Prof. Tomasz Szanciło – Professor at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw, Head of the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure, Justice of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland. Graduate of two faculties: law and economics. Author of nearly 100 publications in the field of substantive and procedural civil law, transport law, economic law, commercial law and antitrust law. Author of a commentary on the Transport Law Act, editor and co-author of a commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure. Academic teacher and long-time lecturer at, among others, the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Krakow and the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw, he also conducted training courses for judges and legal advisers. He has been in the judiciary for over 20 years and has gone through all its levels – from court clerk, through court assessor and judge of all levels, to the Supreme Court. He has completed research internships in Poland and abroad, including in Portugal and Romania, and was a visiting professor at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a member of, among others, the Programme Council of the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution and the Science Evaluation Committee, as well as scientific councils of journals in Poland and abroad (in Spain, Portugal, Romania, and Georgia).

e-mail: tszancilo@ewspa.edu.pl

 

Prof. Roman Wieruszewski – Rector of the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw, professor and Head of the Department of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw, former Vice-Rector for Science. Former member and Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee. In 1969, he graduated in law from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1973, he obtained a doctorate in political science from the same university. He obtained his postdoctoral degree in 1984 at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. By decision of the President of the Republic of Poland on 23 December 2010, he was awarded the title of professor of legal sciences. In 1969–1973, he worked as an academic teacher at Adam Mickiewicz University. In 1975, he became a researcher at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1988, he was a research fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He lectured at this university, as well as at universities in Bohem and Mainz, among others. He became an associate professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since the second half of the 1980s, he has been involved in human rights issues. He was, among others, a collaborator of Tadeusz Mazowiecki when he served as the UN Special Envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. Od 1996 r. do 1998 r. stał na czele misji Wysokiego Komisarza Narodów Zjednoczonych do spraw Praw Człowieka z siedzibą w Sarajewie. W latach 1998–2000 i 2003–2006 zasiadał w Komitecie Praw Człowieka ONZ, w tym jako jego wiceprzewodniczący w okresie 2003–2004 roku. From 1996 to 1998, he headed the mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights based in Sarajevo. Between 1998 and 2000 and 2003 and 2006, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, including as its vice-chairman between 2003 and 2004. He also became the head of the Poznań Human Rights Centre, an OSCE human rights expert, a member of the editorial board of Studia Prawnicze, the Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the programme council of the Panoptykon Foundation, and the programme council of the Precedent Cases Programme. In 2017, he became a member of the programme council of the Wiktor Osiatyński Archive. He is the author, co-author and editor of numerous scientific publications on human rights and the international institutions dealing with them. He is a co-founder of the Polish Society for Constitutional Law. His main research interests are the international human rights protection system and constitutional law.

e-mail: wieruszewski@ewspa.edu.pl

 

Prof. Richard Albert – William Stamps Farish Professor of Law, contract lecturer and director of constitutional studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published over 30 books on constitutional reform and democratic constitutionalism, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press). He has lectured around the world, including as a visiting professor in the Canadian anniversary programme at Yale University and as the inaugural Allan Rock visiting professor at the University of Ottawa. He has twice been awarded the title of visiting professor of law at the University of Toronto, and has also been a visiting professor of law at FGV Direito in Brazil, Externado University in Colombia, Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo in Ecuador, Airlangga University in Indonesia, and Reichman University in Israel. He is a world leader in constitutional studies, co-chair of the International Society of Public Law, founding director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, and a consultant to governments and international organisations on constitutional development. Born in Quebec to a Haitian mother and Trinidadian father, he is a former official of the Supreme Court of Canada and a graduate of Yale, Oxford, and Harvard.

e-mail: richard.albert@law.utexas.edu

 

Prof. Liliya Achilova – Professor at the Faculty of Economic Law at the State Law University in Tashkent. She is the author of over 100 scientific publications and an expert in the field of economic and corporate law and the tourism industry. She specialises in legal regulations concerning entrepreneurship, in particular in the field of tourism and hotel services in the context of digitalisation, with 17 years of practical experience in legal support for businesses (hotels, restaurants, retail, healthcare), digital business transformation, risk management, MICE tourism, GR (government relations). Trainer-mediator at the Mediation Centre in Tashkent, arbitrator at the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Association of Arbitration Courts of Uzbekistan, international business trainer in MBA and EMBA programmes at AlmaU, the Higher School of Business and Entrepreneurship at the Council of Ministers of Uzbekistan, the Academy of Banking and Finance, and Kazimierz Wielki University (Poland). He is also a national expert in UNDP, USAID and Council of Europe projects (anti-corruption, gender equality, tourism statistics, drafting of legislation), and vice-chairman of the Antimonopoly Expert Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

e-mail: aliliya.achilova@mail.ruull.es

 

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. Author of seven monographs and numerous articles published in journals and anthologies in this field. He graduated in law from the University of Valladolid with an Extraordinary Degree Award. He obtained his doctorate in law from the Università degli Studi di Bologna, receiving the Luigi Ravà Award for the best thesis in the field of public law and philosophy of law. Before taking up his chair, he completed training at the Sorbonne University in Paris and at the Academy of International Law in The Hague. He then taught and conducted research at many universities, such as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, the University of Moreno in Bolivia, the Public University of Mendoza in Argentina, etc. Before taking up his current position, he also served as 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.

e-mail: iarapi@ull.es

 

Prof. Anton Bebler – Slovenian political scientist; obtained his PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1971. Since 1972, he has been associated with the University of Ljubljana, where he is currently a full professor. For many years, he was a permanent lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna; he also lectured at numerous universities in North America, Europe and Asia. Since the 1990s, he has been active in the diplomatic service, serving, among other things, as Slovenia's ambassador to the United Nations. Since 2006, he has been a member of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association. His academic specialisations include the analysis of political systems, European security issues and relations between the countries of the Old Continent and the USA and Canada, as well as issues of global terrorism, defence and nuclear disarmament.

e-mail: anton.bebler@fdv.uni-is.jl

 

Dr Trinidad Bergamasco – Doctor at the University of Córdoba (Argentina), national public accountant, graduate of U.N.C., Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero. Doctorate in labour law, social security and human rights from the Universidad Nacional de San Carlos de Guatemala, professor of labour law and social security at the School of Economic Sciences. Coordinator of the Labour Advisory Area at Organización Laboral Integral (O.L.I.). Advisor to many entrepreneurs in Córdoba on preventive labour law, honorary professor of labour law and social security at the School of Economics, UCC (Catholic University of Córdoba). Author of publications specialising in labour law for Editorial Errepar and many national publishers. Speaker at numerous conferences on labour law and social security. Member of the Advisory Committee on Labour Studies of the C.P.C.E. (Professional Council of Economic Sciences). Former researcher at CeCyT (Centre for Scientific and Technical Studies) FACPCE (Argentine Federation of Professional Councils of Economic Sciences) in the field of labour. President and founder of E.N.J.A.De.Tra (Espacio Nacional de Jóvenes Académicos del Derecho del Trabajo – Civic Association).

e-mail: tbergamasco@unc.edu.ar

 

Prof. Dominik Bierecki – Professor of Law, Professor at the Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Head of the Department of Private Law, attorney-at-law. Author of dozens of publications on civil law, cooperative law and European Union law. Member of numerous international scientific organisations and programme councils of legal journals, editor-in-chief of the journal Prawo i Więź (Law and Bond).

e-mail: dominik.bierecki@sin.edu.pl

 

Prof. Slavka Dimitrova – Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Burgas, as well as Associate Professor II at the University of Bergen (Norway). Author and co-author of comparative law publications on the defence of insanity in criminal law. Judge and evaluator in the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition (ICCMCC), Grotius Centre, Leiden (Netherlands). Head of the Free University of Burgas Law Clinic since 2005 and local coordinator of EUNICoast (European University of Islands, Ports and Coastal Territories). Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Peace Culture and Human Rights. As a researcher, she has been involved in several projects investigating the defence of insanity in criminal law at the University of Bergen: DIMENSIONS (funded by the Norwegian Research Council), Criminal Responsibility and Mental Disorders in the World (CMI/UiB cooperation fund), COMPLEX (Horizon Europe, European Research Council (ERC)). Japan Foundation scholarship holder in 2013 at Ryukoku University, Kyoto (Japan) and Japan Society for Promotion of Science (2013, Ryukoku University).

e-mail: sdimitrova@bfu.bg

 

Prof. George Goradze – Associate 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. His main areas of research are territorial policy and territorial conflicts, separation of powers and democracy. He is the author and co-author of several books and numerous articles. He is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Orbeliani Law Review (Georgia) and a member of the scientific councils of two Polish journals (‘Przegląd Prawa Administracyjnego’ and ‘Przegląd Prawa Europejskiego i Stosunków Międzynarodowych’). He is also a member of the International Public Law Association.

e-mail: g.goradze@sabauni.edu.ge

 

Prof. Antonios Karaiskos – LL.M., University of Athens, Greece; LL.D., Waseda University, Japan, is a professor at the Faculty of Law at Ryukoku University in Japan. His expertise includes civil law and consumer law. He has lectured at various universities in Japan, including Kyoto University and Kansai University, as well as at international 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 University of Law (Vietnam). He is currently a research fellow at INTI International University (Malaysia) and an international research fellow at the Malaysian Satellite University Education Centre (PPSU). He is also a board member of the Japan Association of Consumer Law, Patterns, and the Kansai Consumers Support Organisation (Specified Qualified Consumer Organisation, certified by the Prime Minister of Japan). In addition, he is a member of the New Future Vision Forum of the Japan Consumer Affairs Agency and participates in the ‘Public-Private Collaboration Roundtable on Building Trust to Support Better Consumer Life in the Digital Age’ of the Japan Consumer Affairs Agency Strategic Headquarters for Frontiers of Consumer Policy. He is involved in 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. He 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), European Journal of Privacy Law and Technology (Italy), Journal of Liberty and International Affairs (Republic of North Macedonia) and Journal of Law, Market and Innovation (Italy). In recognition of his contribution to consumer law, he received the Practical Academic Award at the 5th Tsuya Hirotaka – Consumer Law Academic Practical Awards (2 November 2021) – an award given every two years to the most outstanding scholars in the field of consumer law in Japan.

e-mail: karaiskos@ymail.ne.jp

 

Dr Adeola Olufunke Kehinde – Attended Ado-Ekiti University, where she obtained a law degree. In 2010, she obtained an LLB degree from the University of Ilorin and on 14 February 2012, she was called to the Nigerian Bar. She also obtained an LLM degree from the University of Ilorin in 2014 and a PhD from Igbinedion University Okada in Edo State, Nigeria, in 2017. She joined Ajayi Crowther University Oyo, Oyo State Nigeria in 2015 and was promoted to the position of lecturer I. In February 2020, she moved to Federal University Oye-Ekiti and was promoted to the position of reader in 2024. She is also an assistant professor at Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Since 2023, she has been the head of the Department of Private Law at the Faculty of Law, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, where she also holds other positions (e.g. she is a member of the quality assurance board and a member of the central research council). She is the author of over 40 national and international publications, 12 of which have been published in Scopus-indexed journals. Her areas of interest include environmental law, telecommunications law, human rights and the judicial system. She is the editor of academic journals, including the Federal University Oye Ekiti Law Journal, and a member of the following organisations: the Nigerian Bar Association, the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) and the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT). She runs the law firm Kehinde Adeola and Co. (Royal Chambers), founded in 2013, and in 2023 she was sworn in as a notary public of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She has handled numerous cases in the Magistrates' Court up to the Court of Appeal in Nigeria; many of these cases were handled pro bono. She received a letter of commendation from the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti 2024 for her outstanding achievements at the university and has won several awards (Lecturer of the Year, Award of Excellence).

e-mail: princessadeola2000@gmail.com

 

Prof. Michał Kowalski – Professor at the Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw in the Department of Constitutional Law. In 2010, he obtained a PhD in law from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and in 2019, he obtained a postdoctoral degree in law from Kozminski University in Warsaw. He is the author or co-author of several dozen scientific publications, including four scientific monographs. He participated in the implementation of a research grant and was an assistant supervisor in doctoral proceedings. Since 2015, he has been the head of the Institute of Comparative Law of EU Legal Systems at the European University of Law and Administration and the supervisor of the Constitutional Law Research Club operating at the Kozminski University in Warsaw. He has given lecture series and open lectures to law students in London, Brussels, Birmingham, Glasgow, The Hague, Rome and Dortmund. As part of his efforts to popularise the case law of administrative courts, he has published 200 articles in the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and Rzeczpospolita daily newspapers. Since 2018, he has been the secretary of the Chapter and one of the reviewers in a competition for the best master's and doctoral theses, established by the President of the Supreme Administrative Court, which aims to popularise knowledge about administrative justice and promote particularly talented authors of master's and doctoral theses. He is the co-creator and organiser of a programme promoting administrative justice among Polish and foreign law students (as part of the ERASMUS programme) and high school students (the ‘Lesson in Court’ programme), Museum Night at the Supreme Administrative Court, as well as a moot court programme for high school students. Every year, he is involved in charity work, collecting donations for Poles in the east. He has 17 years of experience in the field of legal practice. He is the author of nearly 200 drafts of Supreme Administrative Court rulings. Since 21 July 2010, he has been a legal advisor, but due to his employment at the Supreme Administrative Court, his licence to practise has been suspended.

e-mail: mkowalski@nsa.gov.pl

 

Prof. Roman Kuźniar – Head of the Department of Strategic Studies and International Security at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw. Between 1990 and 2015, he was twice director of the analytical and planning department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, plenipotentiary minister at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in Geneva, director of the Diplomatic Academy, director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (2005–2007), and advisor to the President of Poland on international affairs (2010-2015). In addition, he was a titular ambassador and was awarded the French Legion of Honour. He is the initiator and editor-in-chief of the ‘Strategic Yearbook’, published since 1996. He is also the initiator of the Consortium of Academic Chairs and Departments of Strategic and Security Studies, which has been in existence since 2015. He is the chairman of the Programme Councils of the Krzysztof Skubiszewski Foundation and the W.B. Jastrzębowski Foundation ‘We, the Citizens of the EU’. His research interests include the recent history of international relations, international security issues, international human rights protection, and the foreign policy of the Republic of Poland.

e-mail: roman.kuzniar@interia.pl

 

Dr Khushboo Malik – Assistant Professor at Christ University, Delhi, with extensive academic and professional experience in constitutional law, health law, criminal law, and data protection law, including at the School of Automation and Robotics at GGIPU, the School of Design and Innovation at GGIPU East Delhi, Amity School of Law, and Bharati Vidyapeeth, Deemed University, New Delhi, and the B.S. Anangpuria Institute of Law, Faridabad. She completed her undergraduate studies (with honours) in 2012 at MD University, Rohtak, Haryana, followed by an LL.M. in corporate law in 2014 at USLLS, GGSIPU, New Delhi. She obtained her PhD in constitutional and health law from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. She is the author of academic publications in prestigious journals and books indexed by Scopus, as well as publications through IGI Global and IEEE. She is the co-editor of the book ‘Gender Equality – A Multidimensional Approach Towards Shifting Socio-Legal Paradigms in India’, which reflects her commitment to contemporary socio-legal issues. In addition to her publications, she holds two patents in the field of law. Her areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, blockchain, telemedicine, cybersecurity, data privacy regulations, criminal law, and environmental law. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching experience make her an important voice in addressing the legal complexities of new technologies, particularly in the areas of health and data protection.

e-mail: khushboo.malik@christuniversity.in

 

Prof. Wataru Miyasaka – In 2011, he became an assistant professor at the National University of Tsukuba, and in 2014, he was promoted to associate professor. In 2022–2023, he studied abroad at the University of Florence in Italy. He specialises in civil law, legal theory and history, and Roman law.

e-mail: miyasaka.wataru.gn@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

 

Prof. Felipe de la Mata Pizaña – Holds a law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (1995), which he completed with honours. He obtained a Master's degree in Law from the Universidad Iberoamericana (2001), a Doctorate in Law from the Universidad Panamericana (2009), with honours, and a Doctorate in Law and Constitutionally Recognised Freedoms from the Universidad Castilla-La Mancha (2015), which he completed with honours. At the request of the Supreme Court, the Senate of the Republic appointed him judge of the High Chamber of the Federal Electoral Court for a nine-year term, which began on 4 November 2016. He specialises in constitutional law, commercial law and human rights.

e-mail: fdelamata.pizana@te.gob.mx

 

Prof. Rubén Miranda Gonçalves – Doctor of Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Doctor of Law with international distinction, Master of Law in Administration and Public Institutions. He is a full professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, where he teaches doctoral studies in law. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Sergipe, the Damásio Educational University Centre, the Curitiba University Centre (Brazil), the Catholic University of Uruguay, the University of Chile, and the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria (Italy). He has participated in over thirty national and international seminars and conferences, giving lectures at various universities in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. He specialises in human rights, constitutional law, administrative law, new technology law and the legal protection of cultural property.

e-mail: ruben.miranda@usc.es

 

Dr Mohammad Owais Farooqui – Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at the College of Law, University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), also holds a PhD in aviation law from NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad (India). He specialises in aviation law and technology law, and has made significant contributions to these fields through numerous research papers, publications and conference presentations on topics such as unmanned aerial systems (drones), space law, artificial intelligence regulations and new technologies. He is a recipient of the Assad Kotaite Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund (ICAO, Canada) and the Professor Hafeezur Rahman Merit Scholarship (AMU, India). He also serves as a member of editorial boards and a reviewer for leading journals and actively supervises postgraduate research in aviation and space law and technology-related legal frameworks.

e-mail: mfarooqui@sharjah.ac.ae

 

Prof. Giacomo Oberto – Graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law at the University of Turin (Torino) in 1980. He conducts studies and research in several areas of private law, with a particular focus on family law. He is the author of several books on topics related to Italian family law, as well as over 300 articles (in Italian, French, English and German) on private law, comparative law, civil procedure and the judicial system. Since 1984, he has been a judge at the Civil Court in Turin, where he has dealt with civil and commercial cases. In 1997, he became a judge at the Court of Appeal, and in 2004, a judge at the Court of Cassation.

e-mail: giacomo.oberto@unibo.it

 

Prof. Seweryn Antoni ‘Sev’ Ozdowski AM – Australian human rights defender and social researcher, former senior civil servant and Commissioner for Human Rights and Disability Discrimination in the Australian Government from 2000 to 2005. He is known for defending the rights of refugees, in particular children detained in Australia and seeking asylum, as well as people with disabilities and mental illness, and for his contribution to multiculturalism policy in Australia. Born in Poland, he graduated with a law degree (LLM) in 1971 and a sociology degree (MA) in 1973 from the University of Poznań, and in 1980 he obtained a PhD from the University of New England in Armidale (New South Wales). In 1984, he received a Harkness Fellowship for postgraduate studies at Harvard, Georgetown and Berkeley Universities in the USA (1984-86).

e-mail: sevozdo@gmail.com

 

Prof. Krzysztof Pałecki – Former Head of the Department of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, currently professor emeritus. Participant, coordinator and manager of numerous empirical studies, including those concerning the legal awareness of Polish society, the functioning of legal (especially law enforcement) and political institutions, legal policy, legal and political culture, political elites, democratisation and political transition processes, and legal decision-making processes. His most important research projects include: research on ‘Public opinion on the functioning of the Supreme Administrative Court’ (1996), research on ‘Axiological changes in positive law and the practice of justice’ (1998), research on the Polish public's opinion on the functioning of courts (2003), Polish-Swedish research on ‘The influence of legal doctrines on the practice of applying law’ and research on ‘Stressing Legal Decision’ (2004) and research conducted by the Global Development Network association entitled ‘Bridging Research and Policy’ (since 2004). He is a member of many international and national scientific societies, including the International Political Science Association (vice-president in 1997-2000), Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association, Political Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (currently vice-chairman, previously board member, and chairman in 1998-2004), member of the Legal Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Political Science Association (president in 1991-1994, vice-president from 1997 to present), Political Science Committee of the Polish Sociological Association, a member of the Governing Body of the Global Development Network, co-founder and member of the Board of the Central European Political Science Association, and Regional Coordinator of the Central-Eastern European Universities Network. He is also a member of the editorial board and scientific committees of numerous scientific journals.

e-mail: krzysztof.palecki@uj.edu.pl

 

Prof. Jeffrey Pojanowski – Professor of Family Law at the University of Notre Dame. He also lectures and writes on jurisprudence, legal interpretation and torts. He is co-editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He received his bachelor's degree with highest honours from Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. After completing his legal studies, he was a law clerk for then-Judge John Roberts at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Justice Anthony Kennedy at the United States Supreme Court. After completing his clerkship, he practised law in Washington, D.C., before returning to law school.

e-mail: Pojanowski@nd.edu

 

Dr Andra Nicoleta Puran – PhD, lecturer at the POLITEHNICA University of Science and Technology in Bucharest, Pitesti University Centre, Faculty of Economics and Law. She is a member of numerous scientific associations, both national and international. She is the author and co-author of over 20 books and over 100 scientific articles. She specialises in constitutional law, administrative law, legal theory and new technology law.email: andradascalu@yahoo.com

 

Prof. Carlos Jorge Quete – Researcher and diplomat; Doctor of Public International Law (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn), professor and coordinator of the Centre for Legal, Economic and Social Studies at the Faculty of Law of Agostinho Neto University, professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN), head of the Department of Strategic Studies at the Venâncio de Moura Diplomatic Academy of the Angolan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, instructor at the Centre for Strategic Studies and Analysis of the CPLP.

e-mail: carlosketa58@gmail.com

 

Prof. Fabio da Silva Veiga – Professor of Economic Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Lusófona University in Porto. He was a visiting assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria in Portugal (2022), professor of economic law at the University of Almeria in Spain (2020), approved in the PSI public competition. He was a visiting professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain (2019). He was a professor of the Abogacía master's programme at the European University of Madrid (2016-18). He obtained his PhD in Law in the field of economic law at the University of Vigo (2017), with the highest distinction and a special award for his doctoral thesis.

e-mail: fabio.veiga@ulusofona.pt

 

Prof. Jacek Sobczak – Professor of law since 1995. From 1999 to 2016, he was a judge of the Supreme Court Criminal Chamber. Until 2010, he was Head of the Department of Press Systems and Press Law at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He worked at other universities: the Ryszard Łazarski University of Commerce and Law in Warsaw and the University of Management and Banking in Poznań. From 1 October 2009 to 30 June 2019, he worked at the Faculty of Law of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, where he headed the Department of Intellectual Property Law. Since 1 October 2019, he has been working at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Academy of Economics and Humanities in Warsaw (currently: Vizja University). He specialises in press law and copyright law, as well as criminal law, the history of the state and law, and political and legal doctrines. He is the author of commentaries on the Press Law Act and the Copyright and Related Rights Act. He is a member of the Second Faculty of the Poznań Society of Friends of Science, the Polish Historical Society (member of the board in 1989–2000), Society for the Protection of Historical Monuments, Polish Society for Sports Law, Polish Society for Political Science, Polish Society for Constitutional Law. Founding member and president of the Polish Scientific Society for Press Law.

e-mail: j.sobczak@vizja.pl

 

Prof. Antonio Sorela Castillo – Researcher and professor at the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Chiapas University and human rights defender, member of Amnesty International. He obtained his habilitation in public law. The professor also teaches at the International University of La Rioja in Spain, the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Chiapas and other universities in Chiapas and elsewhere in the Americas, and is a SETEC-certified teacher in the field of human rights. He has been an external advisor in international legal disputes concerning human rights violations before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is currently a member of the Mechanism for the Protection of Journalists and Human Rights Defenders in the state of Morelos.

e-mail: prof.antoniosorela.dh@gmail.com

 

Prof. Emőd Veress – Full professor at the University of Miskolc and research professor at the Central European Academy, which is part of the same university. He also lectures at the Hungarian Sapientia University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He has participated in numerous international and national research projects. One of his areas of research is the organisation of the judiciary. He is the author of several monographs and publishes in many renowned scientific journals. He is a member of numerous editorial boards and scientific organisations, including the Central European Journal of Comparative Law and the Hungarian Yearbook of Private International Law. He has lectured at universities and conferences around the world. Among his awards are the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Award.

e-mail: emod.veress@uni-miskolc.hu

 

Prof. Beata Stępień-Załucka – Professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences at the University of Rzeszów. Author of dozens of publications on constitutional law, specialist in the field of justice and human rights. Lecturer at universities in Italy and Mexico. Intern at the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research in Italy and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain. Member of the Instituto Iberoamericano de Estudos Juridicos. Lawyer at the District Bar Council in Rzeszów.

e-mail: bestepien@ur.edu.pl

 

Prof. Anna Magdalena Zalcewicz – Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, Dean of the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences since September 2020, previously Head of the Department of Law and Administration (2015–2016) and Vice-Dean for General Affairs of the Faculty (2016–2019). She was an assistant professor at the Department of Financial Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Szczecin and at the Department of Economic Law and Public Finance at the European University of Law and Administration in Warsaw, then a professor at EULA and Head of that Department. She is a specialist in financial law and financial market law. She is the author of over 70 publications, mainly in the field of banking law, tax law and public finance law.

e-mail: anna.zalcewicz@pw.edu.pl

 

Prof. Igor Zgoliński – Professor at the Bydgoszcz University of Technology, obtained his postdoctoral degree in law in November 2014 on the basis of his dissertation entitled ‘Defamation in Polish criminal law. Issues of theory and practice’. In 2014-2019, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Academy in Bydgoszcz (formerly the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Higher School), and in 2019-2024 as Vice-Rector for Science at the same university. In 2018, he received an award from the rector of KPSW for his exceptional commitment and outstanding scientific work, his overall organisational and teaching activities, and his innovative scientific research. In 2019, he was honoured by the rector of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for his scientific and research activities. He has been a judge since 2004 and currently adjudicates in the Supreme Court Criminal Chamber. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in the field of substantive criminal law, fiscal law, executive law, criminal procedure and legal axiology. He is the co-author of commentaries on the Criminal Code, the Criminal Enforcement Code and the Fiscal Criminal Code. He has completed research internships in Poland and abroad, including in Portugal and Romania. Member of the editorial board of the journal Studia z zakresu nauk prawnoustrojowych Miscellanea (Studies in Constitutional Law Miscellanea) and member of the scientific committee of the journal Revista Ibérica do Direito (Iberian Law Journal) (Portugal).

e-mail: igor.zgolinski@pbs.edu.pl

 

Prof. Luigi Zingone – Since 2007, Head of the Departments of Business Economics and Financial Intermediary Economics (Faculty of Law) at the E-campus Telematic University. Certified public accountant since 2007. Graduated in Business Economics in 2001 and Legal Services for Business in 2005 from the University of Calabria. In the 2003/2004 academic year, he participated in a master's degree programme in tax law, as well as a master's degree course for bankruptcy experts, organised by the ‘Athena’ foundation at the University of Calabria. Since 2006, he has been working as a bankruptcy trustee at the Bankruptcy Court in Rome.

e-mail: luigizingone@yahoo.it