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Tadeusz Zembrzuski
Associate Prof., PhD habil.

Tadeusz

Zembrzuski

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Office hours for students

Dyżur w roku akademickim 2025/2026
środa godz.12.00-13:00 pok. 302 CI I

zembrzuski@wpia.uw.edu.pl

General information

Professional profile:

  • Doctor habilitated in legal sciences

  • Professor at the University of Warsaw

  • University Professor in the Department of Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (research and teaching staff)

  • Proxy of the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw for cooperation with legal self-governing bodies

  • Vice President of the Board of the Alumni Club – Alumni of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Discipline of Legal Sciences at the University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Council of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Didactic Council at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

  • Chairman of the Nostrification Committee of the RD at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Competition Committee of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Employment Committee of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Permanent Doctoral Committee no. 2 of the WPIA UW – civil law

  • Member of the Faculty Electoral Committee of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw (2012-2016)

  • Supervisor of the Law programme – Integrated Didactic Development Programme – ZIP 2.0

  • Member of the Electoral College of the University of Warsaw

  • Member of the Qualification Team for the discipline of legal sciences of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw

  • Legal counsel – District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw (WA-6777)

  • Lecturer at the District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw (since 2010)

  • Member of the Professional Development Committee of the District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw (8th, 9th, 10th terms)

  • Member of the Bureau of Studies and Analyses of the Supreme Court (since 2009)

  • Member of the task force of the Civil Law Codification Commission for the new codification of civil procedure (since 2024)

  • Member of the task force of the Civil Law Codification Commission for procedural civil law (since 2024)

  • Member of the task force of the Civil Law Codification Commission for court proceedings involving consumers (since 2024)

  • Member of the task force of the Civil Law Codification Commission for civil procedure (2011 – 2015)

  • Member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL)

  • Member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S)

  • Member of the Scientific Society of Civil Proceduralists (TNPC)

  • Member of the Programme Council of the Research and Training Centre at the National Council of Enforcement Officers

  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Research on the Axiology of Civil Procedures

  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Polish Notarial Institute

  • Member of the Programme Council of the monthly journal of the Association of Polish Notaries "Rejent"

  • Member of the Programme Council of the quarterly journal Access to Justice in Eastern Europe (AJEE Journal)

  • Member of the Programme Council of the journal Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Legal Studies

  • Member of the Programme Council of the Gdańsk Court Quarterly

  • Member of the Board of Reviewers of twenty-five legal journals – Access to Justice in Eastern Europe; The KES Journal; Państwo i Prawo; Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego; Rejent; Palestra; Polski Proces Cywilny; Forum Prawnicze; Zeszyty Prawnicze UKSW; Przegląd Sejmowy; Zeszyty Prawnicze Biura Analiz Sejmowych; Studia Prawnoustrojowe; Ekonomia i Prawo. Economics and Law; Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze; Przegląd Prawa Egzekucyjnego; Przegląd Ustawodawstwa Gospodarczego; Prawo w Działaniu; Studia Iuridica Lublinensia; Studia Prawnicze KUL; Acta Iuridica Resoviensia; Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne Studia nad Prawem; Ius Novum; Przegląd Prawa Medycznego; Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego; Paragraf. Studia z Prawa i Administracji.

  • Member of the Examination Committee for the bailiff traineeship at the Minister of Justice

  • Member of the Competition Committee of the Scientific Society of Civil Proceduralists and Polish Civil Procedure for the best master's thesis in the field of civil procedure

  • Member of the Competition Committee of the Association of Polish Notaries for the best master's thesis in the field of notary law and civil law related to the performance of notarial acts, as well as the law on land registers and mortgage

  • Member of the Competition Committee of the National Competition for a Commentary

  • Member of the Competition Committee for a commentary of the Court Watch Poland Foundation – Ars boni et aequi – The art of what is good and just

Supervisor:

  • Student Research Group of Legal Professions of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw (since 2023)

  • Student Research Group of Procedural Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw (2011 – 2023)

  • Academic Law Tourist Club "PAKT" of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw (2009 – 2020)

Academic Degrees:

  • Professional title of Master of Law in legal sciences at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw – full-time master's studies in 1999 – 2004 completed with honours.

  • Academic degree of Doctor of Legal Sciences in the field of law awarded by Resolution of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw of 25 June 2007, based on the doctoral dissertation entitled Access to the Supreme Court and the cassation appeal in civil proceedings.

  • Doctoral supervisor: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Ereciński; doctoral reviewers: prof. UMCS dr hab. Andrzej Jakubecki, dr hab. Karol Weitz

  • Academic degree of Habilitated Doctor of Legal Sciences in the field of law awarded by Resolution of the Council of the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw of 19 March 2018.

  • As a scientific achievement in the scientific discipline of law – within the meaning of Article 16, paragraph 2 of the Act on academic degrees and academic title and on degrees and title in the field of art – the monograph Invalidity of proceedings in civil procedure, Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2017, ISBN: 978-83-8107-844-3, was indicated. Monograph publishing reviewers: prof. dr hab. Karol Weitz and dr hab. prof. UKSW Andrzej Zieliński.

  • Chairman of the Habilitation Committee: prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Lubiński; habilitation reviewers: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Marciniak, prof. dr hab. Piotr Pogonowski, prof. dr hab. Feliks Zedler

  • By Resolution of 19 March 2018, the Council of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw recognised the aforementioned monograph as a special scientific achievement and deemed the habilitation thesis outstanding (Resolution no. 08/03/2018/H)

  • As of 1 March 2021, employed at the University of Warsaw as a University Professor.

  • In 2022, a two-month research internship (March – April) at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Awards:

  • Winner of the LexisNexis and Przegląd Sądowy Editorial Competition for "the legal book most useful in the practice of justice in 2008" for the monograph Dostępność skargi kasacyjnej w procesie cywilnym – February 2010.

  • Medal of the 30th anniversary of the National Chamber of Legal Counsels "For merits for the self-government of legal counsels KIRP 1982 – 2012"

  • Medal of the 35th anniversary of the professional self-government of legal counsels "In recognition of merits for the self-government of legal counsels XXX years KIRP 1982 – 2017" – December 2012.

  • Medal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court "Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland 1917-2017" (Order of the First President of the Supreme Court No. 38/2017 of 1 September 2017)

  • Winner of the Competition for the award of the President of the State Treasury Solicitors' Office for the best habilitation thesis (2nd edition of the Competition in memory of Stanisław Bukowiecki) for the monograph Invalidity of proceedings in civil procedure – December 2018.

  • Winner of the Przegląd Sądowy Editorial and Wolters Kluwer competition for "the legal book most useful in the practice of justice in 2017" for the monograph Invalidity of proceedings in civil procedure – February 2019.

  • Silver badge "Meritorious for the self-government of legal counsels" (by resolution of the Presidium of the National Council of Legal Counsels No. 599/X/2019 of 23 October 2019 – December 2019.

  • Individual Award of the 3rd degree of the Rector of the University of Warsaw – 15 November 2021.

  • Themis statuette for activities for the legal counsel self-government – award of the Council of the District Chamber of Legal Counsels in Warsaw – 6 July 2023.

  • Individual Award of the 3rd degree of the Rector of the University of Warsaw – 27 October 2023.

  • Distinction of the Rector of the University of Warsaw for scientific achievements "in recognition of outstanding activity covering inspiring scientific research and innovative development work – in a special way contributing to the development of the University of Warsaw and maintaining the best traditions of the University" – 15 November 2023.

  • Individual Award of the Rector of the University of Warsaw – 11 December 2024.

Research grants

  • research grant under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (IDUB) programme BOB-661-498/2023, no. 501-D122-20-0004311 at the Faculty of Law, University of Niš (Serbia)

  • research grant under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (IDUB) programme BOB-661-983/2023, no. 501-D122-20-0004311 at the Faculty of Law, University of Štip (North Macedonia)

  • research grant under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (IDUB) programme BOB-661-164/2024, no. 501-D122-20-0004311 at the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek (Croatia)

  • research grant under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (IDUB) programme BOB-661-564/2025, no. 501-D122-20-0002220 at the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University (Republic of South Africa)

  • research grant under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (IDUB) programme BOB-661-68/2026, no. 501-D122-20-0002220 at Emory University in Atlanta (United States of America)

  • research grant under the "Excellence Initiative – Research University" (IDUB) programme BOB-661-889/2026, no. 501-D122-20-0004311 at University College Dublin (UCD) Sutherland School of Law (Ireland)

Teaching schedule

Academic Year 2025/26

Master's Seminar (5th year) "Civil Procedure"

Proseminar (4th year) "Civil Procedural Law - Judicial Protection of Private Rights"

Course Lecture "Civil Proceedings"

Lecture "Enforcement and Interim Proceedings"

 

More information: https://zembrzuski.eu/dla-studenta/wykladane-przedmioty/