Wojciech Brzozowski — Faculty of Law and Administration, UW

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wtorek 15–16, pok. 220 (Collegium Iuridicum I)

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General information

Wojciech Brzozowski is a University Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, where he holds the Chair of Law and Religion. He received his MA (Law, Political Science) and PhD (Law) degrees from the University of Warsaw. Most of his research revolves around the issues of Constitutional Law and Law and Religion, with a particular focus on areas such as the right to conscientious objection, religious education in public schools, and the accommodation of Islam in the European legal space. He was also a co-leader of the Polish team in the EXCEPTIUS project (EXCEPTIUS: Exceptional powers in times of SARS-Cov-2, https://exceptius.com). In 2021, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca with a research project entitled “Understanding conscientious objection”. In 2022, he held a fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) with a project entitled "Freedom of religion or belief in the Orthodox-majority countries before the European Court of Human Rights".

Wojciech Brzozowski currently serves as Vice President of the Polish Association of Law and Religion (PTPW). He is also a member of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), the Observatory on Religious Freedom in the Jurisprudence of the ECHR (ORFECT), and the Advisory Board of the Sofia Legal Science Network (SLSN). In January 2023, he was appointed Deputy Ombudsman of the Republic of Poland.

Publications

2024

‘Konstytucyjne prawo do zmiany wyznania’ [The constitutional right to change religion] (2024) 77 Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego 95

‘La libertà religiosa in Polonia nello specchio della giurisprudenza’ (2024) 1 Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica 187

‘Restrictions on Religious Worship’ in Clara Egger, Raul Magni-Berton, Eugénie de Saint-Phalle (eds), Covid-19 Containment Policies in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) [co-authored by Maksymilian Hau and Oliwia Rybczyńska]

2023

Prawa człowieka [Human rights: a handbook] (4th edn, Wolters Kluwer Polska 2021) [co-authored by Adam Krzywoń and Marcin Wiącek]

‘Autonomia związków wyznaniowych jako zasada ustrojowa i prawo podmiotowe’ [Autonomy of religious associations as a constitutional principle and right] (2023) 71 Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego 27

‘Efekt mrożący’ [Chilling effect] (2023) 4 Przegląd Konstytucyjny 37

'The Dismantling of Power Sharing in Hungary and Poland. Two Roads to the Same Destination?', (2023) Jean Monnet Working Paper 07, https://jeanmonnetprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/JMWP-07-Szelte-Brzozowski.pdf [co-authored by Zoltán Szente]

'Rada Mediów Narodowych w strukturze organów władzy państwowej' [National Media Council in the structure of state bodies] in Aldona Domańska (ed), Zagadnienia prawa konstytucyjnego. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesorowi Krzysztofowi Skotnickiemu w siedemdziesiątą rocznicę urodzin, vol. 1 (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 2023)

2022

‘Sprzeciw sumienia wobec świadczeń na rzecz obrony’ [Conscientious objection to national defence services] (2022) 3 Przegląd Sądowy 35

‘Cofnięcie misji kanonicznej a trwałość stosunku pracy nauczyciela religii’ [Impact of the revocation of the canonical mission on the continuity of the employment of a religious teacher] in Krzysztof Rączka, Barbara Godlewska-Bujok, Eliza Maniewska, Wojciech Ostaszewski, Michał Raczkowski, Aleksandra Ziętek-Capiga (eds), Między ideowością a pragmatyzmem – tworzenie, wykładnia i stosowanie prawa. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor Małgorzacie Gersdorf (Wolters Kluwer Polska 2022)

‘Powrót deliberacji? O koncepcji demokracji otwartej Hélène Landemore’ [The return of deliberation? On the concept of open democracy by Hélène Landemore] in Jarosław Kuisz, Anna Rosner (eds), Prawo i kultura. Księga dedykowana Profesorowi Markowi Wąsowiczowi (Scholar 2022)

‘O możliwych pożytkach płynących z powołania w Polsce urzędu wiceprezydenta’ [On the potential benefits of establishing Vice Presidency in Poland] in Radosław Grabowski (ed), XXV lat Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana Profesor Halinie Ziębie-Załuckiej z okazji 70. rocznicy urodzin (Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek 2022)

2021

Prawa człowieka [Human rights: a handbook] (3rd edn, Wolters Kluwer Polska 2021) [co-authored by Adam Krzywoń and Marcin Wiącek]

‘The Midwife’s Tale: Conscientious Objection to Abortion after Grimmark and Steen’ (2021) 10 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 298

‘Did Pastafarians Lose in Strasbourg, After All?’ (2021) 10 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 487

‘C’è del marcio in Polonia? Il significato autentico della sentenza costituzionale 7 ottobre 2021’ (2021) 41 Quaderni Costituzionali 971

‘Whatever works: constitutional interpretation in Poland in times of populism’ in Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Zoltán Szente (eds), Populist Challenges to Constitutional Interpretation in Europe and Beyond (Routledge 2021)

‘A silent revolution: how Islamic religious law is paving its way to the European legal orders’ in Martin Belov (ed), Peace, Discontent and Constitutional Law: Challenges to Constitutional Order and Democracy (Routledge 2021)

2020

‘Polonia: la libertad religiosa en tiempos de la pandemia del Covid-19’ (2020) 54 Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado 1

‘Papageorgiou and Others v Greece: Exemption from a Mandatory Course in Religion and the Art of Reading between the Lines’ (2020) 22 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 355

‘Szariat w Europie? Glosa do wyroku Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka z 19.12.2018 r., Molla Sali v. Grecja’ [Sharia in Europe? Comment on the case of Molla Sali v Greece, ECtHR, 19 December 2018] (2020) 4 Państwo i Prawo 146

Research grants

● ‘The Greek model of religious education and its evolution in recent years’; funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA); Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; 17–23 October 2022

● ‘Freedom of religion or belief in the Orthodox-majority countries before the European Court of Human Rights’; Advanced Academia Fellowship for International Scholars, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria (https://cas.bg/en/profile/wojciech-brzozowski); 1 March – 31 May 2022

● ‘Understanding Conscientious Objection’; Junior Fellowship at the Centro Dipartimentale BiLap, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 1 October – 15 December 2021

● ‘EXCEPTIUS: Exceptional powers in times of SARS-CoV-2’; sponsored by the Dutch Organization for Health Development and Research (ZonMw, project no: 10430032010026); Co-leader of the Polish team (https://exceptius.com/partners/project-partners); 7 September 2020 – 6 September 2022

Research interests

Law and Religion / prawo wyznaniowe

Constitutional Law / prawo konstytucyjne

Comparative Constitutional Law / prawo konstytucyjne porównawcze

International Human Rights Law / międzynarodowe prawo praw człowieka

Teaching schedule

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