ZbigniewBanaszczyk

Ever since graduating with a degree in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw (1975), he has been an academic staff member thereof, employed in successive research and teaching positions, and since 2021 as a university professor; a member of the Interdyscyplinarna Pracownia Prawa Karnego, Medycznego i Farmaceutycznego operating at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, as well as a co-organiser of the Legal Clinic (Klinika Prawa) – an educational form that was innovative at the national and international level at the time of its establishment (in 1998) – whose civil law section he has headed to date. He has supervised over 100 master's degree students, served as a supervisor in two doctoral proceedings, and acted as a reviewer in four doctoral and two habilitation proceedings.

Furthermore, beyond his employment at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw: in 1978 he completed his judicial traineeship (aplikacja sądowa) and passed the judicial examination; in 1985 he completed his advocate traineeship (aplikacja adwokacka) and passed the bar examination; since 1986 he has been a practising advocate; he is also an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw (Sąd Arbitrażowy przy Krajowej Izbie Gospodarczej w Warszawie). 

Academic degrees and titles held:

- Doctor (doktor) in the field of legal sciences; awarded in 1984 on the basis of the doctoral dissertation: „Zgoda poszkodowanego jako okoliczność wyłączająca bezprawność” [Consent of the Injured Party as a Circumstance Precluding Wrongfulness];

- Habilitated doctor (doktor habilitowany) in the field of legal sciences; awarded in 2013 on the basis of the habilitation dissertation: „Odpowiedzialność za szkody wyrządzone przy wykonywaniu władzy publicznej” [Liability for Damage Caused in the Exercise of Public Authority], 1st edition, C.H. Beck 2012. 

Brief description of scientific achievements (legal sciences):

Since the beginning of his employment, he has focused his academic activity on issues related to civil law; following the conferment of his doctoral degree – on issues concerning civil liability, and in the period following the conferment of his habilitated doctor degree, also in the area of medical law; at the same time, his academic activity has encompassed the subject of commercial arbitration, in which he combines his research work with his practice as an arbitrator in permanent courts of arbitration. He is the author and co-author of several dozen academic publications in the field of civil law.