Institute of Law

The Institute of Law coordinates and oversees research and fosters integration of legal professionals, both researchers and teaching-researchers, who work at the Faculty of Law in Warsaw, the Faculty of Law and Communication in Wrocław, and the Faculty of Psychology and Law in Poznań.

The Institute also coordinates publication activities. The latest publication comprises three tomes of a series Komentarze do Konstycji RP [Commentaries to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland], two edited by Professor Marek Chmaj and one by Professor Hubert Izdebski, were published recently. Subsequent tomes are in preparation.

Moreover, the Institute manages SWPS University’s research budget earmarked for studies focused on the discipline of law, and monitors its spending.

Long-Term Goals

The main goal of the Institute for the year 2020 is achieving the best possible evaluation marks in the assessment of research institutions, for the years 2017-2020.

The long-term goals are as follows:

• to increase the number of grants for law-related studies, provided by national granting bodies, and obtain European grants for studies conducted by interdisciplinary teams that include psychologists, sociologists and political scientist,
• to achieve the desired number of publications in foreign journals during the next evaluation period,
• to establish research cooperation with foreign research centers that conduct studies on human rights, medical law and European law.

Doctoral Seminars

The Institute conducts seminars for doctoral candidates in the discipline of law. The Director of the Institute is the Head of the program. Ms. Agnieszka Budrewicz coordinates the seminars.

Research Areas

Institute of Law conducts research in the following areas of law:

• constitutional law, lead by Professor Marek Chmaj
• municipal law, lead by Professor Hubert Izdebski
• criminal law, led by Professor Lech Gardocki
• medical law, led by Associate Professor Teresa Gardocka
• criminal proceedings and criminalistics, led by Associate Professor Dariusz Jagiełło
• food law and the right to food, lead by Dr. Michał Rudy, an external expert
• new technology law, led by Associate Professor Jakub Szczerbowski

The Institute also conducts comparative studies of various areas of law, under the leadership of Professor Bronisław Sitek.

Research Collaboration

The Institute collaborates with the Supreme Medical Chamber and the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights on research projects focused on medial law and human rights respectively.