The figures who shape history!

Born on 14 July 1949 in Dwikozy. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. A Polish lawyer, attorney-at-law and patent attorney who served as President of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland from 2002 to 2019. She passed the judicial examination and subsequently qualified as an attorney-at-law and patent attorney, including as a European patent attorney and professional representative before OHIM (now EUIPO). In 1996 she defended her doctoral dissertation, The Representative in Patent Proceedings, at the University of Warsaw’s…

Born on 23 July 1958 in Poznań. He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1981. A lawyer and publisher whose work reshaped the toolkit of the Polish legal profession: for over three decades he headed the publishing house that carried Polish legal information from loose-leaf volumes to digital systems and AI-assisted tools. From 1981 to 1986 he was a doctoral student at the Institute of State and Law of the Polish Academy of Sciences (the dissertation was never finished), worked with the Sejm press office and in the late 1980s advised the firs…

Dominik Anc (1844–1918) was an advocate, a veteran of the January Uprising and one of the organisers of the reborn Polish bar. Born on 20 July 1844 in Jędrzejów, he attended the Higher Real School in Kielce, enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in 1860 and in 1862 entered the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw Main School (Szkoła Główna Warszawska). As a student he took part in the January Uprising, fighting among others in the battle of Małogoszcz (24 February 1863). He completed his studies in 1867 with the degree of Master of Law and began his legal apprenticeship; in 187…

He was born in 1942. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1964; at the same university he also completed a course of study in art history. An advocate, defence counsel in political trials of the communist period and a long-serving senator. After completing judicial and advocate training he began legal practice in 1971. He was connected with the democratic opposition: at the turn of August and September 1980 he was the first legal consultant to the Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee based at the Huta Katowice steelworks, and as its representat…

Born in 1873, died in 1937. He completed his law studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1896. A Russian Orthodox bishop, secular name Aleksander Smoleniec. He was born in Warsaw, into a Polish intellectual family; in his youth, he converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy. After completing his law studies in Warsaw, he undertook theological studies in Kazan, which he completed in 1902; there, he also took perpetual monastic vows and was ordained a priest. From 1905, he served as archimandrite, and in 1910, he received episcopal consecration; he served, among other places, in the Pyatigo…

Born in 1976. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. A lawyer, attorney, and publicist born in Warsaw, considered – according to the weekly “Polityka” – one of the individuals most responsible for the increased interest in geopolitics in Poland. For years, he practiced as an attorney and managing partner at a law firm specializing in business services, focusing, among other things, on economic law and intellectual property issues. In 2016, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, prepa…

Born in 1930, died in 2011. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1951. Lawyer, historian of state and law, historian of ideas, and political scientist, one of the most distinguished Polish humanists and experts on the history of France. He was born on January 3, 1930, in Warsaw and died there on January 27, 2011. In 1955, he obtained a doctorate in law, and at the age of 26, he became an assistant professor. In 1957, he moved to Wrocław, where at the University of Wrocław, he headed the Department of History of Political and Legal Doctrines, served…

He was born in 1940 and died in 2016. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1963. An advocate, defence counsel in political trials of the communist period and President of the Polish Bar Council from 1989 to 1995, he is counted among the most distinguished defence lawyers of his generation. He began legal practice in 1969. He appeared in prominent criminal cases, including the trials of workers from the Ursus plant and of participants in the 1976 Radom events, and acted as counsel for the auxiliary prosecutors in the case of the December 1970…

Born in 1913, died in 1992. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1935, obtaining a master’s degree in law. Born in Brest-Litovsk (Brześć nad Bugiem), he was an Israeli politician, Zionist leader, and Prime Minister of Israel from 1977–1983. He began his studies at the University of Warsaw in 1931; during his time in Warsaw, he was intensely active in the Zionist youth organization Betar, where he quickly rose through the ranks, assuming the role of its commander in Poland in 1938. After the outbreak of World War II, he left Warsaw; arrested by the N…

Bogdan Benczak is an attorney-at-law and manager, President of the Management Board of PZU SA, one of the largest financial groups in Central and Eastern Europe. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, postgraduate studies at the Cracow University of Economics and MBA studies at the University of Gdańsk. He has many years of experience gained in supervisory and management bodies of insurance companies in Poland and in the Baltic states. In 2008–2015 he was director of PZU's Foreign Operations Office and Business Development Office. He oversaw the…

Born in 1984. A graduate of legal studies at the University of Warsaw. Manager and lawyer, CEO of PKP S.A. and the PKP Group. His education combines legal and technical disciplines: in addition to law at the University of Warsaw, he graduated from the Faculty of Environmental and Power Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology, defended his doctorate at the Institute of Computer Science and Security at a pedagogical university in Kraków, completed specialized courses at George Washington University, Harvard University, and MIT, and also holds an EMBA in the energy sector and a Maste…

Born in 1978. A graduate of law studies at the University of Warsaw. Doctor of legal sciences and legal counsel, one of the most influential experts in the field of banking law and financial market regulation, who has for years shaped the legal and legislative environment of the domestic financial sector. He completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has been associated with the banking sector since 2003. From 2010–2020, he headed the Legal and Legislative Team of the Polish Bank Association (Związek Banków Polskich), responsible for…

Born in 1899, died in 1998. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1925, obtaining a Master's degree. A Polish lawyer, judge, and politician of the agrarian movement, one of the leaders of the Polish Underground State. Born on December 14, 1899, in Ossala. In July 1920, he volunteered for the Polish Army and fought in the Polish-Bolshevik War, and after returning from the front, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in the autumn of 1920, from where he transferred to the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw afte…

Born in 1952. A student at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw from 1969 to 1973, he obtained his Master's degree with distinction in 1973. He also completed postgraduate studies in pedagogy at the Warsaw University of Technology and postgraduate management courses at INSEAD in France. From 1976 to 1986 he worked at the Warta Insurance and Reinsurance Company, serving from 1982 to 1986 as director of its Reinsurance Office. From 1986 he lived in France, working between 1986 and 1991 for the broking firm Nasco Karaoglan France as director of the reinsurance treatie…

Born in 1977. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2000. A Polish lawyer, academic teacher, and politician, with a habilitated doctorate in legal sciences, specializing in constitutional law and human rights. Born on January 6, 1977, in Trzebiatów. After his studies at the University of Warsaw, in 2001 he obtained an LL.M. degree in comparative constitutional law from Central European University in Budapest. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. in legal sciences from the University of Warsaw based on a dissertation on multi-level citizens…

Born in 1912, died in 1998. A graduate of the University of Warsaw, where he read law and economics and defended his master's theses in 1935. A reporter and writer, he created the Polish genre of the historical reportage. In 1939 he fought in the Independent Operational Group Polesie and then spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in German officer camps, including Woldenberg II C. In 1945, as a front correspondent, he made his literary debut with the report Na Berlin. After the war he worked as a journalist in Gdynia and Warsaw, in 1948 was a correspondent in Italy (Spotkania włoskie), from…

Kazimierz Brandys (born 1916 in Łódź, died 2000 in Paris) was a novelist and essayist, among the most widely translated Polish writers of the twentieth century. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1934–1938; as a student of Jewish descent he opposed the bench ghetto and antisemitic violence, joining the Union of Independent Socialist Youth. He survived the German occupation in hiding in Warsaw. He made his debut with the novel The Wooden Horse (1946), and The Invincible City (1946) brought him renown. After the war he embraced communism: a member of the Polish Worke…

Born in 1898, died in 1966. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1924. His real name was Jan Wiktor Lesman–a Polish poet, satirist, and lawyer, one of the most popular authors of children's literature in the 20th century. He was born on August 15, 1898, in Zhmerynka, Podolia; he owed his literary pseudonym “Brzechwa” to his cousin, the poet Bolesław Leśmian. After settling in Warsaw in 1918, he began law studies at the University of Warsaw, and in 1920, as a volunteer, he participated in the Polish-Bolshevik War. From 1924, he practiced as a lawyer,…

Born in 1867, he died on 9 February 1944 in Warsaw. He completed his law studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1890 and subsequently obtained a doctorate in law at the University of Heidelberg. He belongs among the founders of the judiciary of reborn Poland: as director of the Department of Justice of the Provisional Council of State (from 1916) and then Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Poland in Jan Kucharzewski's cabinet (December 1917 – February 1918), he directed the creation of the Polish court system, formally taken over from the occupying authorities on 1 September 1917,…

Stanisław Car was born on 26 April 1882 in Warsaw and died on 18 June 1938 in Warsaw. He studied law at the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw until 1905, when, having taken part in the school strike and the boycott of the Russian university, he had to leave the city; he completed his studies in 1907 with a diploma of the Novorossiysk University in Odessa. After judicial training (1908–1911) he was admitted as a sworn advocate and practised in Warsaw; in 1924 he became the first editor-in-chief of 'Palestra', the journal of the Polish Bar. In independent Poland he headed the Civil Chancelle…

Born in 1974. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2000. Legal counsel and a leading activist in the professional self-governance of legal counsels. Born in Garwolin. After his studies, he completed his legal counsel apprenticeship at the District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw, which concluded in 2005, and since 2006, he has been running his own law firm specializing in civil, economic, and commercial law. For years, he has co-created the structures of legal counsel self-governance: from 2013–2020, he served as the dean of t…

Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski was born on 20 December 1923 in Warsaw and died on 29 April 2012 in Warsaw. He passed his secondary-school examination in clandestine classes in 1941 and that autumn entered the underground Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw, where by 1944 he had completed three years of study and co-founded the secret Students' Law Circle; the war made a Warsaw diploma impossible, and he took his master's degree in law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1945. A soldier of the national underground and of the Home Army, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising in the 'Gustaw'…

Born in 1978 in Bydgoszcz. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2002, studying in parallel with her television work. A sports journalist and television presenter, she is one of the best-known faces of major sporting event coverage on Polish television, and her legal training remains the foundation of her professional craft: precision of language and rigour in handling facts. She made her debut on public television in 1996 at TVP3 Bydgoszcz at the age of eighteen, and won wide recognition as a host of the youth programme „Rower Błażeja”…

Born in 1939 in Warsaw, he died on 11 January 2018. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1962. Habilitated doctor of laws, constitutional lawyer, one of the co-authors of the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of Poland and a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal. From 1963 to 1969 he was a researcher at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, and from 1969 at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he obtained his doctorate, then his habilitation in constitutional law, rising to the p…

Born in 1950 in Warsaw, he graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1972 and remained at the university until 1985 as a researcher at the Institute of International Law. He is one of the most prominent politicians of the Polish left after 1989: Prime Minister of Poland in 1996–1997, deputy prime minister and minister of justice in 1993–1995, minister of foreign affairs in 2001–2005 and Marshal of the Sejm in 2005. From 1971 until the party's dissolution in January 1990 he was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). In 1989 he won a…

Born on 29 June 1915 in Kyiv, he died on 18 June 1995 in Warsaw. He completed his law studies at the University of Warsaw around 1937 and then began his judicial apprenticeship. A civil lawyer, he was one of Poland's most eminent experts in the law of obligations and comparative law, and a co-author of the Civil Code of 1964. A student of Jan Wasilkowski, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Warsaw in 1948 and joined the legislative department of the Ministry of Justice, taking part in the unification of civil law and then in the codification work that culminated in the e…

Filip Czernicki (born 1974) is a Polish lawyer and manager, doctor of legal sciences, attorney-at-law (radca prawny), and from 2024 to 2026 CEO of Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK, now Port Polska), the company delivering Poland's new central airport and high-speed rail programme. He read law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (degree c. 1998) and completed the School of German Law run by the university with the University of Bonn; he also earned his doctorate in law at the University of Warsaw. In 1998–1999 he was vice-president of ELSA Poland, and in 1999–2…

Born in 1938. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1963. A Polish lawyer, historian, and politician, an activist of the anti-communist opposition, and a political prisoner during the Polish People's Republic (PRL) era. He was born on December 7, 1938, in Lublin; before studying law, he studied history at the Catholic University of Lublin (1955–1958). In 1965, he co-founded the secret independence organization “Ruch” (Movement) – alongside his brother Benedykt Czuma, Marian Gołębiewski, Emil Morgiewicz, and Stefan Niesiołowski, among o…

Jan Czyński (1801–1867) was a lawyer, publicist and political activist, one of the most colourful figures of the first generation of graduates of the law faculty in Warsaw. Born in Warsaw on 20 January 1801 into a family of Frankist Jewish descent and raised a Catholic, he studied first philosophy and then law at the Royal University of Warsaw, completing his law degree in 1822. He began legal practice at the Civil Tribunal in Lublin. After the outbreak of the November Uprising he was active first in Lublin, where he co-founded the city's first daily newspaper, „Kurier Lubelski”, and after mov…

Born in 1947 in Sokołów Podlaski into a family of intelligentsia – his father was a judge and his mother a teacher – he died on 9 January 2014 in Warsaw. He studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1965–1969, receiving his master's degree in law in 1970. One of the most respected judges of post-1989 Poland, he served as a judge of the Supreme Court from 1990, chaired the National Council of the Judiciary from 2006 to 2010 and held the office of First President of the Supreme Court from 2010 until his death. He began his judicial career in 1974 at the Dist…

Jarosław Dariusz Dąbrowski (born 11 October 1964 in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą) is a Polish banker and financial manager, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and a member of the management board of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland's state development bank. He completed his law degree at the University of Warsaw (c. 1988) and supplemented his education with executive MBA studies run jointly by the University of Brussels and the University of Warsaw, as well as the Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He has…

Born in 1900, died in 1941. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1928. Ignacy Dąbrowski, born December 15, 1900, in Warsaw, was a lawyer and resistance activist, one of many figures of the Polish legal profession who paid with their lives for participation in the independence conspiracy during World War II. After graduating, in 1929, he began his legal traineeship at the law firm of attorney Zygmunt Jaźwiński in Kalisz, with whom he became associated for years, both professionally and personally. After completing his traineeship, from 1933, he pract…

Ludwik Domański (born 24 July 1877 in Warsaw, died 2 October 1952 in Warsaw) was an advocate and eminent specialist in civil law, co-author of the Polish Code of Obligations of 1933. In 1895 he began legal studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw, obtaining the degree of Master of Laws in 1901. After a two-year judicial apprenticeship at the District Court in Warsaw he qualified as assistant to a sworn advocate, and in 1906 opened his own Warsaw law office specialising in civil law. During the First World War, as legal counsel to the Warsaw–Vienna Railway, he was evacuated to Moscow and th…

Born in Warsaw on 4 June 1933, died in 2016. An advocate and one of the greatest authorities of the Polish Bar, the son of Stanisław Dubois, a pre-war Polish Socialist Party leader murdered in Auschwitz, and the father of advocate Jacek Dubois. He graduated from the Tadeusz Reytan secondary school and completed a law degree at the University of Warsaw in 1955, writing his master’s thesis in administrative law under Professor Jerzy Starościak. After working in the Complaints Bureau of the Council of Ministers and directing the office of the Association of Polish Lawyers, he began his advocate’s…

Born in 1962. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1986. An attorney, social activist, as well as a writer and columnist, born in Warsaw. He comes from a prominent family with legal and public traditions – he is the grandson of Stanisław Dubois, a socialist activist and Member of the Sejm (Polish parliament) of the Second Polish Republic, and the son of Maciej Dubois, a respected Warsaw attorney. After his studies, he completed his legal traineeship, and in 1990 he passed the bar exam and began practicing law; since 1995 he has be…

Karol Dunin (1850–1917) was an advocate specialising in civil law and a historian of law, one of the pillars of the Warsaw legal community at the turn of the twentieth century. He was born on 28 July 1850 in Skroniów in the Kielce region into a noble family. He began his legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw Main School and received the degree of Master of Civil Law in 1877 at the Imperial University of Warsaw, the Main School\'s successor.. Offered the chair of Slavic legislation at Kharkov University, he declined rather than leave the country, and when the Russ…

Feliks Zdzisław Dutkiewicz was born on 17 May 1872 in Lublin, as the son of the physician Feliks Bonifacy and Julia née Hajkowicz. After finishing the Lublin gymnasium in 1892 he took up the study of law at the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw. Involved in the clandestine Union of Polish Youth (Zet), in 1894 he was exiled to the Ufa governorate for taking part in a patriotic demonstration; he then continued his studies at the University of Dorpat, from which, after being arrested for distributing the periodical Przedświt, he was deported to eastern Siberia. He ultimately obtained his law…

Walenty Dutkiewicz (1798–1882) was a scholar of civil law, the foremost authority on mortgage law in the Kingdom of Poland and dean of the Faculty of Law of the Warsaw Main School (Szkoła Główna Warszawska). Born on 5 February 1798 into a family of modest means in the Bochnia district, he studied law at the Royal University of Warsaw, obtaining the degree of Master of Laws in 1822. After completing his judicial apprenticeship in 1824 he began many years of practice in the judiciary of the Kingdom of Poland, combining it with teaching: he lectured on law in the legal classes attached to the War…

Born in 1943, died in 2025. He completed his master's degree in law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1980. A Polish police officer, an expert in counter-terrorism, a politician, and a member of the Sejm for four terms. He was born on December 15, 1943, in Warsaw. He began his service in 1966 in the Provincial Headquarters of the Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens' Militia) in Warsaw, and after 1990, he continued it in the Police, among others, as the commander of the anti-terrorist unit at Warsaw's Okęcie Airport and a chief specialist in the Police Headquarte…

She was born in 1976 in Warsaw. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw (approx. 2000). A human rights lawyer, she has been associated with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights since the beginning of her career, co-creating and managing national and international monitoring and educational programmes. Since 2003 she has coordinated the pioneering “Innocence” programme, devoted to miscarriages of justice and wrongfully convicted persons, and is the Polish member of the European Innocence Network. Her particular field is the rights of persons deprived of liberty: she was a member of th…

Born in Łódź in 1946, he graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1968 and also obtained a master's degree in sociology there in 1971. A retired full professor of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, he is one of Poland's most eminent scholars of civil procedure. From 1968 he was associated with the university's Chair of Civil Procedure, where he passed through every stage of an academic career: he took his doctorate in 1974, obtained his habilitation in 1981 on the basis of the monograph 'Foreign Law in Civil Court Proceedings', was appointed associate p…

Born in 1942, died in 2003. He completed law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1965. A criminal lawyer, habilitated doctor of legal sciences, professor at the University of Warsaw, and one of the co-creators of Polish victimology. He tied his entire academic career to his alma mater: he received his doctorate in 1971, habilitated in 1981, and became a professor in 1991. He specialized in criminal law, criminology, and victimology; his book "Pokrzywdzony w prawie karnym i wiktymologii" (The Victim in Criminal Law and Victimology) (1980) was among th…

Born in 1969. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, where in 2010 he also completed postgraduate studies in control, supervision, and auditing in public administration. A Polish lawyer, local government official, and democratic opposition activist of the late Polish People's Republic. Born on May 15, 1969, in Warsaw. In 1987, he became involved in the then illegal Independent Students' Association (Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów); in 1988, he became editor-in-chief of the underground magazine “Prawo Głosu,” co-edited the bulletin “FBI…

Born in 1948 in Lublin, she completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1970. A judge of the Supreme Court from 1990, in 2014–2016 she served as President of the Supreme Court directing the Chamber of Labour Law, Social Security and Public Affairs, becoming the first woman appointed to head a chamber of the Court; in the 1980s she was involved in the Solidarity movement within the judiciary. She completed her judicial training at the Voivodeship Court for the Capital City of Warsaw, was appointed assessor in 1972 and judge of the District C…

Born in 1905, died in 1966. He completed his law studies at the University of Warsaw in 1929, earning a Master of Law degree. Czesław Foryś, born in Bochnia, was an athlete, Olympian, and one of the most important activists in the history of Polish sports. As a middle-distance runner, he represented the Orzeł Biały club and Warszawianka, which he co-founded. He won the Polish championship in the 1500m race three times (1925–1927) and set national records eight times. In 1928, he competed in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in the 1500m race, being eliminated in the qualifiers. Professionally, he…

Born on 13 November 1939 in Warsaw, died on 5 August 2016. A criminal law scholar and comparatist and a long-serving professor at Saint Louis University School of Law in the United States. He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1962, earned his doctorate there in 1968 and obtained his habilitation in 1976 with a monograph on guilt and punishment in English criminal law. For nearly twenty years (1963–1983) he taught at the Warsaw faculty, rising to the rank of docent, while also studying in the United States, where he received an LL.M. from…

An alumna of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, where she also completed doctoral studies at the Department of Criminal Law. A Polish lawyer, advocate, and Doctor of Legal Sciences, she is the Dean of the District Bar Council in Warsaw from 2025 – the first woman to hold this position in the history of the Warsaw Chamber. After completing her advocate's apprenticeship in 2005, she has continuously practiced as an advocate, focusing her practice on criminal cases, with a particular emphasis on the right to defense and the protection of the rights of accused and w…

Born in 1944. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1966. A lawyer, professor of legal sciences, considered one of the most prominent contemporary Polish criminal law specialists, expert in criminal law, comparative criminal law, and international criminal law. He dedicated his entire academic career to the University of Warsaw – progressing through subsequent stages of academic advancement, earning his doctorate and habilitation, and in 1991, the title of professor of legal sciences; for many years he was a professor at the Faculty…

Born in 1946. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1968. Professor of legal sciences, one of the most distinguished Polish constitutionalists. He was born in Warsaw. He tied his academic career to his alma mater: in 1973, he obtained a doctorate in legal sciences, in 1978, a habilitation, and in 1987, he received the title of professor of legal sciences. At the University of Warsaw, he worked for many years as a full professor, served as director of the Institute of State and Law Sciences, and headed the Department of Constitutional…

Born in 1952. She completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1975. A lawyer, professor of legal sciences, specialist in labor law, the first woman in history to hold the office of First President of the Supreme Court. She was born in Warsaw. She linked her academic career with her alma mater: in 1981 she obtained a doctorate in legal sciences, in 2003 a habilitation, and in 2015 she received the title of professor of legal sciences; for years she lectured at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and headed the Dep…

Born in 1906, died in 2000. He completed law studies at the University of Warsaw in 1929. A publisher, publicist, and politician, one of the most important figures of the Polish emigration of the 20th century. He was born on July 27, 1906, in Minsk. He studied law at the University of Warsaw from 1924–1929, then studied history from 1930–1931. Even before the war, he combined clerical work with editorial activity: from 1930, he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Reforms, and from 1936, at the Ministry of Industry and Trade; he edited the young conservatives' magazine "Bunt…

Jakub Glass (born 12 January 1864 in Warsaw, died there on 21 or 22 May 1942) was a lawyer, an eminent authority on mortgage and notarial law, a judge of the Supreme Court and a lay leader of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland. In 1888 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw with the degree of candidate of laws, and he pursued supplementary studies at the University of Heidelberg, specialising in property and mortgage law. From 1892 to 1917 he served as mortgage registrar at the District Court in Warsaw, earning the reputation of one o…

Born in 1869, died in 1940. He completed legal studies at the University of Warsaw in 1893. A lawyer, judge, notary, and parliamentarian of the Second Polish Republic (II Rzeczpospolita), a distinguished social activist from the Radom region. He was born in Radom and spent almost his entire professional life in this city. After his studies and legal apprenticeship, he worked as a secretary of the civil division of the District Court in Radom, and then as a mortgage clerk, progressing through subsequent stages of local legal practice; later, he ran a notary office. From 1914 to 1917, he was vic…

Born in 1952. A graduate of law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw, Master of Laws. A Polish lawyer, attorney, and fencer, an Olympic champion. He was born in Lublin; he initially practiced fencing at AZS Lublin under the tutelage of coach Andrzej Gottner, with whom he moved to Warsaw, where he represented the clubs Marymont, Legia, and AZS, combining his sports career with law studies. In April 1972, he won the junior world championship title in foil in Madrid, and a few months later he was part of the Polish foil team at the Olympic Games in Munich. The team, composed…

Born in 1904, died in 1969. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1927, earning a Master of Law degree. A writer, playwright, and essayist, one of the most distinguished creators of 20th-century literature. Born in Małoszyce, he began his studies at the University of Warsaw in 1923, and after completing them, he went to Paris to continue his education. He also interned in the judiciary but abandoned a legal career for literary pursuits. He debuted in 1933 with a collection of short stories titled “Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania” (Diary of the Age of…

Born in 1947. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1969, earning a Master of Laws degree. A Polish lawyer and judge, from 2010–2014 chairman of the Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa (National Council of the Judiciary). He was born in the town of Wagi. He dedicated his entire professional career to the common courts, and subsequently to the Supreme Court. From 1969–1971, he underwent a judicial traineeship in the district of the Provincial Court in Białystok, after which he took up the position of assessor. From 1973–1980, he served as a judge in the District…

Born in 1941. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1963. A Polish lawyer, doctor of legal sciences, academic teacher, and politician, born in Drążewo. He was also scientifically associated with his alma mater – in 1980, he obtained his Ph.D. in legal sciences at the University of Warsaw, and from 1978 to 1992, he worked there as a lecturer. Professionally, for a quarter of a century (1963–1989), he was associated with Polish State Railways (Polskie Koleje Państwowe), then from 1990 to 1992, he headed the legal department of the Ministry of Tran…

She was born in 1982. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw in 2006, she also completed postgraduate studies in medical law, bioethics and the sociology of medicine. Admitted to the Warsaw Bar as an advocate in 2010, she has been with the Warsaw office of Clifford Chance since 2006, where she is responsible for the pro bono practice; she specialises in litigation as well as civil and criminal law. In 2016 she became the Warsaw Bar Association's proxy for cooperation with non-governmental organisations. A board member of the Professor Zbigniew Hołda Association, she ran the nationwide e…

Born in 1952. She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1975. A Polish lawyer, politician, and professor of legal sciences, born in Warsaw. She pursued her academic career at her alma mater as a specialist in public economic law and banking law – in 1981, she obtained her Ph.D. in legal sciences, in 1993, she habilitated based on a dissertation on the central bank in the transition from a planned to a market economy, and in 2013, she received the title of professor. In the 1980s, she was involved in opposition activities within "Solidar…

Born in 1879, died in 1970. A graduate of the law faculty of the University of Warsaw, then the Imperial University of Warsaw, in 1904; he began with medicine before transferring to law. An advocate, journalist and publicist, he was one of the foremost leaders of the Zionist movement in Poland and later a founding figure of the State of Israel. Already as a student he led the Jewish student organisation Kadima and wrote for the Hebrew and Yiddish press. After graduating he practised as a lawyer; between 1905 and 1910 he was imprisoned five times for political activity, and in 1911, following t…

Born in 1803, died in 1874. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Royal University of Warsaw in 1822, earning a Master of Law degree. Konstanty Franciszek Gruszecki of the Lubicz coat of arms was a lawyer, judge, and high-ranking official of the judiciary of the Kingdom of Poland. He came from a family with legal traditions – his father was Kasper Gruszecki, an appellate judge of the Kingdom of Poland. He began his studies in 1819, thus belonging to the first cohorts of students of the Royal University of Warsaw, established in 1816, the historical predecesso…

Born in 1960. He graduated with distinction in law from the University of Warsaw in 1984. A habilitated doctor of legal sciences, advocate and tax adviser, he is one of Poland's best-known commentators on taxation and the economy. He is a professor at Lazarski University in Warsaw, where in the Department of Legal Theory and Material Sources of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration he works on political, legal and economic thought and on the economic analysis of law. In practice he concentrates on financial and tax law, corporate law and energy law, advising both large companies, includ…

Born in 1883, died in 1953. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw, then the Imperial University of Warsaw, completing his degree as an external candidate in 1904. An advocate, publicist and one of the leading political leaders of Polish Jewry between the wars. As a student he joined both the Zionist and the student socialist movements; in February 1903 he was arrested after a demonstration against an antisemitic comedy staged at the Rozmaitości Theatre and held for three weeks in the Pawiak prison. He practised law from 1906 in Siedlce, where he also served in the municipal government…

Jan Paweł Hebdzyński was born on 26 June 1869 in Szydłowiec (some studies give 1870) and died on 31 December 1929 in Warsaw. He studied in 1890–1893 at the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw; no archival confirmation that he took a Warsaw diploma has been found, although the press wrote in 1919 that he had 'completed the law faculty at the Warsaw university'. In 1893–1898 he trained at the District Court and the Mortgage Office in Radom and Warsaw, then worked in the chambers of the advocate Z. Wasiutyński, and from 1907 ran his own practice, becoming one of Warsaw's leading c…

Born in 1974. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. A Polish journalist, reporter, and sports commentator, a lawyer by education. He was born in Warsaw; he completed VIII King Władysław IV Lyceum in Warsaw, and then law studies at the University of Warsaw, but after graduation, he did not pursue a professional career in legal practice, but in media. From 1998 to 2017, he worked at Telewizja Polska (Polish Television) as a reporter, presenter, commentator, and editor of sports news. He specialized primarily in volleyball and ski jumping, covering the m…

Born in 1949 in Warsaw. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. An advocate and retired judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, chairman of the National Electoral Commission from 2014 to 2019, and a specialist in human rights, criminal procedure and electoral law. In 1971-1972 he completed a prosecutorial traineeship at the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, where he worked from 1977 to 1980; from 1984 he practised as an advocate. He was among the first Polish counsel to litigate successfully before the European Court of Human Rights i…

Józef Higersberger was born on 15 July 1856 in Warsaw, into a family of official and financial traditions; his father Józef (1817–1896) was a director and vice-president of the Bank of Poland. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw (the exact year of his diploma has not been established). His professional career was bound up with the Warsaw bar: he ran a legal practice, served as legal counsel to the Land Credit Society and belonged to the leading figures of the capital's legal community. In the summer of 1915, after the German occupation of…

Romuald Hube (1803–1890) was a legal historian, professor and codifier, one of the most eminent and most disputed figures of nineteenth-century Polish jurisprudence. Born in Warsaw on 7 February 1803, he completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the Royal University of Warsaw, passing his master's examination with distinction on 16 July 1821, and continued his education in Berlin, attending lectures by Hegel and Savigny. From 1825 he taught at his home faculty, and on 12 May 1829 he publicly defended his doctoral dissertation – the second doctoral defence in the faculty's history – after…

Born in 1917, died in 2008. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1938, earning a Master of Laws degree. Polish-American economist, Nobel laureate in Economics (2007), creator of the theory of economic mechanism design. He was born in Moscow, to a family of Polish Jews, who returned to Warsaw shortly after his birth; there he attended schools and completed his legal studies. After graduating, he studied at the London School of Economics and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and after the outbreak of World War II, in 1940, he em…

Born in 1947. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1969. Hubert Ireneusz Izdebski, born in Warsaw, is a distinguished Polish lawyer, legal counsel, professor of legal sciences, and a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He built a long academic career at his alma mater, earning successive academic degrees there: a doctorate in 1972, a habilitation in 1978, and the title of professor of legal sciences in 1988; he headed the Institute of State and Law Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He specializes in adminis…

Born in 1985 in Warsaw. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2009, studying in the evening programme and combining her degree with acting work. In 2010 she began her legal-adviser traineeship at the Warsaw Regional Bar Association of Legal Advisers; she first sat the final examination in 2013, failing one of its five parts (commercial law), and in April 2014 she passed the examination, obtaining the title of legal adviser (radca prawny) and entry on the Warsaw chamber's roll. A legal adviser and partner in the Clever One law firm, she s…

Aleksander Romuald Jackowski (born 5 February 1869 in Warsaw, died 9 March 1949 in Katowice) was an advocate, professor of commercial law and senator of the Second Polish Republic. He studied law at the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1889–1893, obtaining the degree of candidate of laws.. He practised as an advocate in Warsaw while pursuing an academic career: from 1906 he taught at the Warsaw School of Economics (WSH), where he headed the Chair of Commercial Law, serving as deputy rector in 1929–1931 and as rector of the school in 1931–1932. After Poland regained indepe…

Born in 1959, he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1982 and qualified as a legal counsel (radca prawny). He is one of the most significant lawyers of the Polish financial sector of recent decades: a long-serving member of the management board of the National Bank of Poland, deputy mayor of Warsaw in 2006–2011 and chairman of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) in 2011–2016. He began his career in October 1982 at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, where he worked until January 1991. From 1991 to 2006 he was associated with th…

Born in 1880, died in 1940. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1904. Czesław Marian Jankowski, born in Warsaw, was a lawyer and one of the co-founders of scouting and harcerstwo (Polish scouting) in the lands of the Congress Kingdom of Poland. He began his professional practice in the law office of Stanisław Patek, a well-known defense lawyer in political trials, and in 1915, he opened his own law office in Warsaw. In 1920, he expanded his legal competencies by undertaking a course for military auditors in the Polish Army. For about twenty years, he w…

Born in 1980. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2003. A Polish lawyer, legal counsel, and economist, Doctor Habilitated of Legal Sciences, professor at the University of Warsaw, specializing in civil law, commercial law, and financial market law. He was born in Warsaw. A year after graduating in law, in 2004, he obtained a master's degree from the Warsaw School of Economics, combining legal and economic perspectives from the beginning of his career. In 2005, he defended his doctorate in legal sciences at the University of Warsa…

He was born in 1934 and died in 2018. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw, which he completed in 1956. An advocate and defence counsel in political trials of the communist period, President of the Polish Bar Council from 1995 to 2001 and for many years editor-in-chief of the monthly “Palestra”, he is considered one of the most important figures of the Polish bar after 1989. Following his studies he completed advocate training in Olsztyn, passed the bar examination in 1960 and was entered on the roll of advocates, then began practice in Warsaw. Four years later he was appointed deputy…

He was born in 1939. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1964. An advocate, defence counsel in political trials of the communist period, judge of the Constitutional Tribunal from 1997 to 2006, and a specialist in press and copyright law. After his studies he completed prosecutorial training in 1966. From 1971 to 1973 he was legal counsel to the ZAiKS authors' society, and from 1973 to 1981 he worked as a journalist at Polish Radio. From 1982 he practised as an advocate and appeared as defence counsel in numerous political trials, representi…

Born in 1949. He completed law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. A Polish politician and lawyer, Doctor of Law, founder and long-time chairman of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) party, Prime Minister from 2006–2007. He was born on June 18, 1949, in Warsaw. In 1976, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the theory of state and law at the University of Warsaw, prepared under the supervision of Prof. Stanisław Ehrlich; he then worked as an academic teacher, among others, at the Białystok branch of the University of Warsaw. During…

Born in 1949, died in 2010. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. A lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of Poland from 2005 to 2010. He was born in Warsaw. After graduation, he joined the University of Gdańsk, where in 1980 he earned his doctorate, and in 1990, his habilitation in legal sciences; he specialized in labor law, authored numerous scientific publications, and also lectured at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. In the second half of the 1970s, he became involved in democratic opposition acti…

Born in 1957. He graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1980. An advocate and politician, he took part in the work on the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of Poland, served as minister of internal affairs and administration and sat in the Sejm for four terms. After his degree he completed judicial (1981–1983) and bar (1984–1987) traineeships and a placement in Zurich (1985), and has practised as an advocate since 1987. In 1978 he joined the Polish United Workers' Party and remained a member until the party was dissolved in 1990; earlier he had been active in the Socialist Union of…

He was born in 1936. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw in 1963. A legal counsel and long-standing leader of the self-government of legal counsels, he was President of the National Council of Legal Counsels from 1995 to 2004 and Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General from 2004 to 2005. After graduating he completed training at the State Economic Arbitration body and has practised as a legal counsel since 1965. He specialises in administrative, commercial, civil and labour law, and in particular in competition law and questions of unfair competition. Since 1990 he has been a part…

Born in 1930, died in 2021. She completed her first-cycle law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1953. Barbara Zofia Kielar was an outstanding Polish translatologist, a pioneer and a doyen of legal translation theory, and a full professor at the University of Warsaw. She was born in Łódź. Her interdisciplinary education included English philology–from 1948 to 1952, she studied at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Warsaw, earning a master's degree in English philology–and concurrently (1950–1953) she pursued first-cycle law studies at the Faculty of Law of…

Józef Kirszrot-Prawnicki (1842–1906) was a lawyer, economist, publicist and social activist, a reformer of Jewish charitable and credit institutions. Born in Warsaw on 1 December 1842 into a family of assimilated Jews, he obtained the degree of Master of Law and Administration at the Warsaw Main School (Szkoła Główna Warszawska) in 1866 and continued his studies in Leipzig and Wrocław. In 1873 he became a sworn advocate at the Court of Appeal in Warsaw and also worked as legal counsel to financial and commercial institutions. He gained considerable renown as a publicist: the pen name „Prawnick…

Born in 1940, died in 2010. He completed law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1963. Polish lawyer, Doctor of Law, diplomat, and academic lecturer, Ombudsman (Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich) from 2006 to 2010. He was born on April 18, 1940, in Częstochowa. He was associated with his alma mater for a significant part of his professional life: in 1980, he obtained his doctorate in law there, and worked as a research and teaching staff member at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw from 1966–1990 and 1997–2006. He specialized…

Born in 1914, died in 1943. A graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. Polish lawyer, underground activist during World War II, partisan of the Gwardia Ludowa (People's Guard), using the pseudonym "Wacław." She was born on December 23, 1914, in Warsaw and her entire life was connected with this city: she completed the Klementyna Hoffmanowa Gymnasium here, and then law studies at the University of Warsaw, after which she began her legal traineeship at the Court of Appeal in Warsaw. The outbreak of the war interrupted her promising legal career. During the German occupation, s…

Roman Kołtoń was born on 12 January 1970 in Złotoryja. He began his law studies at the University of Wrocław and, after moving to Warsaw, completed them at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in the first half of the 1990s (c. 1994). The analytical rigour, precision of language and source-based method instilled by his legal education became lasting assets in his editorial and broadcasting work, which made him one of Poland's most recognisable football journalists. His career began in 1988, when he started contributing to the weekly Piłka Nożna; in 1990–1991 he wor…

Henryk Konic (1860–1934) was one of the most eminent civil-law advocates of the Polish bar and a co-founder of its restored self-government. Born in Warsaw on 15 January 1860, he read law at the Imperial University of Warsaw, taking his degree in 1881, and from 1886 practised as a sworn advocate in Warsaw. The passion of his life was the 'Gazeta Sądowa Warszawska' (Warsaw Court Gazette), which he edited from 1896 until his death, making it the leading forum of legal thought first in the Kingdom of Poland and then in the Second Republic. During the revolution of 1905 he was among the most activ…

Wojciech Kostrzewa (born 18 October 1960) is a Polish manager and entrepreneur, one of the most prominent figures in Polish banking and media after 1989. In 1979–1981 he studied law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw; he did not complete a law degree in Warsaw, continuing his education in Germany, where in 1987 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Kiel. While still a law student in Warsaw, in 1981 he was one of the five founders of the European Law Students' Association (ELSA), today the largest law students' organisation in the worl…

Aleksander Kraushar (1843–1931) was one of the most colourful figures of the Warsaw bar and of Polish historiography at the turn of the twentieth century. Born in Warsaw on 17 January 1843 into an assimilated Jewish family, he studied law at the Warsaw Main School (Szkoła Główna Warszawska), the institution whose traditions were later carried on by the University of Warsaw, taking his degree in 1867. As a student he took part in the January Uprising of 1863–1864, co-editing the clandestine periodicals 'Prawda' and 'Niepodległość' and helping to print and distribute insurgent publications; he l…

Marcin Kruszewski (b. 2 August 1994) is a Polish lawyer and online creator, author of the legal-education project „Prawo Marcina” („Marcin's Law”), Poland's largest social-media channel popularising legal knowledge. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (degree ca. 2020); he practises neither as an advocate nor as an attorney-at-law, having chosen the doctoral route instead and preparing a dissertation on commercial company law. He recorded his first videos, devoted to consumer rights and the rules of dealing with the police, in 2022…

Edmund Krzymuski (1851–1928) was the foremost Polish representative of the classical school of criminal law, professor and rector of the Jagiellonian University, formed in the Warsaw legal milieu. He was born on 30 October 1851 in Kruszyn near Włocławek (some sources, including the PWN encyclopaedia, give 1852). After finishing gymnasium in Warsaw he studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1870–1874 and supplemented his education in Heidelberg (1874/1875), attending Karl Röder\'s lectures; in 1875 he received the degree of Candidate of Laws at the Imperial University of Warsaw for…

Mariusz Wojciech Książek (born 1972 in Warsaw) is a Polish entrepreneur and manager, founder and CEO of the listed real estate developer Marvipol Development S.A. He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, receiving his degree in 2003. He began his professional career in 1993 by setting up the consultancy MK Consulting, which he still runs. In 1996 he founded Marvipol, a company initially providing services to other developers and, from 1998, running its own residential projects in Warsaw. In 2003 he expanded the group into the import and sale o…

Leszek Kubicki was born on 19 May 1930 in Pruszków. He is a criminal law scholar, professor of legal sciences, retired judge of the Supreme Court of Poland, and Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General in 1996–1997. He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1952, having studied under Professor Jerzy Sawicki, and worked at the Faculty's Chair of Substantive Criminal Law from 1951 to 1968. He received his doctorate in law in 1960 and his habilitation in 1975 at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, with which he was…

Jan Kucharzewski was born in 1876 in Wysokie Mazowieckie. He received his law degree in 1898 from the Imperial University of Warsaw and continued his education in Berlin, studying political economy and sociology. A lawyer, historian and statesman, he is remembered as the first prime minister of the government of the Kingdom of Poland appointed by the Regency Council and as the author of a monumental synthesis of Russian history. Before the First World War he combined legal practice in Warsaw with scholarship and political writing, publishing a study of Maurycy Mochnacki (1910) and „Epoka paski…

Born in 1938. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1959. Born in Lwów, a singer, one of the most popular performers of Polish popular music in the 1960s and 1970s. She undertook legal studies at the urging of her stepfather, attorney Mieczysław Góralewicz, and completed them by defending her master's thesis, but she never professionally engaged in legal practice – even during her university studies, music and stage performances increasingly absorbed her. She debuted in the late 1950s, and national popularity was brought to her by hits that permanently entered th…

Maciej Kurzajewski (born 29 January 1973 in Kalisz) is a sports journalist and television presenter, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (degree in 1997). The son of sports journalist Czesław Kurzajewski, he earned his journalistic spurs remarkably early: while still in the first year of his law studies he won a competition for a sports journalist position at Polish public television TVP, beginning in 1993 an association with the broadcaster that lasted more than three decades. For four years he hosted his own programme Sportowy Express, and then bec…

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski was born on 14 May 1971 in Zgierz. He is a lawyer, public official and politician, Minister of Justice of Poland in 2009–2011, President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) in 2013–2019, and a member of the Polish Senate. Active in his youth in the Fighting Youth Federation and the Independent Students' Association, he began his law studies at the University of Łódź, interrupted them due to serious illness, and completed them in 2001 at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, earning a master's degree in law. From 1997 to 2001 he was personal secr…

Born in 1940. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1962. Ewa Łętowska was born on March 22, 1940, in Warsaw. Professor of legal sciences, an outstanding specialist in civil law, constitutional law, and human rights. After graduation, she dedicated herself to scientific work at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences; in 1968, she earned her Ph.D. in legal sciences, in 1975, she habilitated in the field of civil law, and subsequently received the title of professor. During the systemic transformation, she played a key…

Jan Jakub Litauer (1873–1949) was one of the most eminent Polish specialists in civil procedure of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Warsaw on 18 February 1873, he completed secondary school at sixteen and in 1892, at only nineteen years of age, obtained his diploma from the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw on the basis of a dissertation on state citizenship in ancient Rome. After judicial training and work at the General Prosecutorial Office of the Kingdom of Poland, from 1896 he ran a sworn advocate's practice in Warsaw specialising in civil cases and publis…

Born in 1955. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1981. Polish lawyer, politician, publicist, and academic lecturer, one of the most distinctive representatives of the national-Catholic movement in Polish politics after 1989. He was born on June 10, 1955, in Gdańsk; he began law studies at the University of Gdańsk, from where he transferred to the University of Warsaw. His parliamentary career began during the systemic transformation as a Member of Parliament (poseł) in the contractual Sejm (Parliament) (10th term), and then he serve…

Wojciech Lutek is a Polish power sector manager and a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw (1990). He also completed postgraduate studies in real estate valuation at the Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography of the Warsaw University of Technology, postgraduate studies in Economics and Finance at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, and an MBA programme of the University of Illinois delivered at the Lublin University of Technology. He gained professional experience in both public institutions and enterprises, serving as a head of division at the National Ban…

Born on 13 January 1880 in Radom, he died on 1 October 1939 in Warsaw, just after the capital's capitulation. He studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1899–1903, continuing his studies until 1905 in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris. A civil lawyer, he was one of the most eminent experts in family and matrimonial law of interwar Poland and a co-creator of the Warsaw school of civil law. After years of practice at the Warsaw Bar (sworn advocate 1908–1918) he joined the reborn University of Warsaw: from 1917 he lectured in civil law and from 1919, as professor, headed the Chair of Civil La…

Born in 1951. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1973. A Polish lawyer, state official, and academic teacher, doctor of legal sciences, born in Warsaw. She associated her academic and didactic career with her alma mater – in 1978, she defended her doctoral dissertation on statistical information in environmental management at the University of Warsaw, and subsequently worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Logic and Legal Argumentation. Her research specializes in legal logic, human rights, environmental law, and European Unio…

Born on 2 November 1880 in Vilnius, he died on 28 December 1942 in Bucharest. He completed his law studies in 1902 at what was then the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw, supplementing them in Kraków, Lwów and Paris. A criminal and constitutional lawyer and advocate, he was arrested in 1901 and 1906 for pro-independence activity. In 1916 he sat on the Warsaw City Council. During the First World War he helped rebuild the Polish judiciary as deputy director of the Department of Justice of the Provisional Council of State. From 1917 he taught criminal law at the University of Warsaw, where he…

Julian Edmund Makowski (born 6 February 1875 in Warsaw, died in Warsaw in 1959) was an international lawyer, codifier of Polish treaty practice, professor and rector of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). After his matura at Warsaw\'s Third Philological Gymnasium (1895) he studied, at his father\'s insistence, at the Institut Supérieur de Commerce in Antwerp, obtaining a licentiate in commercial sciences in 1898, and in the academic year 1898/1899 at the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris; he also studied at the Jagiellonian University. The pre-war biographical lexicon by S. Łoza (1938)…

Born in 1964 in Warsaw. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1992. Habilitated doctor of laws, a specialist in civil procedure, First President of the Supreme Court from 2020 to 2026. After completing her judicial traineeship and passing the judicial examination she was appointed in 1996 a judge of the District Court for Warsaw-Praga; from 2000 to 2004 she sat in the Regional Court in Warsaw and from 2004 to 2018 in the Court of Appeal in Warsaw. She obtained her doctorate in law at the University of Warsaw and in 2010 her habilitation on th…

Leopold Méyet (1850–1912) was a Warsaw advocate, man of letters, editor and collector of Romantic-era memorabilia, and one of the most colourful figures of the Warsaw bar at the turn of the twentieth century. Born in Warsaw in 1850 into an assimilated Jewish family of French descent, he began his legal education at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw Main School (Szkoła Główna) and, after its dissolution, took his diploma in 1870 at the Imperial University of Warsaw, the Russian institution created in its place. He ran a successful law practice in Warsaw and in 1873 helped to l…

Born in 1947, died in 2010. He studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw from 1965 to 1970, obtaining his law degree in 1970. A Polish advocate, long-serving editor-in-chief of „Palestra”, the journal of the Polish Bar, a writer and a guardian of the memory of the Katyn massacre. Born on 11 September 1947 in Łódź and raised in Częstochowa. After prosecutorial training and passing the prosecutor’s examination in 1972, he served in prosecutor’s offices in Grójec, Pruszków, Nowy Targ and Warsaw; in 1980 he took part in the investigation of the crash of the Il-62…

Krzysztof Miklas (born 22 February 1948 in Kamion on the Vistula) is a sports journalist and commentator, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (degree in 1972) and of postgraduate journalism studies at the same university (1975). His legal education gave him solid analytical training, but he devoted his professional life to sports media. He began his career in the sports section of the daily Trybuna Mazowiecka (1974–1978), then spent a decade as a commentator in the sports department of Polish Radio (1978–1988) and worked in the sports newsroom of Pol…

Born in 1947. She graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1970. A lawyer, journalist and commentator, she is one of the most recognisable observers of Polish public life after 1989 and was earlier an activist of the democratic opposition. In March 1968 she took part in student rallies, and from 1969 to 1980 worked as an editor at the state legal publishing house Wydawnictwo Prawnicze. From 1976 she cooperated with the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) as a printer, distributor and courier of printing materials, and from 1979 was a member of the Social Self-Defence Committee KOR, servi…

Born in 1911, died in 2004. He completed his law studies in 1934 at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, and was associated with the University of Warsaw in the academic year 1931/1932 when he transferred there for his third year of law. Czesław Miłosz, a poet, prose writer, essayist, translator, and diplomat, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, is one of the most prominent creators of Polish and world literature of the 20th century. After a one-year period in Warsaw, he returned to his home university in Vilnius, where he obtained a master's degree in law in July 1934. Du…

Born on 16 April 1875 in Warsaw, he died on 1 September 1956 in Łódź. In 1896 he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Imperial University of Warsaw with the degree of candidate of laws and with silver and gold medals for prize essays; in 1913 he obtained a doctorate at the Jagiellonian University. An advocate, judge and eminent theorist of criminal law, he pioneered the protection of children in criminal justice (his influential book Dziecko i przestępstwo, 1916). A sworn advocate in Łódź from 1901, he defended clients in political trials before tsarist courts; from 1911 he practised in Warsa…

Born in 1948. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1970, earning a master's degree in law. A print, radio, and television journalist, publicist, and writer, one of the most esteemed Polish Vatican experts. He was born in Warsaw. Although he did not pursue a professional career in legal practice, the education gained at the University of Warsaw shaped his analytical and journalistic craft. Since 1975, he has been a member of the Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich (Association of Polish Journalists); in the 1980s, he participated in the independent…

Franciszek Nowodworski (1859–1924) entered history as the first First President of the Supreme Court of reborn Poland. Born on 7 April 1859 in Kalwaria in the Suwałki region, he attended secondary school in Płock and then studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw, taking his degree in 1880 and the academic rank of candidate of law in 1884. He completed a judicial apprenticeship, but with judicial office in the Kingdom of Poland effectively closed to Poles he chose the bar: from 1885 he practised as a sworn advocate in Warsaw. He won renown as an outstanding criminal defence counsel, abo…

Jan Edward Nowodworski (born 11 October 1876 in Plock according to the birth record, though some studies give 11 June; died 30 July 1954 in Warsaw) was an advocate, member of the Sejm and one of the leaders of the advocates\' self-government of the Second Polish Republic, the younger brother of Franciszek Nowodworski, First President of the Supreme Court. In 1898 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw (then the Imperial University), obtaining the degree of candidate of legal sciences. Admitted to the bar in 1903, he was active in the Circle of Polish Lawyers, over whi…

Born in 1930, died in 2019. He obtained a Master of Law degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw in 1953. Polish lawyer, publicist, and politician, Prime Minister (Prezes Rady Ministrów) from 1991 to 1992. He was born on August 20, 1930, in Warsaw. During the German occupation, he was a soldier of the Szare Szeregi (Gray Ranks) and participated in the Warsaw Uprising. After his studies and legal traineeship, he maintained an active practice, gaining the status of one of the most unwavering defenders in political trials during the Polish People's Republic (PRL) period–he repre…

Kazimierz Orłoś (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a novelist, screenwriter, author of radio dramas and columnist; a nephew of the writers Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz and Józef Mackiewicz. After finishing the Tadeusz Reytan secondary school in Warsaw (1953) he studied law at the University of Warsaw, taking his master's degree in 1960. For years he worked in legal positions, including the legal office of the Turów industrial complex and as legal counsel at the construction of the Solina hydroelectric power plant. He made his literary debut in the monthly Twórczość (1958); the collections Między brzegami (1…

Born in 1945 in Bialystok, he died on 29 April 2017 in Warsaw. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw in about 1968, he also studied sociology and took a doctorate in legal and social sciences. A constitutional lawyer, academic teacher, essayist and civic activist, he specialised in constitutional law, the history of political and legal doctrines and human rights, and was one of the co-authors of the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of Poland. From 1990 to 1997 he served as adviser and expert to the constitutional committees of the Polish parliament, including the Constitutional Commit…

Born in 1906, died in 1982. He studied law at the University of Warsaw. A journalist and publisher of aviation press, a balloon pilot, and an organizer and popularizer of Polish sports and commercial aviation. He was born on February 15, 1906, in Warsaw. He was passionate about aviation since his school years, actively involved in the Polski Lotniczy Związek Młodzieży (Polish Aviation Youth Association). Parallel to his law studies at the University of Warsaw, he founded the magazine "Młody Lotnik" (Young Aviator), the first issue of which appeared on October 5, 1924; he was its editor-in-chie…

Born in 1893, died in 1957. He completed law studies at the University of Warsaw in 1921. A lawyer, high-ranking state official, and politician of the Second Polish Republic associated with the Piłsudski camp. He was born on December 13, 1893, in Będzin. In his youth, he was active in the Związek Młodzieży Postępowo-Niepodległościowej (Association of Progressive-Independence Youth), and in November 1918, he participated in disarming Germans in Warsaw. He first studied law at the university in Lwów (1912–1915), and then at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Warsaw, w…

Born in 1947, died in 2022. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1970. A lawyer, judge, and professor of legal sciences, one of the most important authorities in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was born in Warka. He pursued his entire professional career in the judiciary – from legal apprenticeship and adjudicating in lower instance courts to the highest judicial positions; at the age of 36, he was already delegated to adjudicate in the Supreme Court, and in 1990 he was…

Alfons Parczewski (1849–1933) was an advocate, historian and politician, and the first dean of the Faculty of Law of the reborn University of Warsaw. Born on 15 November 1849 in Wodzierady into a landed-gentry family, he entered the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw Main School in 1865 and completed his studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw, created in its place, receiving the degree of Master of Law and Administration on the basis of a dissertation submitted in 1870. After training at the Civil Tribunal in Warsaw he practised in Kalisz, from 1872 as patron and from 1876 a…

Ryszard Parulski (born 9 March 1938, died 10 January 2017) was an advocate, Olympian and one of the most versatile fencers in the history of Polish sport, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (degree in 1965). He won world championship medals in all three weapons – foil, epee and sabre – a feat that made him a phenomenon in the history of the discipline. In 1959 he became junior world champion in sabre, in 1961 in Turin he won the individual world title in foil, and in 1963 he added another world championship gold. That same year he won the Przegląd S…

Born in 1932, died in 2005. He completed law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1968, earning a master's degree in law. A sabre fencer considered one of the most outstanding fencers in the history of the discipline, a six-time Olympian (1952–1972) and a five-time Olympic medalist. He was born on October 25, 1932, in Warsaw; he represented the capital's clubs Ogniwo, Gwardia, and Legia. He achieved his greatest success at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, winning gold in the individual sabre tournament – a few months after defending his master's thesis at the Universit…

Maciej Petruczenko (born 27 October 1946 in Międzyrzec Podlaski, died 27 January 2025 in Warsaw) was one of Poland's most respected sports journalists, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (degree in 1969) and of postgraduate journalism studies at the same university (1971). Although he never practised law, his legal education shaped his craft: precision of language, the ability to analyse sporting rules and regulations, and the courage to comment on the governance of Polish and world sport. From 1970 he was associated with Przegląd Sportowy, Poland's…

Born in 1945, died on 14 May 2026. He graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1970. An advocate specialising in criminal defence and a film screenwriter, he was one of the best-known figures of the Polish bar at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After judicial and bar traineeships he entered practice in 1973. Under martial law he acted as defence counsel in the political trials of activists of the Solidarity trade union and of Radio Solidarity, served as an expert for the Mazowsze Region of Solidarity, and co-founded the Patronat prisoners' welfare association. He…

His year of birth is not stated in publicly available sources. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (approx. 2001), he also holds the Cambridge University Certificate in English and European Law. An advocate since 2005, he is a partner and co-founder of the law firm Pietrzak Sidor & Wspólnicy, established in 2007, specialising in criminal law, including white-collar crime, as well as constitutional law, international criminal law and human rights protection. Between 2010 and 2016 he chaired the Human Rights Commission of the Polish Bar Council, an…

Born in 1873, died in 1943. He completed legal studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw (then the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw) in 1896. A military lawyer and attorney, major general of the Imperial Russian Army and brigadier general of the Polish Army. Born in Łódź; he was educated at the gymnasium in Kalisz (1883–1891) and then at the cavalry school in Tver, which he graduated from in 1893. He combined military service with legal practice in the Russian military judiciary: from 1902 to 1908, he served in the naval judiciary corps, and from 1908 to 1917, he was head…

Born in 1955. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. A Polish lawyer and judge, from 2001–2002 Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General. She was born in Kosowic in the Świętokrzyskie region; she is the daughter of Józef Piwnik, nom de guerre "Topola," a soldier of the Home Army, and the niece of Major Jan Piwnik "Ponury," a legendary Home Army partisan commander. Her master's thesis focused on copyrights to cinematic works. After completing her judicial traineeship, she served as an assessor in the district of the Provincial Court in Siedlce f…

Born in 1878, died in 1940. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw, then operating as a Russian university, in 1903. Bolesław Norbert Pohorecki, born in Warsaw, was a prominent civil lawyer, judge, and president of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Second Polish Republic. From 1906 to 1917, he practiced law, and in 1917 he took up the position of judge of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw. He authored the draft decree of the Head of State from 1918 on the Provisional Statute of the Polish State Bar, which came into force in 1919 and established the f…

Cezary Ponikowski (1853–1944) was an advocate, co-creator of the self-government of the Polish bar in the Second Republic and the first president of the Supreme Bar Council (Naczelna Rada Adwokacka). He was born in Warsaw on 27 August 1853 (some Bar Council publications give 1854). In 1870 he entered the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw, graduating in 1875. He worked as assistant to a sworn advocate and from 1877 as a sworn advocate himself, specialising in civil law; for years he handled the extensive property affairs of the Czartoryski family, in whose house at Krakowskie…

Stanisław Posner (1868–1930) was one of the most distinguished lawyers and parliamentarians to emerge from Warsaw's legal community at the turn of the twentieth century. Born in 1868 in Kuchary near Płońsk, he graduated in law from the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1893, receiving a gold medal for a prize essay on the German historical school of law, and continued his studies at the law faculty in Berlin. A civil lawyer and sociologist of law, he was a prolific writer, contributing to Gazeta Sądowa Warszawska, Prawda and Ogniwo, and a tireless educational activist who lectured at the clande…

Born in 1920, died in 2019. She began her law studies in 1945 at the extramural Faculty of Law of Nicolaus Copernicus University, and completed them in 1951 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw, earning a master's degree. Danuta Antonina Przystasz, born in Niewistka and raised in Sanok, was a lawyer, participant in the independence underground, and a Warsaw insurgent; all her siblings also studied law at the University of Warsaw. During the occupation, she was active in the “Racławice” organization, and, threatened with arrest, she moved to Warsaw in 1942, where she co-organized a…

Born in 1895, died in 1940. In 1922, he began studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. Emanuel Franciszek Quirini was born on January 18, 1895, in Milówka, Żywiec region, to a family of Italian descent; he was the younger brother of Eugeniusz Quirini, a certified lieutenant colonel of the Polish Army. He studied in Lwów, was active in the scout movement and rifle teams, and from August 1914, he fought in the ranks of the 1st, and then the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions. In 1917, he was transferred to the Field Gendarmerie of the Legions, with which he remained co…

Born in 1900, died in 1941. He completed law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1926. A Polish lawyer, publicist, writer, and activist of the national movement. He was born on March 1, 1900, in Warsaw, into a family with strong literary traditions. In 1918, he graduated from the Zgromadzenie Kupców (Merchants' Assembly) trade school in Warsaw, and from 1918–1920, he served as a volunteer in the Polish Army. After completing his law studies, he joined the bar – in 1931, he was entered on the list of attorneys. Already during his student years, he was one of the most ac…

Born on 8 July 1877 in Warsaw, he died on 10 August 1965. He studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1897–1901 and in 1910 obtained a doctorate in law at the University of Neuchâtel. A criminal lawyer, he was one of the founders of the doctrine of international criminal law. Before 1914 he was an advocate and defence counsel in political trials; in 1917–1919 a judge of the Warsaw Court of Appeal, and from 1919 to 1951 a judge of the Supreme Court of Poland. From 1919 he was a member, and for many years secretary general, of the Codification Commission of the Republic of Poland; he…

Born in 1804 (according to some sources 1805), died in 1874. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Royal University of Warsaw, which he enrolled in in 1822, in the 1820s – sources cite the year 1825 or 1829. Edward Baron Rastawiecki, of the Sas coat of arms, was born in Nowosiółki in the Lublin region into a wealthy landowning family; his father was Ludwik Rastawiecki, Castellan of the Kingdom of Poland. He graduated from the Warsaw Lyceum and then studied in the administrative section of the university's Faculty of Law and Administration. After his studies,…

Born in 1847, died in 1915. He completed studies in law and administration at the Faculty of Law of the Main School of Warsaw (Szkoła Główna Warszawska) in 1867, and in 1869, he obtained a master's degree. Gustaw Jan Nepomucen Roszkowski was born on April 7, 1847, in Syrniki. He was an outstanding lawyer, professor of international law and philosophy of law. After graduating from gymnasium in Warsaw, he studied at the Main School of Warsaw – the historical predecessor of the University of Warsaw – and supplemented his legal education at universities in Jena, Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Pa…

Born in 1978 in Warsaw. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2004. Her master's thesis, on the substance and legal character of property relations between spouses, was written under the supervision of Professor Krzysztof Pietrzykowski, a civil law scholar specialising in family and cooperative law and a judge of the Supreme Court. The standard of that thesis allowed her to be admitted to doctoral studies at the same faculty, which she completed with a very good result; she prepared a doctoral dissertation in matrimonial property law, co…

She was born in 1982 in Warsaw. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2007; she also studied applied social sciences at the University of Warsaw and at Cardiff Law School in the United Kingdom. She completed her advocate's apprenticeship in 2011, practised as an advocate from 2011 to 2015 and has been a legal counsel (radca prawny) since 2015. For ten years she worked in law firms, including Wardyński & Partners and Dewey & LeBoeuf, handling cases on human rights, freedom of expression, the rights of persons with disabilities and…

Born in 1944. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1969. A Polish lawyer, economist, and state official, specializing in the administrative and legal aspects of cultural heritage protection. He was born in Warsaw into a family of teachers. After completing his studies, he underwent his traineeship at the Provincial Court for the capital city of Warsaw, which concluded in 1972 with a judge's examination. For decades, he utilized his legal and supervisory competencies in government structures, heading, among other things, the legal and…

Szymon Rundstein (born 19 November 1876 in Warsaw – some sources give 21 or 24 November; died in August 1942 in the Treblinka II extermination camp) was an advocate, civil law scholar, legal theorist and one of the most eminent Polish specialists in international law. In 1894–1898 he studied at the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw, graduating with the highest distinction, a gold medal and the degree of candidate of laws (1898). He obtained a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg (1900, according to some findings 1901) and until 1906 pursued research in Berlin under Profe…

Born in 1949. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. A lawyer, professor of legal sciences, expert in criminology, constitutional law, and human rights, born in Ciechanów. He obtained his doctorate in legal sciences in 1978, his habilitation in 1990, and the title of professor of legal sciences in 2000. He linked his academic career with the University of Warsaw: he worked at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization, where he headed the Department of Criminology and Criminal Policy, and from 2002–2005, he was Dea…

Kazimierz Sabbat was born on 27 February 1913 in Bieliny Kapitulne. He studied law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1935–1939, obtaining his degree just before the outbreak of the war; he intended to become a barrister. A scouting leader and politician, he is remembered as the long-serving prime minister (1976–1986) and the penultimate President of the Republic of Poland in exile (1986–1989). As a student he founded the „Kuźnica” academic senior-scouting circles, on which the Warsaw headquarters of the wartime Grey Ranks later drew. In September 1939 he fought in the Tarnop…

Born in 1950. He graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1972. A professor of law, constitutionalist and legal philosopher, he is among the world's most widely cited scholars of Central and Eastern European constitutional law. A participant in the doctoral seminar of Professor Stanisław Ehrlich, in 1974 he obtained a diploma of the College Universitaire d'Etudes Federalistes in Aosta, and in 1975–1976 studied at the Institut européen des hautes études internationales in Nice. In 1977 he defended at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw a doctoral dissertat…

Born in 1949. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. A lawyer, judge, and professor of legal sciences, specializing in civil, European, and medical law. Since 1973, he was an academic staff member at his alma mater; in 1980, he obtained a Ph.D. in legal sciences, in 1990, he obtained a habilitated doctor degree based on his awarded dissertation “Law in the Face of Intervention in the Nature of Human Procreation,” and in 1998, he received the title of professor of legal sciences. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he became inv…

Born in 1949. She completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. Dorota Maria Safjan was born on December 14, 1949, in Warsaw. She is a Polish lawyer and state official, a doctor of legal sciences, specializing in administrative law and public finance. In 1976, she obtained a PhD in legal sciences. She worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and as a research fellow at the Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education. In the 1980s, she participated in the work of the Centrum Obywa…

She completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2006. A Polish lawyer, legal counsel, and since June 2024, Dean of the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw – the largest regional legal advisers' chamber in Poland. After graduation, she completed her legal counsel traineeship in the Warsaw chamber and in 2010 was entered on the list of legal counsels. In her professional practice, she provided legal assistance both as a lawyer employed under an employment contract and by running her own legal counsel office; she specializes in civil…

Born in 1906, died in 1974. He completed his law studies at the University of Warsaw and obtained the right to practice as a lawyer in 1929. A lawyer, Zionist activist, and Israeli politician, he was one of the co-creators of Israeli state institutions in its first decades. He was born in Białystok, where he graduated from a Hebrew gymnasium. During his time in Warsaw, he was actively involved in the Zionist movement: he chaired the Federation of Zionist Academics in Warsaw, served on the central committee of radical Zionists in Poland, and in 1930 became personal secretary to Nahum Sokolow, o…

Born in 1960. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. Television and radio journalist, widely regarded as one of the masters of television commentary and sharp, yet cultured political satire. He was born in Warsaw; after his law studies, he completed postgraduate journalism studies and did not pursue legal professions, choosing instead to work in the media. He developed his career during the heyday of Polish Radio Program Three (Program Trzeci Polskiego Radia), where he co-created legendary journalistic and entertainment programs, including “Zapraszamy…

Born in 1846, died in 1916. In 1866 he began studies at the Szkoła Główna Warszawska (main school of Warsaw, predecessor of the University of Warsaw), which he did not complete – he left the university in 1871 without a diploma. A Polish novelist, short story writer, and publicist, one of the most famous writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. In accordance with his parents' wishes, he enrolled in the faculty of medicine, but quickly transferred to the faculty of law, only to ultimately study at the faculty of philology and history…

Born in 1913, died in 1994. A graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1935. An advocate and one of the most distinguished defence counsel in political trials in communist Poland, a soldier of the Home Army and of the Freedom and Independence association (WiN), and a judge of the State Tribunal. From 1936 to 1939 he was an official in the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education. In the 1939 campaign he fought in the 6th Mounted Rifles Regiment and was severely wounded; he then served in the Service for Poland's Victory, the Union of Armed Struggle and the…

Jacek Skubikowski (born 25 September 1954 in Warsaw, died 13 June 2007) was a singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist, and at the same time a lawyer – a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw (degree in the 1970s). He supplemented his education with studies in sound engineering and record production at the Media Music Services school in London. In Polish popular music he is remembered above all as the creator of major hits: he wrote the lyrics of the iconic Lady Pank songs 'Zawsze tam gdzie ty' and 'Tacy sami', collaborated with the band Lombard, and his songs were perform…

Bronisław Paweł Sobolewski was born on 25 June 1870 in Jatwieź on the Neman, the son of Bronisław and Jadwiga née Dowiatt. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw (the exact year of his diploma has not been established) and then served his legal apprenticeship in the Warsaw courts. From 1901 he ran his own law office in Warsaw and won renown as defence counsel in political trials; he belonged to the Circle of Political Defenders, working alongside Stanisław Patek, Leon Berenson and Wacław Barcikowski and providing legal aid to defendants in p…

Stefan Soboniewski, born on 7 December 1906 in Kamyk near Częstochowa, was educated in Częstochowa and completed law studies at the University of Warsaw; he was a lawyer and civil servant of interwar Poland, the last pre-war starosta (district governor) of Kalisz, and after 1945 one of the mainstays of the Polish emigration in Britain. He was active in the Union of Polish Democratic Youth, worked at the Ministry of Public Works and then at the Ministry of the Interior, where he was the ministry's liaison with the Sejm and the Senate, and helped organise the model-village exhibition at Lisków.…

Born in 1993. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2017. Dariusz Standerski was born on July 16, 1993, in Oborniki. He is a Polish lawyer, economist, and politician. He studied at the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Humanities and Social Studies of the University of Warsaw, simultaneously completing economic studies (bachelor's and master's degrees in 2016 and 2017, respectively) and law studies (master's degree in 2017). In 2023, he obtained a PhD in social sciences in the discipline of economics and finance. He is an ass…

Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (born 1921 in Zakręt near Warsaw, died 2010 in Warsaw) was a screenwriter, novelist and film director, widely regarded as the leading screenwriter of the Polish Film School. He enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw just before the outbreak of the Second World War; his studies, interrupted by the occupation, were completed after his return to Poland, with a diploma received in 1952. He fought in the September Campaign of 1939, served in the Home Army underground and commanded a company in the Warsaw Uprising; after its fall he was held in the Murnau P…

Born in 1896, died in 1988. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw in 1920. An advocate, she was one of the first women admitted to the Polish bar and one of the most important defence counsel in political trials of both the Second Republic and communist Poland. She began her legal apprenticeship with Leon Supiński, later President of the Supreme Court; after moving to Kraków she had to break it off, because the Kraków bar then admitted only men to training, and completed it after that practice changed in 1923. She was entered on the roll of advocates in 1931 and in 1938 was appointed b…

Born in 1946. He completed law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1969. A lawyer, judge, and politician, one of the co-creators of reborn local government and an authority in the field of constitutional and political system law. After graduation, he completed his judicial apprenticeship (1969–1971), then worked as an assessor, and from 1973 as a judge in courts in Kielce. From his student days, he was involved in opposition activities, participated in the strikes of 1980, and co-founded NSZZ "Solidarność" (Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Sol…

Born in 1967. She completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1994. A Polish lawyer and state official, an expert in the field of telecommunications and digitalization, born in Warsaw. She began her professional career in public administration – from 1995–1997 she worked at the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, and then served as an advisor to successive ministers of communications in Jerzy Buzek's government. In 2006, she became head of the newly established Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej (Office of Electronic Communications…

Tadeusz Wiktor Strzembosz (born 28 October 1864 in Libiszow in the Opoczno district, died 19 October 1913 in Warsaw) was a sworn advocate, publisher and social activist. In 1884–1889 he studied at the Faculty of Law of the Imperial University of Warsaw; no available source mentions his diploma explicitly, yet the appointment as sworn advocate that he received in 1894 required completed legal studies, and he is therefore regarded as a probable graduate of the faculty (c. 1889). While still a student, from 1887, he was active in the clandestine Union of Polish Youth. He practised as an advocate…

Born in 1930, died in 2025. He completed legal studies in 1953, earning a master's degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. A Polish lawyer, judge, and academic teacher, professor of legal sciences, one of the most important figures in the Polish judiciary after 1989. Born on September 11, 1930, in Warsaw. He obtained a doctorate in legal sciences in 1969, habilitated in 1979, and received the title of professor in 1986. He specialized in criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminology; he conducted scientific work, among others, at the Institute of Social Prevention and Res…

Born in 1967. A graduate of law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. Radio and television journalist, publicist, one of the most recognizable personalities in Polish media, commonly known as Kuba Strzyczkowski. Although a lawyer by education, he has dedicated his entire professional career to the media. In the late 1980s, he began working at Program Trzeci Polskiego Radia (Polish Radio Channel 3), with which he remained associated for over three decades, until 2020, co-creating the unique identity of the station–initially as a reporter, later as a host of fla…

Jakub Stypuła (born 1979) is a Polish energy and construction sector manager, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. He also completed postgraduate studies in project management at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and studies in international business management at the Vistula University of Finance and Business; he is a certified project manager and holds the professional rank of third-degree mining director. He began his career at the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (2003–2006) as a specialist in European funds. From…

Aleksandra Stypułkowska, née Rabska (born 7 October 1906 in Warsaw, died 20 March 1982 in London) was an advocate, resistance member, prisoner of Pawiak and Ravensbrück, and after the war one of the most distinguished commentators of the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe. She was the daughter of the writer Zuzanna Rabska and granddaughter of the historian Aleksander Kraushar. After her matura at the Cecylia Plater-Zyberkówna school in Warsaw in 1924, she read law at the University of Warsaw, graduating in 1928. From 1927 she was married to the advocate and politician Zbigniew Stypułkowski; u…

Zbigniew Stypułkowski (born 26 March 1904 in Warsaw, died 30 March 1979 in London) was an advocate and National Democratic politician, a defendant in the Moscow Trial of the Sixteen. As a schoolboy he took part in disarming German troops in Warsaw in November 1918, and in 1920 fought as a volunteer in the war against the Bolsheviks aboard the armoured train „Mściciel”. In 1925 he obtained his master\'s degree from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Warsaw, completed his pupillage and practised as an advocate in Warsaw, winning renown as a criminal defence counsel of…

Born in 1956. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1979, and in 1989, he earned a doctorate in legal sciences there. Cezary Stypułkowski, born in Mrągowo, is one of the most experienced managers in the Polish financial sector, with which he has been associated for over three decades. In the second half of the 1980s, as a Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the Columbia University Business School in New York. From 1991 to 2003, he headed the management board of Bank Handlowy in Warsaw, guiding one of the oldest Polish financial instit…

Born in 1884, died in 1939. He completed law studies at the University of Warsaw. Polish lawyer, press publisher, and social activist, one of the most important figures in interwar Łódź public life. He was born on January 9, 1884, in Nieszawa. After completing his law studies, he settled in Łódź around 1910, where he practiced law at Nowy Rynek (later Freedom Square). He was involved in the cooperative movement – in 1912, he co-founded a cooperative society and the workers' consumer association "Wyzwolenie" (Liberation). in December 1919, together with partners (between 1920 and 1923, former P…

Adolf Suligowski (1849–1932) is remembered as an advocate, scholar and tireless champion of municipal self-government. Born in Warsaw on 3 March 1849, he attended secondary school in Lublin and from 1868 studied law at the Warsaw Main School; he completed his studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw, taking his degree in 1872. After a judicial apprenticeship and the judge's examination (1875) he became a patron at the Civil Tribunal in Warsaw and, from 1877, a sworn advocate. Alongside an extensive civil-law practice he undertook the work that made him a classic of Polish legal scholarship…

Leon Władysław Supiński was born on 18 February 1874 in Gołębiówka near Węgrów and died on 2 March 1950 in Warsaw. He began his legal studies at the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw but was not allowed to finish them there: in 1894 he was convicted of political activity and deported, and he took his law degree in 1896 at the University of Dorpat (Tartu). Back in Warsaw he became a pillar of the city's legal and civic life: in 1906 he co-founded the Circle of Polish Lawyers, was among the founders of the Cooperativists' Society and of the 'Patronat' Society for the Care of Prisoners, whose…

Wojciech Szacki, born on 9 September 1978, graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2002; he is a journalist and political analyst, for years one of the most frequently quoted observers of Polish politics, whose speciality is cool, data-driven analysis of party life, election campaigns and the legislative process, grounded in a close knowledge of how decisions are actually made. He entered journalism immediately after graduation: from 2002 to 2012 he worked for the daily „Gazeta Wyborcza”, covering political and social affairs, reporting on the…

Karolina Szostak was born on 15 August 1975 in Warsaw. She completed a five-year Master's programme in law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. She is one of the longest-serving women in Polish sports journalism, and the skills of rapid analysis and precise, disciplined expression instilled by her legal studies remain an important foundation of her live broadcasting work. Her television career began early: at fifteen she presented the 'Szortpress' review in the TVP programme '5-10-15', and she subsequently completed a traineeship at the news programme 'Teleexpr…

Michał Szubski is a Polish legal adviser and gas industry executive, a law graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw (1994), who also completed postgraduate studies, including in the management of energy enterprises. He joined Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG), Poland's largest gas company, responsible for the exploration, production, import, storage and distribution of natural gas, in 1994, serving successively as director of the company's Presidential Office and of its Legal Office. From October 2000 he worked at the Mazovian Gas Works – Gazo…

Teresa Torańska (born 1944 in Wołkowysk, died 2013 in Warsaw) was a journalist and writer, celebrated as a master of the press interview. She graduated in law from the University of Warsaw (diploma circa 1967) and completed a postgraduate course in journalism. She worked for the weekly Argumenty and the monthly Światowid, and from 1975 until the imposition of martial law she was a reporter for the Warsaw weekly Kultura. Between 1981 and 1984 she conducted a series of conversations with former Stalinist dignitaries – including Jakub Berman, Edward Ochab and Stefan Staszewski – which formed her…

Born in 1956 in Warsaw, he completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1979 and his advocate's training in 1986, joining the Warsaw Bar. He is one of the leading figures of the Polish Bar of recent decades: dean of the Warsaw Regional Bar Council in 2001–2007, president of the Polish Bar Council (Naczelna Rada Adwokacka) in 2016–2021 and, since 2023, a senator of the Republic of Poland. He has been active in the Bar's self-government since the late 1980s: in 1989–1992 he sat as a judge of the Disciplinary Court of the Warsaw Bar Chamber, in…

Born in 1970 in Lodz. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1994. A judge of the Regional Court in Warsaw, adjudicating in criminal cases since 1996, a lecturer and author of publications on criminal law, and a member of the Iustitia Polish Judges Association. After his judicial traineeship he began adjudicating in district courts of the Warsaw area, including Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki; in 2010, after fourteen years on the bench, he was appointed a judge of the Regional Court in Warsaw, where he sits in the criminal division, and in 2012-2013 he w…

He was born in 1926 and died in 2010. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw in 1946. An advocate and diplomat, a soldier of the Home Army and a participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, he is regarded as one of the most distinguished figures of the twentieth-century Polish bar. After graduating he completed a judicial traineeship in Warsaw and passed the judicial examination in 1948, then completed advocate training, and in 1950 he was entered on the roll of advocates of the Warsaw bar, beginning a practice he maintained for more than half a century. He led a well-known Warsaw law firm,…

Jacek Walczykowski (born circa 1954) is a Polish legal counsel and manager, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw (1978). He completed postgraduate studies in industrial property protection at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1981) and passed the judge's examination (1984) and the legal adviser's examination (1985). For over two decades (1979–2002) he was associated with Elektrim S.A., where he served as legal counsel, secretary of the supervisory board and vice-president of the management board; between 1987 and 1999 he also ran his own legal pra…

Born in 1946. She completed her law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1969, and obtained a doctorate in legal sciences there in 1977. Danuta Waniek, born in Włocławek, is a lawyer, academic teacher, and left-wing politician, with a postdoctoral degree (doktor habilitowany); she specializes in constitutional issues and constitutional practice. In the early 1990s, she headed the Independent Laboratory of Constitutional Practice at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She widely utilized her legal and constitutional kn…

Born in 1892, died in 1974. A graduate of law at the University of Warsaw in 1923; he had begun his studies at the Jagiellonian University, interrupting them to serve in the war of 1920. A classic of Polish literary reportage, a writer and a publisher. After graduating he headed the press department of the Ministry of the Interior, and in 1924 founded the Rój publishing house, of which he was co-owner and editor-in-chief until 1939. He gained wide recognition with Szczenięce lata (1934) and Na tropach Smętka (1936). He spent the war abroad and, as a correspondent of the Second Polish Corps, re…

Born in 1947. He graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1970. An advocate, founder and partner of the law firm Wardyński & Partners, he is one of the most experienced Polish counsel and arbitrators in international commercial arbitration. He continued his studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (1973) and at the Institute of Higher European Studies of the University of Strasbourg (1974–1975), and in 1985 held a scholarship of the American Bar Foundation. He has been in private legal practice since 1979; the firm now known as Wardyński & Partners dates back to 1988 and was…

Born in 1910 in Kalisz, she died on 1 December 1996 in Warsaw. She completed her law studies at the University of Warsaw in 1932 and worked at her alma mater as an assistant from 1933 to 1939. She was the first female judge of the Supreme Court of Poland (1948) and the first woman to serve as a government minister in Polish history, heading the Ministry of Justice in the cabinet of Józef Cyrankiewicz from April 1956 to February 1957. Her biography reflects the complexity of Poland's post-war history: from 1948 she belonged to the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), serving as a deputy member…

Bohdan Wasiutyński (born 25 December 1882 in Pskov, died 29 December 1940 in Warsaw) was a lawyer, professor of administrative law, political writer, senator of the Second Polish Republic and dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. He completed his legal studies at the Imperial University of Warsaw in 1904 with the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences, and in 1904–1905 continued his education at the universities of Berlin and Munich. Early associated with the National Democratic movement, he was a member of the National League, editor of „Przegląd Narodowy” (1908–1915) and, du…

He was born in 1971. Between 1990 and 1996 he studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, obtaining a master's degree in law; in 1999 he completed his apprenticeship, passed the bar examination and began practising, and since 2003 he has run his own law firm. He specialises in civil, constitutional and European law. In July 2017, together with Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, Maria Ejchart and Paulina Kieszkowska-Knapik, he co-founded the Free Courts civic initiative, and in 2018 he was among the initiators of the Justice Defence Committee (KOS), a platform providing…

Born in 1938, died in 2024. A graduate of administrative studies at the University of Warsaw. Danuta Kazimiera Wawrzynkiewicz was born on March 4, 1938, in Warsaw. She was an administrativist and state official, for decades considered one of the most outstanding specialists in public finance and the legal-financial aspects of the functioning of local government. She began her professional career in 1956 in the financial departments of the Voivodeship and Capital City National Councils in Warsaw, where she worked until 1981. From 1982, she was associated with the Ministry of Finance, where she…

Born in 1809, died in 1879. He completed studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Royal University of Warsaw in 1830. A Polish historian, archivist, and Warsaw specialist (varsavianista), a pioneer in research on the history of Warsaw. Born on April 24, 1809, in Warsaw, the son of Antoni Wejnert, a musician of Czech origin. He completed legal and administrative studies between 1827 and 1830 at the Royal University of Warsaw, the historical predecessor of today's University of Warsaw. From 1832, he worked as a municipal official in Warsaw; in 1857, he took up the position of chie…

Born in 1982. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2006. A lawyer, professor at the University of Warsaw, specializing in constitutional law and human rights protection, since 2021 the Commissioner for Human Rights (Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich). He was born in Mińsk Mazowiecki. Parallel to his law studies, he completed the Center for American Law, conducted at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the University of Florida. In 2009, he defended his doctoral dissertation on legal ques…

Aleksander Wielopolski, Margrave Gonzaga-Myszkowski, was born on 13 March 1803 in Sędziejowice and died on 30 December 1877 in Dresden. He belongs to those alumni of Warsaw legal education who left the university without a degree: he studied law at the Royal University of Warsaw in 1820–1822, but broke off his studies and went abroad, taking a doctorate in philosophy at Göttingen in 1823. In 1831 he served as an envoy of the insurrectionary government to London, and his 'Letter of a Polish Nobleman to Prince Metternich' (1846) won European notoriety. His career culminated in the early 1860s: i…

Lucyna Winnicka (born 1928 in Warsaw, died 2013) was a stage and film actress and later a journalist and writer. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1950 and from the State Theatre School (PWST) in Warsaw in 1953. She made her screen debut in Under the Phrygian Star (1954) and appeared in twenty-one films up to 1978. Her most important roles came in the films of Jerzy Kawalerowicz, her husband: Róża in The Real End of the Great War (1957), Marta in Night Train (1959) and the title role in Mother Joan of the Angels, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 C…

Born in 1978 in Piekary Śląskie. He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2002; during his studies he chaired the student government of his faculty. A lawyer and entrepreneur, his career combines the analysis of economic regulation with administrative and legislative practice. After graduating he worked at the Adam Smith Centre and at large advisory firms – Deloitte and Ernst & Young, where he handled tax advisory work – and later ran his own consultancy. From 2005 to 2008 he was director of the Department for the Diversification of Ener…

Born in 1903, died in 1941. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1928. Edmund Wojciechowski was born on July 16, 1903, as the son of Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of the Republic of Poland from 1922 to 1926, and Maria née Kiersnowska. After graduation, he joined the Warsaw bar, practicing as a lawyer; he was also a legal counsel for the cooperative union “Społem”. He became known as an aesthete, lover, and collector of works of art, especially Polish painting. After the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of Warsaw by the Germans, he wa…

Born in 1950. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1971. Bogusław Wołoszański, born in Piotrków Trybunalski, is a television journalist and one of the most recognized Polish popularizers of 20th-century history. After graduating from law school, he continued his education at the Institute of Journalism at the University of Warsaw, and in 1971 began working with Telewizja Polska (Polish Television), where he advanced through various editorial positions. In 1983, the broadcast of his most famous program, “Sensacje XX wieku” (Sensati…

Jan Kanty Wołowski was born on 21 September 1803 in Warsaw. In 1822 he graduated in law from the Royal University of Warsaw. He ranked among the most eminent civil-law scholars and practitioners of the Kingdom of Poland in the decades between the November and January Uprisings. After his apprenticeship he worked at the Warsaw correctional police court; from 1828 he practised as an advocate at the Court of Appeal and later at the Court of Highest Instance of the Kingdom of Poland, and after 1836 he also served as consistorial advocate at the General Consistory of the Evangelical Confessions. He…

Witold Woyda (born 10 May 1939 in Poznań, died 5 May 2008 in Bronxville, New York) was a foil fencer, double Olympic champion and a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw (degree around 1963). He took up fencing in 1953 through a school recruitment drive and represented the Warsaw clubs Budowlani and Marymont throughout his career. His talent showed early: he finished fourth at the junior world championships in Warsaw (1957) and, aged twenty-one, fourth in the individual event at the Rome Olympics (1960). With the Polish foil team he won Olympic silver in Tokyo (1964) and b…

Włodzimierz Wyganowski was born in 1867 or 1868 in Dębowice and died on 13 April 1932 in Warsaw. He is among the least documented figures in the gallery of justice ministers of the Second Republic. He finished the gymnasium in Kalisz and then – as the available accounts state – studied in Warsaw and in St Petersburg; this means that he acquired part of his legal education at the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw, but he did not take a Warsaw degree – he most probably completed his studies in St Petersburg, though the sources do not allow the place or date of his diploma to be confirmed bey…

Born in 1931, died in 2026. He completed legal studies at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw, receiving his diploma from the University of Warsaw. Eugeniusz Wyzner was born on October 31, 1931, in Chełmno. He was one of the most distinguished Polish diplomats with thorough legal training; he supplemented his education with studies at the Academy of International Law in The Hague. He began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1956 in the Department of Legal and Treaty Affairs, becoming its director in 1971. From 1961 to 1968, he was Deputy Permanent Representat…

Born in 1950. A graduate of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1974. A judge of the Supreme Court from 1991 to 2020 and President of the Supreme Court heading the Criminal Chamber from 2016 to 2020, previously an advocate, he is regarded as one of Poland's foremost specialists in criminal law and criminal procedure. After graduating he worked until 1977 as a researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law of the University of Warsaw, at the same time completing his judicial traineeship and passing the judicial examination. From 1980 to 1991 he practised as…

Born in 1907, died in 1984. He began his law studies in 1927 at the University of Warsaw, and from 1930 continued them at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, where he earned his Master's degree in 1936. Poet, essayist, playwright, literary and theater critic, and translator. He was born in Kyiv into a lawyer's family. During his time in Vilnius, he was among the co-founders and leading figures of the Żagary poetic group (alongside Czesław Miłosz and Teodor Bujnicki, among others), edited its journal, and is considered one of the main representatives of the catastrophic trend in interwar Polis…

Born in 1912, died in 2002. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw in 1936, earning a Master's degree. A press historian, bibliographer, Varsavianist (Warsaw-studies specialist), lawyer, librarian, and bibliophile, he was a professor of humanities. He initially studied at the Institut Supérieur de Commerce in Antwerp, and from 1932, he simultaneously studied at the School of Political Sciences in Warsaw (in the Consular-Diplomatic Department) and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw; after his studies, he worked in a notary's office. After World War II, h…

Born in 1944. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 1966. Bohdan Marian Zdziennicki, born in Augustów, is a Polish lawyer, judge, and doctor of legal sciences. In 1969, he passed the judicial examination, and in 1974, he obtained a doctoral degree. He developed his academic and teaching career at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at his alma mater, the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. From 1977, he was associated with the Ministry of Justice, where as deputy director…

Born in 1903, died in 2006. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. Władysław Marcel Żeleński, born on July 11, 1903, in Parchacz, came from a well-known Kraków intellectual family – he was the nephew of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński and the grandson of the composer Władysław Żeleński. After completing his studies, he joined the judiciary, working as a prosecutor for the District Court in Warsaw. He went down in history as a co-prosecutor in the high-profile trial concerning the assassination of Minister of Internal Affairs Bronisław Pieracki, which took place be…

Born in 1907, died in 1997. He completed his law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1930. A lawyer, politician, publicist, and independence activist whose life intertwined with the most important events of 20th-century Polish history. He was born in Warsaw; he began his studies in 1924, and their completion was delayed by political involvement – from 1922 he belonged to the Riflemen's Association (Związek Strzelecki), was one of the leaders of the Union of Polish Democratic Youth (Związek Polskiej Młodzieży Demokratycznej), and an activist of the Union of Young Lawyer…

Born in 1900, died in 1940. He completed his law studies at the University of Warsaw. Stanisław Zgliczyński, born on April 27, 1900, in Płock, was a lawyer and social activist, one of the more important figures in the public life of interwar Płock. In 1918, he graduated from Władysław Jagiełło Gymnasium in Płock, after which he voluntarily joined the Polish Army. During the Polish-Bolshevik War, he served in the 4th Mounted Rifle Regiment, and from February to November 1919, he was on the Belarusian front. In 1920, he completed training at the Officer Cadet School in Bydgoszcz and the Cavalry…

Born in 1945, she graduated in law from the University of Warsaw in 1968. A retired professor of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and an advocate, she is an internationally recognised criminal law scholar specialising in comparative criminal law, medical criminal law, offences against sexual freedom and the legal protection of women's rights. Her academic career has been linked entirely with the University: she received her doctorate in law in 1974 for a dissertation on the penalty of restriction of liberty, obtained her habilitation in 1986 on the basis of a c…

Born in 1931, died in 2022. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. A Polish lawyer, judge, and professor of legal sciences, an outstanding civil law scholar. Born on June 28, 1931, in Pruszków. He obtained a doctorate in legal sciences in 1968, habilitated in 1975, and received the title of professor in 1989. From 1955 to 1982, he served as a judge – first in the District Court, and then in the higher court for the capital city of Warsaw. In 1970, he took up the position of director of the legal department in the Ministry of Justice, and from 1994 to 1…

Born in 1942. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw in 1965, and in 1967, he also completed the University of Warsaw's School of Journalism. Newspaper, radio, and television journalist, presenter, and publicist, one of the most recognizable Polish popularizers of motoring. Born in Warsaw. Although he acquired a solid legal education, his entire professional life was connected with the media, combining journalism with a passion for cars and sports. For years, he collaborated with Polish Radio, including Program Trzeci (Third Program), and became known to the…

Born in 1978. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and the Warsaw School of Economics, where he studied international economic and political relations. An economist and lawyer, doctor of economic sciences, academic teacher, and recognized expert in monetary policy, public finance, and economic policy. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2007 at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, based on a dissertation focused on public funds in Poland during the transformation period. From 2008 to 2014, he was an assistant professor at the I…

Antoni Żychliński was born on 16 May 1874 in the village of Mogilnica in the Sokołów district. In 1899 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Russian Imperial University of Warsaw. He began his professional career at the bar, practising as an advocate in Lublin, where he earned the standing of a highly regarded practitioner. After the restoration of Polish courts he became prosecutor of the Court of Appeal in Lublin in 1918, taking part in organising the administration of justice of the reborn state. Having moved to Warsaw, he served as deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, and in 1920,…