Studies in History of Polish State and Law is a specialist periodical gathering historians who focus their studies on the process of shaping of the state and law in the Polish territories. The published articles address the topics of the historic and legal background of the Polish society.
Aims and Scope
Studies in History of Polish State and Law is a specialist periodical gathering historians who focus their studies on the process of shaping of the state and law in the Polish territories. The published articles address the topics of the historic and legal background of the Polish society.
Assigned scientific disciplines: history; political and administrative sciences; legal sciences; sociological sciences.
The journal is co-financed by:
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
University of Lodz
University of Warsaw
Studies in History of Polish State and Law is published in open access and does not charge authors any submission fees, editorial processing charges, article processing charges, page charges, colour charges, or publication fees.

Articles and issues of the journal are available in electronic form under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
The complete historical archive of issues and articles published before the launch of the current OJS platform remains available at https://szd.ka.edu.pl/.
The journal is included in the official list of scientific journals of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, with an assigned value of 70 points.
- eRIKA, the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University’s Repository
- PBN Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (Polish Scientific Bibliography)
- Index Copernicus
- CEJSH. The Central European Journal of Social Sciences
- CEEOL. Central and Eastern European Online Library
- BazHum
- EBSCO
- CEON. Biblioteka Nauki
Vol. 28 (2025)
Published: 2026-05-11
eISSN: 2450-6095
Editor-in-Chief:
Jerzy Malec
English
Język polski


