Barankiewicz Tomasz, Przywora Bogusław, On Methodological Unity and Diversity of Legal Sciences: A Contribution to Basic Methodological Research

The subject of this paper is the methodological unity and diversity of legal sciences. The primary motive that prompted the authors to take up the issue referred to in the title of this article was the positive attempts to define the methodological nature of legal sciences and a proposal for the integration model and similar recent attempts to create an integral methodology on the basis of the philosophy of science. The main research goal of the study is constructivist, not critical. This does not mean that the authors dis-regard the existing critical literature (via negativa) that denies the unity of legal sciences in the context of transformations in contemporary research methodology. Instead, the authors argue in favour of the integrative model (unity in multiplicity). In view of the foregoing, the novelty of this study is based on the extension of argumentation. The methodological issues of legal sciences cannot be limited to methods only, but should be subject to consideration...