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In the British textbook on law, I read that “the law is easy to understand, but it is difficult to learn the law.” Probably the other way around than in the science of mathematics and physics, where understanding is almost learning. In my opinion, however, law learning is similar to language learning. Once I heard from a French teacher (I was only in a few lessons) that the language you need to learn a minimum of 8 years to achieve fitness. It can be used, but the grammatical rules are not clear. In law, as a rule, it is clear to lawyers what to use, but it is difficult to explain why this is what it is supposed to be.

The law largely resembles learning English Idioms and English Collocations: every idiom and collocation creates a standard for language use and that’s it. There is nothing to understand. To know how to apply is understanding. However, this is difficult. One idiom or collocation could change the fate of the nation: if Polish law allowed inheritance by women like English law, the end of the Piast dynasty would not have occurred. The whole story would have gone differently.

I read this from one of the most deserving Poles: it was Paweł Jasienica. Apparently, the attack on Pearl Harbor was foreseeable if it were not for the fact that an American secret agent in Japan did not understand the important nuance of Japanese law.