Dawid Bunikowski
I am a philosopher of law.
I am a philosopher of law. Doing research in many areas. Like law, philosophy, anthropology, political science, economics, etc. Based in Eastern Finland, originally from North Poland. Ethnocultural Kocievian. In philosophy, a fan of, among many, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and existentialists and personalists. Legal philosopher of language. PhD on enforcement of law and morality (2009, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland). Postdoctoral research on the financial crisis as an axiological crisis: the crisis of law and the crisis of morality (University of Eastern Finland, 2013-2015). Teaches in both Finland and Poland. Occasionally, a visiting scholar in Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
It is not easy to say about yourself but as Saint-Exupery said: if you were able to evaluate yourself well enough, you would be really wise.
I am relatively young, open, full of energy and new ideas, foreign researcher (originally a Pole) living and working in Finland. Although I am a lawyer, precisely a legal theorist, a philosopher of law, my interests are very wide. My interests are both very wide and sophisticated – generally the science I believe in and I do it seems to be a part of humanities and I would like to say about myself that I am rather a humanist than only a lawyer. My interest are widespread from political sciences by law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, to economy, saying shortly. What it seems to me to be the most fundamental in my research and what is the crucial idea is seeking ethical, moral and axiological foundations of the law, the state, economy, corporations and all the communities. I use very sophisticated argumentation in my reasoning, from legal to ethical and philosophical or social (even economic, religious and historic) arguments. Most of my articles relate to relations between law and morality, especially enforcement morality by the law, in theoretical and practical aspects. Some of them relate to constitutional law and the theory of power. There are some on psychology in the law (Scandinavian legal realism). Another papers concern concrete legal institutions or legal interpretation. However, in my more philosophical articles I especially consider a value of freedom in context of the law, state, morality, ethics, another moral values. Now I am flashing on ethical problems of the financial crisis, too. Philosophy of law (jurisprudence) is my most important research area. What is also the most important in my research seems to be relations between law and morality, but not only in a theoretical sense, but also practical one.
Address: Dr. Dawid Bunikowski
Law School,
Joensuu campus
University of Eastern Finland,
80100 Joensuu
Finland
I am a philosopher of law. Doing research in many areas. Like law, philosophy, anthropology, political science, economics, etc. Based in Eastern Finland, originally from North Poland. Ethnocultural Kocievian. In philosophy, a fan of, among many, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and existentialists and personalists. Legal philosopher of language. PhD on enforcement of law and morality (2009, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland). Postdoctoral research on the financial crisis as an axiological crisis: the crisis of law and the crisis of morality (University of Eastern Finland, 2013-2015). Teaches in both Finland and Poland. Occasionally, a visiting scholar in Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
It is not easy to say about yourself but as Saint-Exupery said: if you were able to evaluate yourself well enough, you would be really wise.
I am relatively young, open, full of energy and new ideas, foreign researcher (originally a Pole) living and working in Finland. Although I am a lawyer, precisely a legal theorist, a philosopher of law, my interests are very wide. My interests are both very wide and sophisticated – generally the science I believe in and I do it seems to be a part of humanities and I would like to say about myself that I am rather a humanist than only a lawyer. My interest are widespread from political sciences by law, ethics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, to economy, saying shortly. What it seems to me to be the most fundamental in my research and what is the crucial idea is seeking ethical, moral and axiological foundations of the law, the state, economy, corporations and all the communities. I use very sophisticated argumentation in my reasoning, from legal to ethical and philosophical or social (even economic, religious and historic) arguments. Most of my articles relate to relations between law and morality, especially enforcement morality by the law, in theoretical and practical aspects. Some of them relate to constitutional law and the theory of power. There are some on psychology in the law (Scandinavian legal realism). Another papers concern concrete legal institutions or legal interpretation. However, in my more philosophical articles I especially consider a value of freedom in context of the law, state, morality, ethics, another moral values. Now I am flashing on ethical problems of the financial crisis, too. Philosophy of law (jurisprudence) is my most important research area. What is also the most important in my research seems to be relations between law and morality, but not only in a theoretical sense, but also practical one.
Address: Dr. Dawid Bunikowski
Law School,
Joensuu campus
University of Eastern Finland,
80100 Joensuu
Finland
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Welfare State (NWS). The considerations are made in context of the financial crisis that began in 2007. The author considers also how the NWS ideology influenced state law and legal way of thinking in Scandinavia and, more widely, in the Nordic countries. The case of Finland is used to show how the law in both the content and methodology was changed. It is claimed the NWS is still changing because of many social or financial factors or crises. The NWS ideology is a very practical philosophy about how to provide equal opportunities (the minimum social security, access to health, free education) for everybody in a society. The social contract is a basis of the NWS. The NWS might be changed due to economic crises to some extent, of course, but its philosophy remains the same: help the weaker.
One is to shed the light on ideas of European integration in the 19th century Polish political thought represented by Wojciech Bogumił Jastrzębowski's Treatise on Eternal Alliance among Civilized Nations. The Constitution for Europe.
The second aim is to show two constitutional ways of thinking in Poland in 1919-1939: the democratic one represented by the March Constitution of 1921 and the quasi-authoritarian one represented by the April Constitution of 1935.
One is about common European values rooted in history, which should illuminate the future.
The other concerns democracy in the EU and the will of the European people to decide on the future of the EU.
The book is a result of research conducted by many members of the Sub-group of Philosophy of Law in the Arctic (the University of the Arctic). This team seems a very interdisciplinary academic group. Our cooperation bears fruit.
The aim of the book is to define and systematise Arctic legal philosophy problems. In this book, there are five thematic parts. Each part consists of two-five short articles (we can call them also chapters or papers). These are the sixteen short articles all together. Each article consists of between six and fourteen pages. So going further, what we see in the book then is, in fact, a set of both theoretical and practical papers1. The topics of these papers (chapters) are different as the authors are different while representing a wide-ranging scope of academic disciplines or specialisations. Each paper is followed by a relevant bibliography, which might be helpful for other scholars interested in the field. The seventeen writers come from such countries as Finland (4), Norway (1), Canada (3), Poland (3), Japan (2), Austria (1), Ireland (1), and England (2). Some of them have Arctic indigenous roots (3). In the end
of the book, there is a very original attachment - the map of Arctic Canada.
The recent Reut Paz's book on “A Gateway between a Distant God and a Cruel World” touches on the intellectual history which has shaped Kelsen's, Lauterpacht's and other German Jewish legal scholars’ take on international law, through Jewish theological conventions. This primary interest – due to a given European cultural background – does not mean that other cultural perspectives are not included in the project. On the contrary, the more ambitious aim would be to compare how this relation between jurisprudence, religion and peace change (or not) across the different legal and religious contexts.