Professeur au Centre pour l'Europe de l'Université de Varsovie ; titulaire de la chaire Challis de droit à l'Université de Sydney
Present Positions:
- Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Law (since 1 August 2009). Before: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Legal Philosophy (Personal Chair).
- Professor at the University of Warsaw, Centre for Europe (since 2006).
Past Academic Positions
- Professor of Philosophy of Law, European University Institute in Florence, Department of Law (1999-2009). Head of Department in 2003-6.
- Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, The University of Warsaw (1972 - 1981).
- Visiting professor at Penn Carey School of Law, University of Pennsylvania (Bok Visiting International Professor Spring Term 2026).; Princeton University (Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the University Center for Human Values, , Spring term 2024 and 2025); Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School (Spring Term 2023, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2015), Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law School (Spring Term 2021, 2016, 2014), Floersheimer Distinguished Visitor at Cardozo Law School (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), Also: visiting professor at Rutgers University (2022), Fordham Law School (2019), University of Haifa School of Law (2017), National University of Singapore (2016), University of Trento Faculty of Law (2010, 2011, 2012), Saint Louis University School of Law (1998); Cornell University School of Law (1995-96) etc.
Fellowships
- University of Amsterdam (2017); Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, International (Non-Resident) Scholar under the Academic Fellowship Program in Ukraine, Higher Education Support Scheme, Open Society Foundations (2014 and 2015); The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, New York University Law School (2013-2014); University of Hong Kong (1993), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (N.I.A.S.) in Wassenaar (1988-89) etc
Membership in governing/programme/editorial boards
- Member of the Global Rule of Law Commission at EPLO (European Public Law Organization) and member of governing/advisory boards of I.CON-S, International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights (Polish branch), Institute of Public Affairs (ISP, Poland).
- Member of editorial/advisory boards of International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), European Law Open, European Constitutional Law Review, Elgar Studies in Legal Theory (series editor), etc.
- Affiliated Academic Collaborator, Istituto di Diritto, Politica e Sviluppo, Scuola Sant’Anna, Pisa (since 2018).
Keynote papers and presentations
- Delivered at several international conferences, including the World Congresses of the International Association of Constitutional Law and ICON-S, as well as in the European Parliament (2020), the Constitutional Tribunal of Portugal, etc.
PhD supervision
- Supervised 18 PhD students (all successfully defended) in the University of Sydney School of Law and the European University Institute in Florence.
Academic and Professional Qualifications:
- 2008: Full Professor of Law (appointment by the President of Poland).
- 1992: 'Habilitacja' (post-doctoral degree): The University of Warsaw.
- 1977: Ph.D. (Dr.juris): The University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law.
- 1976: Diploma, postgraduate studies: Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales; Nice, France.
- 1974: Diploma: Collège Universitaire d'Études Fédéralistes; Aosta, Italy (Summer Studies).
- 1972: LL.M: The University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law.
Prizes, Honours:
- Minister of Justice, Republic of Poland, Award for contribution to the Polish system of justice, 13 March 2024.
- Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA) award for “promotion of democracy and the rule of law” (co-awarded with Agnieszka Holland), 1 April 2024.
- The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Award "in recognition of the work of a scholar who has achieved excellence in the social sciences" (1988).
- First prize of the `Państwo i Prawo' (`State and Law') journal for the best Ph.D. thesis written in 1977.
Publications
- 40 books, including 14 single-authored monographs, most recently: La minaccia populista alla democrazia (Il Mulino, Bologna 2025), Constitutional Public Reason (Oxford University Press 2023), A Pandemic of Populists (Cambridge University Press 2022), Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2019), Rights Before Courts: A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe (Springer: Dordrecht, 2005 and 2014), Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2012); Equality and Legitimacy (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008), Freedom of Speech and Its Limits (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), etc.
- 59 chapters in books, including, most recently, in: Giuliano Amato, Benedetta Barbisan and Cesare Pinelli (eds.), Rule of Law vs Majoritarian Democracy (Bloomsbury: London 2021); Adrienne Stone & Frederick Schauer, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2021); Gerald L. Neuman, ed., Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2020); Mark A. Graber, Sanford Levinson and Mark Tushnet, eds., Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2018), etc.
- 99 articles in academic journals, including in European Constitutional Law Review, Comparative Constitutional Studies, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Global Constitutionalism, etc.
- Frequent op-ed style articles in Polish press, mainly in Gazeta Wyborcza, on current legal and political issues.
