Academic career

Academic Career

• 1989 – Defense of master's thesis: "The Institution of Referendum in the Contemporary World." Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia.
• 1996 – Defense of doctoral dissertation: "The European Court of Human Rights." Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia.
• 2002–2005 – Member of the Senate of the University of Silesia.
• 2009 – Habilitation colloquium. Habilitation dissertation: "The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Legal Order of the United Kingdom."
• 2009 – Professor at the Wojciech Korfanty Upper Silesian Academy in Katowice.
• 2011–2012 – Professor at the University of Silesia.
• 2013–2014 – Vice-Rector of the Wojciech Korfanty Upper Silesian Academy in Katowice.
• 2014 – Professor at the University of Zielona Góra.
• 2015 – Head of the Department of Law and Administration, Faculty of Management, Wojciech Korfanty Upper Silesian School of Commerce in Katowice.
• 2018 – Head of the Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Zielona Góra.
• 2018 – Member of the Senate of the University of Zielona Góra.
• 2018 – Honorary Professor at the Kunayev Eurasian Law Academy in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• 2018 – Curator of the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Zielona Góra.
• 2019 – Honorary Professor at the International Humanitarian and Technical University in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
• 2019 – Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of the Academy of Renewable Technologies and Law in Lutsk, Ukraine.
• 2019 – Director of the Institute of Legal Sciences – Chair of the Discipline Council for Legal Sciences, University of Zielona Góra.
• 2019 – Head of the Department of Constitutional, European, and International Public Law, Institute of Legal Sciences, University of Zielona Góra.
• 2020–2024 – Chair of the Electoral College of the University of Zielona Góra.
• 2020 – Member of the Publishing Council of the University of Zielona Góra Publishing House.
• 2021 – Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of King Danylo University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
• 2022 – Expert of the Science Evaluation Commission, Ministry of Education and Science.
• 2022 – Member of the Team for the Development of the Education System and the System of Higher Education and Science, Ministry of Education and Science.
• 2022 – Member of the Team for Developing Regulations for Doctoral and Habilitation Procedures at the University of Zielona Góra.
• 2024 – Member of the Advisory Team for evaluating applications for Minister of Science scholarships for students and outstanding young researchers.
• 2024 – Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of Kunayev University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• 2024 – Dean of the Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences at the University of Zielona Góra.
• 2025 – Member of the Examination Commission for legal counsel applications at the Ministry of Justice, based in Zielona Góra.
• 2025 - Chairman of the Regional Committee (Lubusz Voivodship) on Knowledge Olimpiad of Security and Defense.
• 2025 - Team Member on Legal Regulation of Tourist Promotion at Minister of Sport and Tourism, and Council of Tourism.

Scholarships

• 1992 – Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands.
• 1992 – Poznań Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
• 1998 – British Council, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.
• 1998 – Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria.

Research Fellowships

• 2013 – S. Toraygyrov Pavlodar State University, Pavlodar, Republic of Kazakhstan. Lectures: Constitutional systems of selected EU member states; fundamental principles of constitutions; human rights and their guarantees in European law.
• 2014 – Zhansugurov Zhetysu State University, Taldykorgan, Republic of Kazakhstan. Lectures: Comparative constitutional law; law of the institutions of the Council of Europe and the European Union.
• 2016 – Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Faculty of Law, Administration, and Management. Lectures: Axiology of the constitutional system of the Republic of Poland; Constitutional aspects of local government.
• 2016 – SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Faculty of Law. Lectures: The constitutional system of the Republic of Kazakhstan; constitutional status of agricultural holdings in Poland.
• 2025 - Kunaev University, Faculty of Law. Lectures; Polish and European law of the territorial self -government; parliamentary law.

Visiting Professor

• 2013 – Visiting Professor, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of State and Law, Modra-Harmónia, Bratislava. Lectures: Legal interpretation in the case law of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal; interpretative rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal; judicial activism of the Constitutional Tribunal.
• 2018 – Visiting Professor, Kunayev Eurasian Law Academy, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Lectures: The impact of European law on the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland; theoretical and doctrinal foundations of local government in Europe.
• 2019 – Visiting Professor, Academic Council of the Academy of Renewable Technologies and Law, Lutsk, Ukraine. Lectures: The concept of the fundamental principle of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland; the Polish model of local government.
• 2019 – Visiting Professor, Institute of National Law, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine. Lecture: Axiology of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
• 2025 - Visiting Professor, Kunaev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Lectures: The legal status of the territtorial self-government in the democratic state of law; relations between legislature and executive in Poland and Kazakhstan.