Review: Iwona Sierpowska, “Śmierć w ujęciu prawa administracyjnego”, Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2020, pp. 385

Abstract

The reviewed monograph is the first study of this kind in the Polish doctrine of administrative law. It consists of a short introduction, five chapters, each of which is closed with a few-page selection of the jurisprudence of common and administrative courts, and an ending with a summary of the presented considerations and eight de lege ferenda remarks, as well as an extensive bibliography. The author analyzed a number of acts of different legal force concerning the administrative and legal consequences of death for the relatives and society. Attention was paid in particular to the issues of death of the guardian of a public administration body, the obligations of the medical facility towards the patient and his family, the preparation of a death certificate, handling of the corpse and the location of cemeteries.