Kostecki Dawid, How Much Beauty in Law? How Much Law in Beauty? A Review of Kamil Zeidler’s Aesthetics of Law (Gdańsk–Warszawa 2020, pp. 309)

Kamil Zeidler has got his readers accustomed to his sublime taste and peculiar erudition. This time, however, we are dealing not only with a fascinating subject, but also an issue that has been – consciously or unconsciously – left partially unexplored in Polish jurisprudence.

While foreign literature explored the subject of the aesthetics of law, in Polish literature the relationship between law and aesthetics, to a large degree, remained terra incognita. Kamil Zeidler’s work fills this gap. The aim of the publication is „to organize what has already been written on the subject (...) suggest a specific programme of further studies in the aesthetics of law”. Lawyers are not used to discussing beauty, but rather to fight for the client’s interests in a courtroom. At first sight, Aesthetics of Law can seem metaphysical, foggy and useless. Why discuss beauty in a lawyer’s work when it does not bring us any closer to a favourable case result? It might appear that we will be dealing with...