni Deryng ongoing warfare. However, the development of the Prof. Zdzisław Papierkowski faculty, including its Legal Section, was stopped Prof. Czesław Strzeszewski following the decision of the Minister of Education Prof. Henryk Dembiński worded in a letter dated 23 June 1949 and addressed, Prof. Leon Halban "To the Citizen Rector of the Catholic University of Prof. Aleksander Kunicki Lublin." By invoking the relevant decree, the minister ordered "a gradual dissolution of the Legal Section of the Faculty of Law and Socio-Economic Sciences at the Catholic University of Lublin." The Legal Section ultimately ceased to operate in 1952. The dissolution of the Faculty of Law and Socio- Economic Sciences marked the first stage of a 7 Faculty of Canon Law and Legal Sciences The initiative of restoring the Legal Section was promoted by the Rev. Prof. Józef Krukowski, the then dean of Faculty of Canon Law, at the turn of the 1970s. The section reopened in 1981 at the Faculty of Canon Law. In 1984 the faculty was renamed the Faculty of Faculty of Canon and Civil Law Canon Law and Legal Sciences. In 1989 the name of the faculty was again From the very beginning, among the section's modified to the Faculty of Canon and Civil Law.