Studies, Research and Teaching of Professor Józef Mazurkiewicz at the Catholic University of Lublin

Abstract

The paper is devoted to studies, research and teaching of Professor Józef Mazurkiewicz, the eminent historian of law, at the Catholic University of Lublin. In 1922, he began studying at the Faculty of Law and Social-Economic Sciences. He attended a seminar on the history of law in Western Europe led by prof. Joseph Rafacz. In 1927, after the deposit of state exams, J. Mazurkiewicz received a Master’s degree in law. In the years 1926–1929 he studied history at the Faculty of Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin. At the same time he was a trainee court, which ended submitting judicial examination, and after completing his military service he completed advocate. While studying and working at the Catholic University of Lublin he wrote his publications. Also his efforts to obtain a doctor degree were discussed. On June 23, 1949, the Minister of Education decided to liquidate the Legal Section within the Faculty of Law and Social-Economic Sciences of the Catholic University of Lublin. On 1 September 1949, J. Mazurkiewicz started working at the Faculty of Law, created at the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, where he headed the Department of History of Political System and Law in Poland (since 1950 bearing the name of the Department of Polish History of State and Law).