Law and Justice

Law and Justice (Polish:  Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ), abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wingnational-conservativepolitical party in Poland. With 235 seats in the Sejm and 61 in the Senate, it is currently the largest party in the Polish parliament.

The party was founded in 2001 by the Kaczyński twins, Lech and Jarosław. It was formed from part of the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS), with the Christian democratic Centre Agreement forming the new party's core. The party won the 2005 election, while Lech Kaczyński won the presidency. Jarosław served as Prime Minister, before calling elections in 2007, in which the party came second to Civic Platform (PO). Several leading members, including Lech Kaczyński, died in a plane crash in 2010.

The party programme is dominated by the Kaczyńskis' conservative and law and order agenda. It has embraced economic interventionism, while maintaining a socially conservative stance that in 2005 moved towards the Catholic Church; the party's Catholic-nationalist wing split off in 2011 to form United Poland. The party is solidarist and mildly eurosceptic.

Law & Justice (journal)

Law & Justice (also known as The Christian Law Review) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic legal periodical published by The Edmund Plowden Trust. The primary focus of the journal is a Christian perspective of the law, with a particular emphasis on religious freedom, canon law, ethics and morality.

The current editor is John Duddington, former head of the Law School at Worcester College of Technology.

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