Czarnota Adam, Jezierska Justyna, Stambulski Michał, Introduction

This special volume of Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, the journal of the Polish Section of IVR, is devoted to issues of law and memory. Memory studies have long been an important paradigm for historians, sociologists, and cultural and literary scholars. Although lawyers joined this dialogue relatively late, the importance of the relation between law and memory becomes more and more visible. Thus, we are currently witnessing the creation of a research area within this paradigm.

One of the formal expressions of this inclusion of legal scholars was a panel Juridization of Memory in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe organized during the 2^nd Polish Memory Conference Studies on Memory in Poland and of Poland(Warsaw, 5–7 December 2019). During the panel, four presentations on the role of memory in local legal regulations were given. The discussion which followed revealed the need to collect and systematize basic concepts and thematic areas of legal memory studies. This...