Isaac, G., Kordasiewicz, S., Ngo, S., Wicherkiewicz, T., & Takasaeva, K. (Eds.). (2026). Naming and Being: Knowledges, Identities, and Cultural Politics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032629407 

This experimental volume explores how intersections between different knowledge systems affect identity formation through names and naming, bringing together anthropologists, community scholars, artists, linguists, scientists, poets, specialists in science and technology, as well as legal and Indigenous studies. This interdisciplinary approach values naming practices as creative and political acts that generate and continuously shape our world(s), as well as our relations with others—both human and non-human. By embracing diverse ways of knowing and creative modes through which naming, re-naming, or un-naming unfolds via language, art, and place-making, the authors and artists bring to the forefront implicit and explicit conflicts over the right to self-definition, as well as impositions and contestations of dominant narratives via naming. The goal is to inspire meaningful exchanges between essays, art, poetry, and ethnographic fiction, with each perspective and imaginative methodology treated as equally robust analytic tools. Political entities and top-down structures often use processes of naming to assert power. While recognizing these mechanisms of oppression are important, by bringing openness toward other positionalities regarding the complex problematics of naming and being in the world, this volume invites a wide range of scholars and practitioners to also engage with and consider the empowering and liberatory potential of names and naming in their own work.

Open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032629407 

Rozdział w książce "O przemianach kultury prawnej : Libellus amicorum  Annae Rosner dedicatus" pod redakcją prof. Andrzeja Zakrzewskiego (wyd. Campidoglio, 2025). 

W tekście analizuję zmiany w interpretacjach zasad odpowiedzialności w kontrakcie zlecenia. Publikacja dostępna tutaj. 

Jacques Cujas is one of the most respected and esteemed jurists in Western legal tradition. According to prevailing views, he was primarily focused on the interpretation of Roman law. However, this perception does not take fully into account the diversity of his contributions. Preliminary results arising from this research article indicate that under the veil of the reconstruction of ancient Roman law, Cujas presented new ideas and challenged traditional ways of approaching risk and liability. His innovative interpretation of a crucial classical text about liability rules was not limited to historical explanations of Roman law, but instead was intended to find practical solutions. The result was the first coherent liability system based on an improved reading of the Digest. This pilot study focuses on the process of designing a system of contractual liability. The research is based on the analysis of Cujas’s creative interpretation of a cornerstone text about Roman liability rules. It shows how recourse to the humanist method led to a profound change in the interpretation of fundamental legal concepts. In his commentary on classical liability standards (D.50.17.23), Cujas added several contracts that were unknown to Roman law (eg the contract of divorce). Moreover, he held that a group of four legal relationships (mandate, managing of others’ affairs, loan for use, and guardianship) should include an extremely high standard of liability. The author also redefined remaining liability criteria and allocated them to particular contracts. Thus the study argues that one of the most respected members of the historical school of French legal humanism was at the same time an ingenious liability system designer. Further research will determine if and how consistently Cujas applied this system throughout his work.

Stanisław Kordasiewicz, Designing a System of Contractual Liability: Jacques Cujas Inspired by Roman Law, American Journal of Legal History, Volume 62, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 20–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njac002  

Jacques Cujas was a French humanist and one of the most distinguished 16th-century legal experts. This paper analyses the rules governing liability and the meaning of periculum (risk) in his commentaries to Roman law.

My study is focused on two examples which offer surprising interpretations of risk. The first case concerns a person who lost an object given for valuation. Here Cujas uses the term periculum in two different meanings. The first is general and covers all types of irresistible events. The second is limited to only one type of event – theft. This distinction is fundamental for the evaluation of the legal consequences arising from the loss of the object. Te inspector would have had to bear the risk of theft (periculum furti), but not other risks, especially not those related to force majeure.

The second case I discuss deals with the complexities of risk allocation in the contract of sale. In one of his earlier commentaries, Cujas accepted the Roman legal principle of periculum emptoris – that the risk of the loss of the object sold should be on the buyer. At the same time, in his discussion of particular cases Cujas was flexible in allocating various risks to either of the parties, thus paving the way for his future change of mind on periculum venditoris.

Kordasiewicz, Stanisław. 2021. „‘PERICULUM VERBUM GENERALE EST’: RISK ALLOCATION IN THE COMMENTARIES OF JACQUES CUJAS”. Zeszyty Prawnicze 21 (4):293-331. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2021.21.4.12. 

Jacques Cujas (Cuiacius) był jednym z najwybitniejszych uczonych francuskiego humanizmu prawniczego. W artykule omówiono konkretne przykłady reguł odpowiedzialności prawnej, które zostały wyjaśnione w jego komentarzach, wskazano sposób jego rozumowania prawnego oraz postawiono pytanie o znaczenie praktyki prawniczej dla proponowanych rozwiązań. Pierwsza część zawiera ogólny model odpowiedzialności opisany przez Cujasa. Druga część skupia się na dwóch odmiennych interpretacjach zasad odpowiedzialności w umowach zastawu i pożyczki.

Kordasiewicz, Stanisław. 2020. „Odpowiedzialność Kontraktowa W Pismach Cuiaciusa – Wybrane Zagadnienia”. Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne 72 (1):137-57. https://doi.org/10.14746/cph.2020.1.8 

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