Jerzy Skorupka, O początku prawa. Szkic o historii procesu karnego w kontynentalnej Europie i Mezopotamii, Warszawa 2023, ss. 301; O procesie sądowym w starożytnych Atenach. Szkic o historii procesu karnego w kontynentalnej Europie i Mezopotamii, Warszawa 2023, pp. 439

Abstract

The subjects of the review are two books by Jerzy Skorupka, devoted to the most ancient history of the common criminal trial. The first deals with the origins of law, relating this caesura to the law of the states of ancient Mesopotamia, while the second focuses on the criminal trials of ancient Greece. Both publications consider the political, social, economic, and cultural context of the functioning of criminal justice at the time. Their cognitive qualities and the unprecedentedness in the Polish legal literature of such a thorough description of the Babylonian and Greek roots of the criminal process are essential reasons for recommending these important publications, which make up a series of further planned books on the continuing history of the criminal process.