Abstract

This article offers a quantitative and qualitative comparison of three groups of Czech and Polish legal acts: constitutions, civil codes and commercial company legislation. Linguistic kinship between Czech and Polish does not entail stylistic kinship of legal texts. The Polish Constitution is markedly more extensive and axiological, whereas the Czech Constitution remains closer to a framework model. This relation is reversed at the level of the civil codes. The differences reflect distinct legislative strategies and have consequences for legal translation and the teaching of languages for specific purposes.

Keywords

  • legal linguistics
  • comparative statistics
  • Czech law
  • Polish law
  • constitution
  • civil code
  • commercial companies
  • legal translation
  • legislative style
  • corpus linguistics

About the author

Ewa Michalska

Bielsko-Biała, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6373-6117

Ewa Michalska is rooted in Polish Silesia. She studied Bohemistics and completed her doctorate in Slavic languages. Her work concerns false friends and a contrastive view of Polish and Czech, above all in law, legal terminology and drafting technique, and in specialist terminology. From this line of research come her published studies and her forthcoming qualifying thesis.

How to cite

MICHALSKA, Ewa. Comparative Statistics of Systemic and Structural Differences in the Czech and Polish Legal Codes. Global Insights & Research Network [online]. 2026, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 131–142. ISSN 3029-8318. Available from: https://girn.uk/2-2026/comparative-statistics-czech-polish-legal-codes/

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