RPEiS – interdisciplinary long duration, achievements and challenges

Abstract

This occasional text was prepared to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the journal Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny (RPEiS). In the modern, highly turbulent world – a world of growing uncertainty concerning the future directions of changes, where Taleb’s black swan syndrome seems to be intensifying – achieving long duration can be considered as a success in itself. With regard to RPEiS, there are many indications that the source of the journal’s long-term success is its interdisciplinary nature, as well as the high substantive quality and holistic nature of the texts published. They have all the following qualities: scientific and research focused, popularizing, educational, and expert-consultative. This creates a favourable basis for the development of a relatively new research trend, namely the economic analysis of law. This is all the more important as this area of scientific research is still rather underestimated in Poland.