An interview with Tomasz Giaro by Maciej Jońca

Abstract

Tomasz Giaro is one of the most renowned Polish scholars of Roman law. Born on 22 January 1951 in Wrocław, he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw in 1972. He defended his PhD there in 1978, with a dissertation on excusatio necessitatis, and obtained his habilitation in 1988 based on the monograph Dogmatische Wahrheit und Zeitlosigkeit in der römischen Jurisprudenz. Among his various appointments was a research position at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. In 2011, he was awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prize for his interdisciplinary analysis of the concept of truth in legal doctrines from antiquity to the present. In this interview, Tomasz Giaro discusses the significance for legal history of figures such as Leon Petrażycki, Max Kaser, Henryk Kupiszewski, Reinhard Zimmermann, Paul Koschaker, and Pier Giuseppe Monateri.