He holds an MA in Law and is a PhD candidate in Legal Sciences at the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences of the Jagiellonian University. He works as an Academic Assistant at the Chair of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration and is a member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies. He has participated as a researcher and coordinator in scientific as well as research and teaching projects, including two projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre: “Human Rights Protection in States of Emergency. Theory and Practice of the Visegrad Group Countries” and “Theory of the Interpretation of Polish Constitution of 1997”. His main research interests include bicameral parliaments and parliamentary second chambers, as well as the constitutional law of common law countries.
Project Collaborators - Project Future Generations
Project Collaborators

Jan Adamowski

Rafał S. Kowalski
Third-year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. He is a member of the Constitutional Law Student Research Group of the Society of the Law Students’ Library of the Jagiellonian University (TBSP UJ). His first research experience involved working on a project organized by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies of JU (CICS JU) called the "Young Researchers Academy CICS JU". The result of this work was a chapter in a book about amendments to European constitutions. His research interests mainly concern the constitutional law of German-speaking countries, sources of law, constitutional courts, and militant democracy.

Oliwia Kreft

Natalia Moskwa
She is a second-year law student and a first-year student of Latin American Studies at the Jagiellonian University. She serves as a member of the Board of the Kraków Association of Speakers (Krakowskie Stowarzyszenie Mówców). She gained researching experience in the international research project “Modern Technologies in Community Policing (TechCop)”, funded by the Future Law Lab and carried out at the Jagiellonian University. Her main areas of interest incude constitutional aspects of criminal law, human rights, criminology and constitutional law.

Anna Niemiec
Fourth-year law student at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Participant in a seminar at the Chair of Constitutional Law at the Jagiellonian University. Active member of the Constitutional Law Student Research Group of the Legal Listening Society (TBSP UJ). Vice-Chair of the Faculty Student Government Council at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, as well as Vice-President for Organizational Affairs of the Legal Listening Society (Towarzystwo Biblioteki Słuchaczów Prawa). Her academic interests focus primarily on the structure of the judiciary in Poland, International law and European Union law. As part of the Erasmus+ programme, she is currently undertaking an international exchange at the University of Ljubljana (Univerza v Ljubljani).

Kacper Nowina-Konopka
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University (2024), lawyer in Constitutional, International and European Law Team in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland. He defended his master's thesis entitled "Dilemmas of the common courts in the face of the appearance of the possibility of imposing the irreducible life sentence in the legal system in accordance with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights" under the supervision of prof. Monika Florczak- Wątor. He has presented papers at national and international scientific conferences. He is the author of academic publications concerning contitutionalism and electoral law. He was involved in scientific activities in the Faculty of Law and Administration of JU as vice-president (2023/24) and president (2023/24) of the Constitutional Law Society. His research interests include: freedom of expression, right to access public information, electoral law, populism and "illiberal constitutionalism".

Szymon Załęski
He is a third-year law student at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University (2023–present). He is a participant in a criminal law proseminar at the Chair of Criminal Law and in a tutoring programme under the supervision of Professor Monika Florczak-Wątor. He gained his research experience as part of the project “Krakow Constitutional Seminars: Rebuilding the Constitutional Order in Poland (…).” conducted at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies (JU). His academic interests include human rights, theories of justice, the philosophy of criminal law, as well as the social perception of law and the impact of social processes on legal development and interpretation.