The peculiarities of the study of law and the question of integration

Kazimierz Opałek

pp. 31-48

in: Kazimierz Opałek, Selected papers in legal philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

The trend towards integrating the study of law with the other social sciences has been increasingly growing in force. This is highly commendable when integration is to be founded upon a full realisation of the specific character of the problems and issues involved in the study of law and of the importance of its previous scientific attainments, with a simultaneous realization of its deficiencies in facing the modern aims of research and the current evolution of other disciplines, of social sciences in particular. Founded upon these premises, the integrational tendency to modernize the study of law by making use of the results of those disciplines, to attain interdisciplinary research with their representatives and to extend with their aid the scope of research beyond the previous narrow bounds, can but be approved.