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Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne [CPH, Legal History Journal] is a leading Polish scientific peer-reviewed periodical dedicated to the history of law, particularly research on the history of political and legal systems, the history of political and legal doctrines, the history of Roman and canon law, religious law, and the history of law as a science. CPH publishes texts authored by scholars from Poland and abroad, especially in Polish and English, but also accepts works in German, French, and Italian. The journal is published online, and all texts are subject to an open-access policy. CPH is the oldest Polish journal in the field of legal history – it has been published continuously since 1948 and was founded by Professor Zygmunt Wojciechowski.
There are no fees for submitting, processing or publishing an article in CPH.
Published by Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, Faculty of Law and Administration. From 2021 the electronic version is the original one.
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ERIH PLUS, Crossref, CEEOL, EBSCO (Historical Abstracts, Historical Abstracts with Full Text), CEJSH, Sherpa Romeo, System Informacji Prawnej Legalis, Dimensions, Google Scholar, POLONA, Academica, Arianta, Biblioteka Nauki, Infona, NUKAT, WorldCat
Journal evaluation indicators
The Ministry of Education and Science (2024): 70
h5-index: 5
ISSN (Online): 2720-2186
ISSN (Print): 0070-2471
Parallel ISSN title: Annales d'Histoire du Droit
Articles are licensed under a Creative Commons
2016-2020 
2021-2022 
from 2023 
CPH takes part in the Initiative for Open Citations I4OC and follows the principles of the cOAlition S Plan.
The PRESSto platform digitally preserves the content of this journal using the PKP Preservation Network, which provides digital long-term preservation of data and secured access to the content of the journal.
Announcements
Online lecture by prof. Tommaso Beggio, 16.01.2025, 4 pm
Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (Legal History Journal) invites to you for the final talk of our lecture series by prof. Tommaso Beggio (University of Trento) titled A return to ancient Roman models: some remarks on the development of the idea of prison as a punishment from a historical-comparative perspective.
Link to the meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory2-4
More information: https://ias.amu.edu.pl/ias-invited-lecture-series-in-legal-history-2/
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New issue of CPH now available online!
The latest issue of Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (CPH), volume 76, issue 2 (2024), has just been published. This issue includes thirteen research articles on a wide variety of topics, along with four shorter contributions, offering over 350 pages of content worth exploring.
On this occasion, the Editorial Board of CPH extends its heartfelt thanks to the Authors and Reviewers for their fruitful collaboration in 2024. The full list of CPH reviewers for 2024 can be found at the end of the issue and on our website. Thank you!
We wish you all the best in the New Year and invite you to publish in our journal!
The full issue and individual articles can be accessed here:
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cph/issue/view/2963
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Funding for the full digitalization of CPH
The Greater Poland Law Library has once again been recognized as a laureate in the Science for Society II program – Support for Scientific Libraries, through which the first 33 volumes of Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (CPH) will also be digitalized in the near future.
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