Contents: 

1. General characteristics of Polish civil law;
2. Persons;
3. Juridical acts;
4. Obligations with particular view on contractual obligations. Sale contract in Polish law and rules on contracts for the international sale of goods;
5. Harmonization of contract law;
6. Ownership and other real rights. Transfer of immovables. Land and mortgage registers;
7. Succession;
8. Intellectual property law.

Recommended reading: 
P. Machnikowski, J. Balcarczyk, M. Drela, Contract Law in Poland, Alphen aan den Rijn 2017.
M. Habdas, Property and Trust Law in Poland, Alphen aan den Rinn 2015.
Transfer of Immovables in European Private Law, ed. L.M. Martínez Velencoso, S. Bailey, A. Pradi, Cambridge 2017.
F. Longchamps de Bérier, Law of Succession. Roman Legal Framework and Comparative Law Perspective, Warszawa 2011.
P. Machnikowski, A. Górnicz-Mulcahy, Intellectual property law in Poland, Alphen aan den Rijn 2017.

Materials prepared in the framework of the project ‘Polish private law’ carried out by the Institute of Legal Studies of Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN, Polish Academy of Sciences) available on the website http://polishprivatelaw.pl/ (www.ppl.pan.pl):

– M. Grochowski, Polish Private Law – An Overall Perspective, http://polishprivatelaw.pl/polish-private-law-an-overall-perspective/;

– K. Zaradkiewicz, Property Law – Introduction, http://polishprivatelaw.pl/property-law-introduction/;

– W. Borysiak, Introduction to Contract Law, http://polishprivatelaw.pl/introduction-to-contract-law/;

– W. Borysiak, Polish law of succession – general information, http://polishprivatelaw.pl/polish-law-of-succession-general-information/;

– J. Buchalska, J. Wosiura, [in:] Introduction to intellectual property law in Poland, http://polishprivatelaw.pl/introduction-to-intel[l]ectual-property-law-in-poland/.

Normative acts (selection):

Ustawa z dnia 23 kwietnia 1964 r. – Kodeks cywilny (Dz. U. z 2017 r. poz. 459, z późn. zm.) = the Civil Code of 23 April 1964 (Journal of Laws 2017 item 459, as amended); bilingual edition: The Civil Code. Kodeks cywilny, tłum. E. Kucharska, weryfikacja językowa M. Le Mauviel, konsultacje prawne G.E. Domański, L. Stępniak, K. Dobkowska, A. Zbiegień-Turzańska, Warszawa 2015.

United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (‘Vienna Convention’, CISG), http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/sale_goods/1980CISG.html.

Additional materials for students:

Materials relating to issues discussed during the lectures available on the Faculty website: https://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/node/26097.