Opis
The interpretive moment furthermore helps to gain an understanding of the entire context of understanding of the law: normative, political, and socio-cultural, and realise how this context affects how the “letter” of the law is understood at a specific point in time. The use of the interpretive moment is particularly useful when one is analysing socially controversial problems. In Poland, these include issues related to human sexuality, abortion, single-sex relationships, acceptable ways of management of human corpses, or animal rights.
An intrinsic change in the meaning of provisions of law is intuitively associated with two situations. First of all, it is strongly visible in the periods of systemic transformation, when the axiology of a state undergoes major changes in a more or less abrupt way (current changes in the understanding of provisions of the Constitution or provisions governing access to abortion in Poland). The second case concerns situations when regulations, literally unchanged, have been in force for many years in the ever-changing socio-economic realities.
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