Constitutionalisation of the right to protection of personal data in Poland

The aim of the publication is to present the origins of the right to protection of personal data in Poland the analysis the essence of this right. In the text the manner of the regulation of this right is being presented in projects of The Constitution, it describes the right’s character and relations occurrent among it and other constitutional rights and freedoms. The regulations contained in Art. 51 of the Constitution are comprehensive and provide adequate protection of the private and public information of the individual. Regulation of the right to the protection of personal data in Polish Constitution shows that nowadays the right has an essential meaning and assures a publicly protection of the information autonomy of the individual.

The aim of the article is to indicate the prevalent features of the Polish process of constitutional and systemic changes in Poland in 1989-1997. It was assumed that the Polish process of constitutionalization was characterized by a number of specific features which were interrelated and dependent on each another. The aim of the paper is to recognize the phased character of the changes as the first feature of the political transformation process in Poland, whereas compromise should be regarded as its basic attribute. Other specific features (presented in the subsequent parts of the article) include: evolutionary, temporary, and pragmatic nature of the process.

The Remembrance Policy in Poland: the System Between the Constitutional Obligation and the Instrumentalization of Law

The paper analyzes relations between the law and the system of politics of memory in Poland, integrating legal and political research. The main objective is a discussion of co-dependencies between the law – including the constitutional law – and the government’s involvement in the politics of memory. The paper summarizes the legal status, the remembrance system’s formal framework and political decisions executing the constitutional obligation of commemorating the past. Considering the complexity of the remembrance policy system in Poland, its foundation in the legal system, and the dynamics of policymaking, the Authors present that the seeming servitude of law to politics is an apparent complex interdependence based on the constitutional bases of memory politics.