Juliusz Bardach

Juliusz Bardach (3 November 1914, in Odessa – 26 January 2010, in Warsaw ) was a Polish legal historian. Professor of the University of Warsaw, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specialized in the history of governance and law of Lithuania and Poland.

Military attaché in Moscow (1945–1947). He received his Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University in 1948 upon dissertation supervised by Adam Vetulani. He received Doctor honoris causa from the University of Łódź (1995), University of Warsaw (1996) and the University of Vilnius (1997). Bardach was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2002) and the Officer's Cross of the Lithuanian Order of Merit (2006).

He was the older brother of surgeon and Gulag survivor Janusz Bardach, author of Man Is Wolf to Man.

Jan Baszkiewicz was among his doctoral students.

Selected works Historia państwa i prawa Polski do połowy XV wieku (1957) Historia państwa i prawa polskiego (1976, with Bogusław Leśnodorski and Michał Pietrzak, ) Themis a Clio czyli Prawo a historia (2001, )

Dzieje Sejmu Polskiego (1993, ) O dawnej i niedawnej Litwie (1988, ) Historia ustroju i prawa polskiego (1993, ) O Rzeczpospolitą Obojga Narodów (1998, ) Statuty litewskie a prawo rzymskie (1999, ) W obiektywie nauki i w lustrze pamięci (o uczonych, pisarzach i politykach XIX i XX wieku) (2004, )