Opis
A modern state is a state that serves its citizens, the environment, and the economy.
Undoubtedly, a country that is ascribed to the features of modernity should be characterized by an efficient administrative and legal organization. Historians have been looking for this kind of features from the beginning of the modern times among the countries of the European cultural circle.
The studies included in this issue of the legal and administrative discourse have been published under the common title Modern State. What they have in common is that they concern the most current issues, mainly in the area of a broadly understood
public law. A historical study, opening the considerations contained in this issue, illustrating the institutional life as well as the functioning and evolution of administration, answers the question whether the seventeenth-century Silesia can be included in the group of modern old-type countries.
The next study noted that over the past decades, the United Kingdom has become
a major, if not the most important, center for the settlement of international disputes. The article answers the question of how Brexit will affect the legal framework
of international disputes’ settlement, in particular the determination of the law applicable to non-contractual obligations, is therefore of crucial importance – both for UK individuals and companies but also for the European Union. There is no doubt that Brexit is one of the greatest legal challenges of recent times.
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