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Inside the Polish constitutional crisis

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Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, The University of Sydney


The webinar will focus on the last development of the rule of law crisis in Poland, namely the decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal of 7th October 2021 (case K 3/21), and discuss its implications for EU membership and, more broadly, for the EU political project. 

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Wojiciech Sadurski is Challis Professor in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney. He also holds a position of Professor in the Centre for Europe in the University of Warsaw, and was visiting professor at the University of Trento (Italy), Cardozo Law School (New York), and Yale Law School. In 2013/2014 he was Straus Fellow and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School.

He was Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law in the Department of Law, European University Institute in Florence (1999-2009), and served as head of department of Law at the EUI in 2003-2006. He also taught as visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe, Asia and the United States.

He has written extensively on philosophy of law, political philosophy and comparative constitutional law. His most recent publications focus on the rule of law backsliding in Poland and include Poland's Constitutional Breakdown (OUP 2019).

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (elected in 1990), Wojciech Sadurski is member of a number of supervisory or program boards, including the Institute of Public Affairs (Poland), Freedom of Press Observatory (Poland) and the Centre for International Affairs (Poland), and also of editorial boards, including the European Law Journal, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and Law and Philosophy Library (Springer Scientific). Since 2011, Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the Community of Democracies. In 2013, he initiated and has been leading the Myanmar Constitutional Reform Project.