Lech Falandish. He had the law in his small finger

Jarosław Kurski of “GW” recalls their first meeting: “I expected to see a Nobel Prize-winning professor. There's a guy in jeans and an American military jacket. He smelled like a beer in Wrzeszcz. He kept a cigaret in his teeth, though he put it out, but he kept his hand out of his pocket throughout the lecture. He smiled stupidly. It was Lech Falandish. His lecture was 1 of the better I had always heard.”

After many years, erstwhile I met Lech Falandish at the Chancellery of president Lech Wałęsa, he looked completely different: a handsome man in a suit and a tie gave me a hand, and asked, “Are you?” And I said, "Yes, it's me," and he said, "I'm Leszek." He was then the deputy chief of the law firm, and he spoke of himself as the chain dog of Wales. And he added: “...there was an alcoholic who with the aid of Baska, strong will and Esperal defeated his inferior alter ego.” Fairy, besides a lawyer, was his wife, the parent of 4 children. He was a supporter of a strong presidency. And he fought for it like a lion.

He had legal issues in his small finger. His interpretations of the tiny constitution led to a fresh word in the explanation of the law – "falandisation". The president was gaining an expanding field of action. And he liked it so much, he yet wanted to regulation the decrees... But it didn't work. The prof. stood out among another employees of the law firm – he was relaxed. Others always focused, seriously, almost “at attention”. As they were beating hundreds of letters and documents, Falandy watched it from the side and abruptly burned out: “If you don’t know what to do, it’s best not to do anything.” Sometimes he added that laziness can be the best advisor...

I liked his advice. Before he went to the law firm, he had already had the title of professor, hundreds of publications, participation in global technological societies. And even before that, in 1982, he actively participated in the events at the University of Warsaw, where he "raised enemy cheers, rejecting officers the charges utilized to disperse the crowd" – as the participants described. In another words, he liked to mess around, but erstwhile his time came, he presented his arguments in an elegant, calm and factual way.

ak was not only in front of a wide parliament audience, but besides in the silence of the cabinets. And that is why I mention Leszek Falandysz here, due to the fact that there is no specified voice in our political reality. erstwhile he was attacked in a discussion due to the fact that he made a mockery of the law, he calmly replied: “I don’t think so. I tolerate lawlessness, but within the limits of the law.”

He died of pancreatic cancer in 2003.