Prof. Jerzy J. Wiatr, DSc – Editor-in-Chief – Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Theory of the State and Law at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw, Honorary Rector of the University, specialist in sociology, international relations and European administration. Until 2001, he was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Warsaw, where he served as Director of the Institute of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was twice president of the Polish Political Science Association (1964–1967 and 1976–1979), as well as vice-president of the International Political Science Association (1970–1982) and president of the Central European Political Science Association (2000–2003). He has lectured extensively as a visiting professor at universities in the USA (University of Michigan, Boston University, University of California, Los Angeles, Southern Illinois University), Canada (University of British Columbia), Great Britain (University of Manchester) and Belgium (Catholic University of Leuven). He has received many international awards, including the title of academic advisor at the University of Candido Mendes in Rio de Janeiro (1982), an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Science and Education Development in Kursk (2000) and honorary senator of the University of Ljubljana (2006). Since 2005, he has been a corresponding member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities in Paris. He is the author of numerous scientific publications, including 42 books (some of which have been published in the USA, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Italy and Hungary) and 600 articles and scientific dissertations published in nearly 30 countries.
e-mail: jwiatr@ewspa.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8632-7669
dr hab. prof. EULA Barbara Bajor – Deputy Editor-in-Chief – Professor at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw. She obtained her postdoctoral degree on the basis of her academic achievements and her postdoctoral thesis entitled ‘Electronic banking. A legal study’. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Institute's Department of Private Law. In 1998–2003, she was a lecturer at the University of Information Technology, Management and Administration in Warsaw, in 1998–2003 at the European Banking Law Study Centre of the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and since 1999 she has been a lecturer at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw. From 2003 to 2007, she served as Vice-Dean for Student Affairs at the latter university, and from 2007 to 2014 as Dean of the Faculty of Law. She is the author of numerous scientific publications. Her research interests focus on private law, banking law and legal issues related to the payment services market.
e-mail: bbajor@ewspa.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1647-3297
Members:
dr Magdalena Dziedzic – Graduate of the European University of Law and Administration and Applied Linguistics and the School of Spanish Law at the University of Warsaw, scholarship holder at the European University Institute in Florence and the Academy of European Law in Trier. She has conducted research at the Complutense University of Madrid and completed numerous research internships, including in Germany and Italy. Her doctoral thesis on the information obligations of financial institutions received an honourable mention from the Financial Ombudsman. She specialises in civil law and currently focuses primarily on the law of new technologies, in particular artificial intelligence and smart contracts, as well as consumer protection law and financial services.
e- mail: mdziedzic@ewspa.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0649-1763
Prof. Artur Kotowski – Head of the Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Member of the Office of Studies and Analyses of the Supreme Court. Author of several dozen publications on the theory and philosophy of law and criminal law, including several monographs.
e-mail: a.kotowski@uksw.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8284-241X
Members – advisors:
Dr Tamar Gegelia – Her research interests include theories of criminalisation and gender-based crime, and she is currently working on rape law. She obtained her doctorate in law in Georgia in 2018. In 2020-2021, she wrote her habilitation thesis at the University of Bern under the supervision of Prof. Martino Mona. In 2023, at the invitation of the same professor, she returned to the University of Bern as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on rethinking rape law. She later continued her work at the Max Planck Institute as a visiting scholar. She is a lecturer at Ilia State University and the Caucasus University School of Law.
e-mail: tgegelia@cu.edu.ge
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1420-4766
Prof. Laura Miraut Martín – Professor of Philosophy of Law, Director of the Department of Basic Legal Sciences at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she obtained her PhD in Law. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and has complemented her training with long-term stays at universities in Bologna, Hanover, Southampton and New York. Before becoming head of the department, she was also vice-dean of the Faculty of Legal Sciences and director of the doctoral programme ‘Legal Decision: Facts and Norms in Legal Argumentation’ at the University of Las Palmas, director of institutional relations at the University's Foundation, and a member of the board of the Spanish Society of Philosophy of Law and Politics. Since 1998, she has been an associate judge at the Provincial Court of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Principal investigator and member of several competitive research projects funded by public entities, and scientific coordinator and academic director of more than 20 contracts, agreements or R&D&I projects with public or private administrations and other entities. His research interests include judicial decisions, migration issues, human rights and new technologies. Coordinator of the Educational Innovation Group (GIE-25) ‘Lawyers facing the challenge of European convergence’, ULPGC, which received a distinction of excellence in 2021 as a group distinguished by its trajectory. Coordinator of the Educational Innovation Group (GIE-25) ‘Lawyers facing the challenge of European convergence’, ULPGC, which received a distinction of excellence in 2021 as a group distinguished by its trajectory. Evaluator and reviewer of R&D&I projects and articles for various national and international institutions.
e-mail: laura.miraut@ulpgc.es
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4397-4361
Prof. Aleksander Waszkiewicz – Specialist in constitutional law. In 1996, he was elected to the Constitutional Court of Belarus, but resigned after the November 1996 referendum. He worked as an associate professor at the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law at the Belarusian State University in Minsk. In May 2014, he won an international competition for the position of professor at the European Humanities University in Vilnius. He lectures on European law, comparative constitutional law, human rights law, the history of legal doctrines, and the law of international organisations. He was a Fulbright scholar in 1995 (American University, Washington College of Law) and a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010). He is the author and co-author of 120 books and scientific articles, of which over 30 articles have been published in 8 European countries and the United States of America. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, co-author of the OSCE Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and the Venice Commission, member of the International Law Association and the International Association of Constitutional Law. He is a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus.
mail: avashkevich7@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1886-4010
Tadeusz T. Nowacki - Editorial Secretary
Daria Pajek - Deputy secretary of the editorial office
Małgorzata Głuszczak-Draczuk - Graphic Editor