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Biographies of Members of the Programme Board

prof. Tomasz Szanciło - Doctor habilitus of law, Professor and the Head of the Department of Private Law at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw, judge of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court. The author of several dozens of publications on substantive and procedural civil law, transport law, economic law, commercial law and antitrust law. The author of commentary on the legislative act – Transport Law, editor and co-author of the commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure. Academic teacher and lecturer in i.a. the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Cracow and District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw. He has been involved in the judiciary system for over 20 years and has experience in every position of the career path.
e-mail: tszancilo@ewspa.edu.pl

prof. Roman Wieruszewski - professor and the Head of the Department of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw. Since September 1, 2021 he has been occupying the position of Pro-rector for Education and Learning, former member and vice-chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee.  In 1969 he graduated from Faculty of Law at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1973 he obtained a Ph.D. degree in political sciences at the same University. He habilitated in 1984 at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. On December 23, 2010 he received an academic title of Professor of the legal sciences. Between 1969 and 1973 he worked as an academic teacher at the Adam Mickiewicz University. In 1975 he became a research associate at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.  In 1988 as a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship he completed an academic internship at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. He delivered lectures at Universities in Munich, Bohemia, Mainz and others. He became an associate professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since the late 80s he has been mainly focused on human rights issues. He was working with Tadeusz Mazowiecki when he was a special UN envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. From 1996 to 1998 he was leading the United Nations High Commissioner’s mission dealing with human rights headquartered in Sarajevo. Between 1998 and 2000 and again between 2003 and 2006 he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and between 2003 and 2004 he was the vice-chairman of this Committee. He became the director of the Human Rights Centre in Poznań, OSCE expert on human rights, member of the editorial office in ‘Legal Studies’, Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, programme board of the ‘Panoptykon’ Foundation, programme board of the Strategic Litigation Programme. In 2017 he became a member of the programme board of the Wiktor Osiatyński Archive.  He is an author, a co-author and an editor of numerous scientific publications concerning human rights and international organizations dealing with this issue. He is a co-founder of the Polish Constitutional Law Association. His main fields of interest are international system of human rights protection and constitutional law. e-mail: wieruszewski@ewspa.edu.pl

prof. Richard Alber- William Stamps Farish, professor of law, is an adjunct lecturer and director of constitutional studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published more than 30 books on constitutional reform and democratic constitutionalism, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press). He has held visiting faculty appointments around the world, including as the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale University and as the inaugural Allan Rock Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. He has twice been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto and he has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at FGV Direito in Brazil, Externado University of Colombia, Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo in Ecuador, Airlangga University in Indonesia, and at Reichman University in Israel. A global leader in constitutional studies, he is Co-President of the International Society of Public Law, founding director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, and a consultant to governments and multinational organizations on constitution-making. Born in Quebec to a Haitian mother and Trinidadian father, he is a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada and a graduate of Yale, Oxford, and Harvard. ORCID 0000-0001-5212-5292       e-mail: richard.albert@law.utexas.edu

prof. Lilija Acziłowa / prof. Liliya Achilova 

prof. Ignacio Ara Pinilla - Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Philosophy of Law at the University of La Laguna. Graduate in Law from the University of Valladolid with the Extraordinary Degree Award. Doctor in Jurisprudence from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, having obtained the Luigi Ravà Prize for the best thesis in the field of Public Law and Philosophy of Law.  Before obtaining the Chair, he completed his training at the Sorbonne University in Paris and at the Academy of International Law in The Hague. He has then developed multiple teaching and research activities at numerous Universities such as the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the Javeriana University in Bogotá in Colombia, the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, the Moreno University in Bolivia, the Public University of Mendoza in Argentina, etc.  Prior to his current position as Director of the Department, he also held the positions of Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law in Palma de Mallorca and Director of the Doctoral Programme "Human Rights and Constitutional Order" at the University of La Laguna.  Author of seven single-authored monographs and numerous articles published in journals and collective books in the field. e-mail: iarapi@ull.es

prof. Anton Bebler- Slovenian political scientist; he received an academic title of Ph.D. in political sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1971. Since 1972 he has been associated with the University in Ljubljana where he works as a professor. For many years he was a permanent lecturer at the Diplomatische Akademie in Vienna; he was also a lecturer in various universities in North America, Europe and Asia. Since the ‘90s he has worked in diplomatic service, i.a. as the Slovenian ambassador to the UN. Since 2006 he has been a member of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association. He specializes in analyzing political systems, European security issues and relations between European countries, USA and Canada as well as world terrorism issues, defence issues and nuclear disarmament. e-mail: anton.bebler@fdv.uni-is.jl

dr Trinidad Bergamasco - Córdoba University (Argentina) PhD National Public Accountant, graduated from the U.N.C. Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero Doctor in Labor Law, Social Security and Human Rights, Universidad Nacional de San Carlos de Guatemala; graduated from Universidad Empresarial Siglo 21 of the City of Córdoba. Coordinator of the Labor Advisory Area of Organización Laboral Integral (O.L.I.). Advisor to numerous companies in Córdoba in Preventive Labor Law. Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, School of Economic Sciences, UNC. Ad Honorem Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, School of Economics, UCC (Catholic University of Córdoba). Writer of publications specialized in Labor Law for Editorial Errepar and numerous national publishing houses. Speaker in numerous congresses on Labor Law and Social Security. Member of the Labor Study Advisory Committee of the C.P.C.E. (Professional Council of Economic Sciences). Former Researcher of the CeCyT (Center for Scientific and Technical Studies) of the FACPCE (Argentine Federation of Professional Councils of Economic Sciences), in the Labor area. President and founder of E.N.J.A.De.Tra (Espacio Nacional de Jóvenes Académicos del Derecho del Trabajo - Civil Association). e-mail: tbergamasco@unc.edu.ar

Dominik Bierecki, Phd- Head of the Department of Private Law at the Pomeranian University in Słupsk, advocate. Author of several dozen publications on civil law, cooperative law and EU law. Member of many international scientific organisations and law journal programme boards. Editor-in-chief of the journal "Prawo i Więź". e-mail: dominik.bierecki@sin.edu.pl

prof. Sławka Dimitrowa / prof. Slavka Dimitrova-

prof. George Goradze- is an Affiliate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law, Comparative Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. Main areas of his research are Territorial Arrangement, Territorial Policy and Territorial Conflicts, Separation of Powers and Democracy. He is author and co-author of several books and many articles. Prof. Goradze is an editor in Chief of the international journal “Orbeliani Law Review” (Georgia) and a member of scientific board of the Polish journals “Przegląd Prawa Administracyjnego” and “European Law and International Relations Review”. He also is a member of the International Society of Public Law. e-mail: g.goradze@sabauni.edu.ge

prof.  Antonios Karaiskos - (LL.M., Athens University, Greece; LL.D., Waseda University, Japan) is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Ryukoku University, Japan. His expertise includes civil law and consumer law.  Dr. Karaiskos has taught at various universities in Japan, including Kyoto University and Kansai University, as well as internationally at institutions such as the University of Malaya (Malaysia), Thammasat University (Thailand), Suor Orsola Benincasa University (Italy), Tashkent State University (Uzbekistan), and Ho Chi Minh City Law University (Vietnam). A former lawyer in Greece, he is currently a research fellow at INTI International University (Malaysia) and an international academic fellow at the Malaysian Center for Satellite Universities Education (PPSU). He is also a member of the board of directors of the Japan Association of Consumer Law, the Association for Countermeasures Against Dark Patterns, and the Kansai Consumers Support Organization (a Specified Qualified Consumer Organization certified by the Prime Minister of Japan). Additionally, he is a fellow of the New Future Vision Forum of the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency and participates in the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency’s Strategic Headquarters for Frontiers of Consumer Policy's "Public-Private Collaboration Roundtable on Building Trust to Support Better Consumer Life in the Digital Age." He is involved with the Information and Communication Law Study Group of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the International Cooperation Network for a Sustainable Society in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Dr. Karaiskos is also a member of several editorial and scientific boards, including the Asian Crime and Society Review (Thailand), the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights (Italy), the European Journal of Privacy Law and Technology (Italy), the Journal of Liberty and International Affairs (Republic of North Macedonia), and the Journal of Law, Market and Innovation (Italy).  In recognition of his contributions to consumer law, Dr. Karaiskos received the "Practical Academic Award" at the 5th Tsuya Hirotaka - Consumer Law Academic Practical Awards on November 2, 2021. This award is presented biennially to the most distinguished consumer law scholars in Japan. e-mail- karaiskos@ymail.ne.jp

dr Adeola Olufunke Kehinde - she attended University of Ado- Ekiti where I obtained Diploma in Law in 2024. I proceeded to the University of Ilorin where I obtained LLB in the year 2010. I was called to the Nigerian Bar on February 14, 2012. I also obtained LLM from the University of Ilorin in 2014 and PhD from Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State Nigeria in the year 2017.
I joined the services of Ajayi Crowther University Oyo, Oyo State Nigeria in the year 2015 and
rose to the position of lecturer I before leaving the University voluntarily in the year 2020. I
joined Federal University Oye-Ekiti in February 2020 and rose to the position of Reader in 2024.
She is also an adjunct lecturer with Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State Nigeria where I
teach post graduate students.She is currently the Head of Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law, Federal university Oye-Ekiti; the position I have held since 2023. I am a member of the University Senate since 2023, Member, Directorate of Quality Assurance, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State Nigeria, Member, University Central Research Board, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State Nigeria
2021, among others. I have headed several committees and panels within the University.
She has more than forty publications to my credit both at national and international level of which
twelve of them are indexed in Scopus indexed journals. She has also attended several local and
international conferences which gave me the opportunity of meeting with colleagues across the
globe. In the year 2018, she was at the Fifth International Mercantile Law Conference organised by
the Department of Mercantile Law, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
held between 31 st October and 1 st October 2018 where I presented a paper.
She is an editor for some learned journals which include but not limited to Federal University Oye
Ekiti Law Journal. I have also reviewed so many articles for publication in learned journals
within and outside Nigeria. I edited a book on Nigerian Legal Methods titled “Essentials of
Nigerian Legal Methods” in the year 2017. She is  a member of the following bodies: Nigerian Bar Association, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT). I was sworn in as a Notary Public of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the Chief Justice of Nigeria in 2023. I have a law firm, Kehinde Adeola and Co. (Royal Chambers), which was established in 2013. She has done so many cases at the Magistrate Court up to the Court of Appeal in Nigeria; many of these cases have been handled by our law firm on pro bono. She was  given a Letter of Commendation by the Federal University Oye-Ekiti 2024 for an outstanding performance in the University. I was the best student, Junior Secondary Certificate Examination (JSCE), Ayedaade Local Government, Osun State, Nigeria in 1996 and was given a scholarship to that effect. I have won several awards which include Lecturer of the year 2017, An Award by the Law Students’ Society, Ajayi Crowther University, Award of Excellence 2019: An Award by the Law Students’ Society, Ajayi Crowther University, Award of Excellence 2024: An award by Mass Communication Students Association Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Award of Excellence 2024: An award by the Law Students Society Federal University Oye-Ekiti. She has taught several undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and I have supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate students.Her areas of interest are Environmental law, Telecommunications Law, Human right, and Judicial system. e-mail: princessadeola2000@gmail.com