The Constitutional Tribunal publishes the Official Collection of the Constitutional Tribunal's Jurisdiction, and the serial book Studies and Materials which contains elaborations prepared for the use of Judges, a selection of Tribunal's judgments and conclusions, and materials from the scientific conferences organized by the Tribunal, and monographs covering different areas of law.

In 2001 the Constitutional Tribunal began publishing a new serial book edition, A Selection of Tribunal's Judgements and Conclusions. Each edition contains the conclusions of the Tribunal's jurisdiction and a brief overview of its opinions handed down within the previous six months.

The Polish Constitutional Tribunal's publishing activity has been carried on since the establishment of the institution in 1985. At the beginning the only periodical systematically published was the annual series: The Jurisprudence of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.

Publishing activity highlighting the Tribunal's jurisdiction, its activity, its scientific dimension and its international cooperation with other constitutional courts began in 1995. Since then, the responsibility for the publishing activity of the Tribunal rested within the power of the Cabinet of the President of the Tribunal, as the Presidential Department was then called. At that timeThe Official Collection of the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Tribunal (Orzecznictwo Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Zbiór Urzędowy) began to appear in print..

Next, the series Materials and Studies was created, which reflected Tribunal's scientific activity and all the events related to its work. Presently, the series also contains three commemorative books and materials from the General Assemblies of the Judges of the Tribunal.

Another series, Constitutional Courts in Europe (Sądy Konstytucyjne w Europie), is published in co-operation with the Library of the Tribunal. The Constitutional Tribunal's Bulletin (Biuletyn Trybunału Konstytucyjnego) appears in co-operation with the Department of Jurisdiction and Studies, the former Department of Analysis. The same department also prepared the following works: Constitution; Constitutional Tribunal - The collection of studies; Human Rights and the new Constitution of the Republic of Poland; and Selection of the Constitutional Tribunal's jurisprudence from 1986 to 1999, (edited in English) in 1999.

In 2000 the work, Constitutional Jurisprudence in the Area of Freedom of Religion and Beliefs, was issued in English, French, and German. This publication dealt with the 11th Conference of the European Constitutional Courts, held in Warsaw the same year.

In 2001 the current versions of the Constitution of 1997 and Constitutional Tribunal Act were published in French and in English. Two editions of the album about the Constitutional Tribunal - its composition, biographies of the judges, basic normative acts regulating its work and a short introduction concerning the history of the institution and its rules of procedure - were published in Polish and English. The first edition was edited also in French.

In 2001 the new serial edition, Selection of Tribunal's Judgements and Conclusions, "aimed at facilitating the search for the essence of the Tribunal's jurisprudence” began being published. Each volume refers to the decisions or general rules pronounced by the Tribunal during the previous half-year. One may find required information by utilizing the inserted Index of normative acts.

On the 1^st March 2001 the new and independent Editorial Office of the Tribunal's Publications was created. It is in charge of the organization and management of the publishing activity of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.

Since the second half of 1995 the Tribunal's verdicts, resolutions (since November 1997 – judgements), and decisions are announced in a special publication entitled, The Official Collection of the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Tribunal (Orzecznictwo Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Zbiór Urzędowy. Since the 1^st of January 1996 the JCT Official Collection is the only official publication containing jurisdiction of the Constitutional Tribunal. The Official Collection is published every two to three months, and is available in subscription.

Vol. I: Official performances, lectures, and works of the judges and the Office of the Constitutional Tribunal, Warsaw 1995.

Volume I inaugurates the serial edition Studies and Materials. To briefly highlight its contents, this volume contains the official pronouncements of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal concerning the Tribunal's work, experiences, and problems by professor Andrzej Zoll. A text of his lectures are also included. Although this is by no means a complete list of contents contained in this volume, other interesting chapters include: Constitutional Tribunal and Constitutional Values by professor Zygmunt Ziembiński; Trends in Changes of the Budgetary Law by professor Natalia Gajl; and How the Constitution of the Third Republic of Poland Should be Constructed by professor Wojciech Łączkowski

 

Vol. II: Constitutional Jurisdiction, No I, Warsaw 1996.

Volume: Constitutional Jurisdiction was issued in three fascicles. The first one contains materials presented during an international conference concerning constitutional jurisdiction in Lithuania and in Poland, which was held in Wigry in May 1995. The second contains works of the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal, written by professor Janusz Trzciński, the Vice-President of the Tribunal, and by the judge Ferdynand Rymarz. The last one is a bibliography, Constitutional Tribunal in Periodical Press, prepared by the Custodian of the Library of the Tribunal, Ms. Halina Plak.

 

Vol. III: Jerzy Oniszczuk, The Constitutional Tribunal's generally binding interpretation of the law. Warsaw 1995.

A monograph concerning generally binding interpretation of the law introduced by the Constitutional Tribunal.

 

Vol. IV: Constitution and the guaranties of its observance. Commemorative work dedicated to professor Janina Zakrzewska, Warsaw 1996.

Andrzej Zoll begins this book with a biography of professor Zakrzewska and a bibliography of her most important work. This book is divided into three parts: the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland-its origin, organization, scope of jurisdiction, and jurisprudence; the Constitution and constitutionalism in Poland and in the world; and Miscellanea. This book was a collaborative effort on behalf of the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, the judges of the Italian and Russian constitutional courts, scientists working in the field of constitutional law, and friends of professor Janina Zakrzewska.

 

Vol. V: Leszek Garlicki, La jurisprudence du Tribunal Constitutionnel Polonais (1991-1995), Warsaw 1997. (The jurisprudence of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland)

This is the second volume of the monograph edited in French describing the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Tribunal from 1991 to 1995. The first volume concerned the Court's jurisprudence from 1986 to 1990, was published in 1993. The annual Chronicles (Chroniques) contain articles reprinted from Annuaire Internationale Justice Constitutionnelle (Economica - Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille).

 

Vol. VI: Constitutional Jurisdiction, No 2, Warsaw 1997. (Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Polen)

The second fascicle published in German contains works of the judges of the Tribunal concerning the issues of preliminary and a posteriori review of norms; constitutional complaint; constitutional jurisdiction during the political transformation in Poland; the Constitutional Tribunal's general binding interpretation of law and some perspectives on the development of constitutional jurisdiction in Poland.

 

Vol. VII: Constitutional Jurisdiction, No 3, Warsaw 1997 (Preliminary and a posteriori review of norms).

The third fascicle contains materials from the conference of the judges of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, which was held in Tatry near Zakopane in January 1996. The Polish-Czech meeting dealt with the most important questions concerning legal theory and practice of the preliminary and a posteriori review of norms. Discussion focused on four main subjects: competencies of the constitutional courts and rules of their proceedings (lectures by judges Vladimír Jurkai and Pavel Varvařovsky); the status of the constitutional courts' judges (lectures by judges Stefan J. Jaworski and Pavel Holländer); Courts of common law and constitutional jurisdiction (lectures by judges Vojen Gütterlai and Krzysztof Kolasiński); and different models of constitutional complaint (lectures by judges Iva Brožova and Błażej Wierzbowski).

 

Vol. VIII: Halina Plak, Problems concerning Constitutional Tribunal (selection of the bibliography up to the date of 15^th October 1998), Warsaw 1998.

A selection of publications of great importance for those who work in the field of constitutional law. Volume VIII describes the history of constitutional jurisdiction in Poland, the genesis of the Constitutional Tribunal, the main courses of adjudicating, and the most interesting and controversial verdicts and problems. The book is divided into four parts:
1) Articles published in scientific magazines, monographs and collective publications, and not published works;
2). Selected articles published in the professional weeklies;
3). Selected articles in daily press and socio-cultural magazines; 3). References to the Constitutional Tribunal's jurisdiction in the common court circuit.

 

Vol. IX: General Assembly of the Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal held on the 10^th of March 1999, Warsaw 1999.

This volume summarizes the annual General Assembly of the Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal as it was held on 10 March 1999. Included in this volume is the President of the Tribunal's recapitulating speech entitled, Information About the Substantial Problems Concerning the Work and Jurisdiction of the Constitutional Tribunal. Each year, one judge delivers a lecture regarding the most interesting and controversial question in the jurisprudence that appeared during the said year. In 1998 the lecturer was Vice-President of the Tribunal, professor Janusz Trzciński's whose speech was titled, An Infringement of the Constitutional Freedoms and Rights as a Basis for Constitutional Complaint.

 

Vol. X: Constitution, form of the government, state financial system. Commemorative book devoted to professor Natalia Gajl, Warsaw 1999.

Professor Natalia Gajl was a Constitutional Tribunal judge working in the field of financial law and was especially interested in the problems concerning the transformation of the system of public finances under the new Constitution of 1997. The book was devoted to the problems closest to the professor Natalia Gajl's scope of interest. In this way her co-workers, friends, and colleagues paid homage to Gajl who eternally entered her name in the history of Polish constitutionalism. The work contains three parts: I - Problems within the political system in Poland, II - Constitutional Tribunal, III – State financial system.

 

Vol. XI: General Assembly of the Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal held on 22^nd of March 2000, Warsaw 2000.

This edition refers to the work performed by the Tribunal in 1999. It contains a detailed description of the Tribunal's verdicts passed in 1999, published in chronological order.

 

Vol. XII: Creating the law in Poland. Tradition and the present day, Warsaw 2000.

This work contains lectures delivered during the conference organized on the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Commission on the Codification - one of the most important legal institutions in the Second Republic of Poland. A lecture by professor Stanisław Grodziski entitled, The Commission on Codification - the People and Their Work refers to the history of the Commission and its activity. A lecture by doctor Jerzy Wojciechowski entitled, The Process of Adjustment of the Polish Law to the Standards of European Union, also addresses the current mechanisms of creating the law.

 

Vol. XIII: General Assembly of the Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal held on the 14^th March, 2001, Warsaw 2001

This volume contains speeches delivered to the Assembly by the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski; by the Marshall of the Sejm, Maciej Plażynski; the Marshall of the Senat , Alicja Grześkowiak; Prime Minister, Jerzy Buzek, the Minister of Justice, Lech Kaczyński; and the President of the Supreme Court, the President of the Chief Administrative Court, the President of the Constitutional Tribunal and the judges of the Tribunal. It also contains information about basic problems emerging from the activity and jurisdiction of the Constitutional Tribunal.

 

Volume XV: The Constitutional Tribunal. Commemorative Book of the XV Anniversary , Warsaw 2001

2001 was the 15 year anniversary of the Tribunal's first judgement. This anniversary year was the inspiration for a commemorative book on the Tribunal. The book contains three parts: the first two parts present personal works of the former and current judges of the Tribunal; the last presents judicial compositions.

This edition is aimed at facilitating the search for the essence of the Polish constitutional jurisprudence. Each volume refers to all the judgements and some decisions pronounced by the Tribunal during a discussed half-year. One may find required information by utilizing the inserted Index of normative acts.

Available as serial book editions: Constitution Courts in Europe (red) J. Trzciński are following volumes

Extract from the Federal Constitutional Act
The Constitutional Tribunal Act
Regulation concerning the Constitutional Tribunal

Extract from the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Constitutional Tribunal Act (translation by Leszek Garlicki)
Regulation concerning the Federal Constitutional Tribunal (translation by Jerzy Olejniczak)

Extract from the Constitution and Constitutional Acts
Common Acts and other normative acts
Rules and regulations established by the Constitutional Court

Extract from the Constitution
Principal Act on the Constitutional Council
Regulations

Extract from the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria
Constitutional Court Act
The regulation