The purpose of this review article is to evaluate the four commentaries on the instruments of internationalprotection of human rights, which has appeared recently in the Polish literature of the subject.At the outset, the author provides the characteristics of the commentaries as a form of scienti fi cstatements in genere, and then tries to reconstruct the attributes of a good commentary in specie. Tothis aim, he applies the typology of scholar lawyers proposed by the Hungarian theorist of law andconstitutionalist András Jakab. The main part of the article is the evaluation of the four comments:two of them concern the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, edited by Marek A. Nowicki and Leszek Garlicki, one to the Covenant on Civil andPolitical Rights, edited by Roman Wieruszewski and one to the Charter of Fundamental Rights ofthe European Union, edited by Andrzej Wróbel. Despite the differences in terms of form, content andmethodology, but they all deserve a very high rating.