Studia Prawnicze. Rozprawy i Materiały / Studies in Law: Research Papers

The journal Studies in Law: Research Papers is published by Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM on behalf of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University. It has been published since 2005 as an academic journal, and since 2016 its primary version has been the electronic version.

Since 2026, Studies in Law: Research Papers has been published as an annual journal with continuous publication. Articles are published online on an ongoing basis after editorial acceptance, peer review, copyediting, and production, and are subsequently included in the annual volume. Articles are published in Polish and English.

Studies in Law. Research Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal whose guiding idea is to create a space for reliable and multidimensional debate on contemporary and future challenges facing law. The articles published in the journal address issues of key importance from the perspective of the development of legal scholarship and legal practice, both from a doctrinal and a critical-analytical perspective.

The journal focuses in particular on issues at the intersection of law, technology, and society, addressing such topics as artificial intelligence, the medicine of the future, the digitalisation of law, bioethics, and the modern administration of justice. Our aim is to support the development of the “law of the future” — reflection on how dynamic technological, scientific, and social progress affects the shaping and functioning of contemporary legal systems.

The thematic scope of the journal covers all fundamental branches of law, both public and private. The journal publishes original scholarly articles, case comments, and case studies concerning, among others, constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, administrative law, medical law, international law, and new technologies law.

Studies in Law. Research Papers is addressed to all those interested in current issues in legal studies, in particular representatives of the academic community and legal practitioners.

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 20 points.