prof. dr hab.
Tomasz Giaro
giaro@uw.edu.pl
Professor of legal sciences, professor at the Department of Roman and Ancient Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, and head of the Centre for Transnational Law. A student of Henryk Kupiszewski and Max Kaser. He graduated in law, obtained his doctorate, and then habilitated at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, where he has been employed since 1972 and served as dean from 2016 to 2024.
From 1984 to 1985, he was a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Bonn. From 1990 to 2006, he was employed at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte) in Frankfurt am Main. He also worked at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin), the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) and the University of Silesia in Katowice.
In 2011, he was awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the field of humanities and social sciences for his ‘interdisciplinary analysis of the category of truth in legal doctrines from antiquity to the present day, opening up new perspectives on the understanding of law as one of the foundations of European civilisation’ in connection with his monograph: T. Giaro, Römische Rechtswahrheiten. Ein Gedankenexperiment, Frankfurt am Main 2007, Vittorio Klostermann, p. XII + 767.
He specialises in Roman law, comparative law, European legal history, and legal theory and philosophy.
dr hab. prof. ucz.
Jan Rudnicki
j.rudnicki@wpia.uw.edu.pl
Doctor habilitated, associate professor, since 2020 Head of the Chair of European Legal Tradition at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. Expert of the Polish Accreditation Committee and collaborator of a renowned law firm. His research focuses on legal traditions, comparative law, Roman law, and private law, with particular interest in the history of the sources of private law. He is the author of the monograph “Dekodyfikacja prawa cywilnego w Polsce” (2018) and several dozen other scholarly publications. He has participated in numerous academic conferences and has been a visiting lecturer at, among others, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Masaryk University, the University of Pretoria, and the University of Lisbon. He has served as a researcher in projects funded under the Polish Ministry of Education and Science’s “Dialogue” and “Science for Society” programs, and is a recipient of the MINIATURA grant awarded by the National Science Centre (NCN).
dr
Witold Borysiak
w.borysiak@wpia.uw.edu.pl
Assistant professor at the Department of European Legal Tradition of the Faculty of Law and Administration (University of Warsaw). He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Warsaw where he then obtained a PhD in law. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Warsaw Centre for English and European Legal Studies in association with Cambridge University (Diploma of Higher Education in an Introduction to English Law and the Law of the European Union). He does research on and teaches civil law (law of successions, family law and obligations), Roman law and European legal tradition, medical law, comparative tort law and succession law. He received many awards and scholarships, including the scholarship granted by the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg, post-doc SCIEX Scholarship of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) at the University of Geneva Faculty of Law, the scholarship START granted by the Foundation for Polish Science (twice) and the scholarship for outstanding young scientists granted by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. His monograph on the “Legal construction and the protection of inheritance” (LexisNexis, 2013) won the first award in the category of PhD Dissertations in XLVIII “Państwo i Prawo” Contest for the best Doctoral and Habilitation Dissertations in Legal Sciences. He was a visiting scholar at many scientific Institutes and universities worldwide, including Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne (Switzerland), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg (Germany), Institute for European Tort Law, Vienna (Austria)
Dr. iur.
Aleksander Grebieniow
a.grebieniow@wpia.uw.edu.pl
Doctor iuris (Fribourg), assistant professor at the Department of Roman and Ancient Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. He graduated in law from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and obtained his doctorate in comparative law in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2015. From 2012 to 2015, he was a research assistant at the University of Bern. Since 2016, he has been working at the University of Warsaw, as well as in the Office of Studies and Analyses of the Supreme Court. He has conducted scientific work, among others, as a winner of the SONATA 12 competition and a co-investigatorr in aMAESTRO and OPUS research projects. He is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Higher Education and Science for outstanding young scientists. His research interests lie in private law, viewed historically and comparatively. In addition to Roman law and the Roman tradition, he publishes on civil law (property, obligations andsuccessions), comparative law and transnational law. Since 2024, he has been the head of the Swiss Law Centre at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsa