Wrongful convictions occur from the very beginning of the organized forms of criminal justice systems. Therefore, one of the main tasks should be to minimize the risk of their occurrence, as well as the creation of effective mechanisms of reparation. Despite the importance of this issues, neither comprehensive researches, nor necessary statistical data, are available to determine the prevalence of this phenomenon in Poland. It is accompanied by common believe of law practitioners about marginality or even
absence of wrongful convictions in Poland. There is therefore a necessity to educate law students about the sources and reasons of miscarriages of justice. To fulfill this need, a project entitled: “Innocence Project - preventing wrongful convictions”, aimed at promoting the issue of miscarriages of justice, has been created at Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw.