Anna Wójcik
I am the Principal Investigator of a research project on EU media regulation and media freedom in Member States, funded by the SONATINA research grant from the National Science Centre, Poland (2024-2027). I am based at the Constitutional Law Department of Kozminski University in Warsaw.
I am a co-founder and editor of rule of law monitoring program The Wiktor Osiatyński Archive and the Rule of Law in Poland.
In addition to my research, I teach the “Fundamentals of Human Rights” course at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany.
Moreover, I analyse and comment on the rule of law in Europe, with a special focus on Poland, for media outlets and think tanks. I am currently a visiting fellow in the Engaging Central Europe Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
I hold a Doctor of Laws degree from the Polish Academy of Sciences (2021). In 2023-24 I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in Heidelberg, sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
My specialization is in constitutional and human rights law, with a focus on evaluating the rule of law and human rights in Central and Eastern Europe against EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. I am also interested in how the EU and the Council of Europe address systemic deficiencies in the rule of law in states that are party to these organizations.
My expertise extends to freedom of expression and its limitations under European law, particularly regarding memory laws—an area I explored in my doctoral dissertation funded by the Humanities in European Research Area (HERA).
In the past, I have led and secured funding for multiple initiatives aimed at promoting the rule of law and safeguarding media freedom in Central Europe.
Since September 2024, I am a founding member of Young Network TransEurope (YNT) established by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW).
Address: Warsaw, Poland
I am a co-founder and editor of rule of law monitoring program The Wiktor Osiatyński Archive and the Rule of Law in Poland.
In addition to my research, I teach the “Fundamentals of Human Rights” course at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany.
Moreover, I analyse and comment on the rule of law in Europe, with a special focus on Poland, for media outlets and think tanks. I am currently a visiting fellow in the Engaging Central Europe Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
I hold a Doctor of Laws degree from the Polish Academy of Sciences (2021). In 2023-24 I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in Heidelberg, sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
My specialization is in constitutional and human rights law, with a focus on evaluating the rule of law and human rights in Central and Eastern Europe against EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. I am also interested in how the EU and the Council of Europe address systemic deficiencies in the rule of law in states that are party to these organizations.
My expertise extends to freedom of expression and its limitations under European law, particularly regarding memory laws—an area I explored in my doctoral dissertation funded by the Humanities in European Research Area (HERA).
In the past, I have led and secured funding for multiple initiatives aimed at promoting the rule of law and safeguarding media freedom in Central Europe.
Since September 2024, I am a founding member of Young Network TransEurope (YNT) established by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW).
Address: Warsaw, Poland
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This policy brief discusses the contemporary practice of mass street re-naming as a matter of constitutional debate related to the subsidiarity of government, democratic participation, political pluralism, minority rights, and freedom of speech. It offers general policy recommendations and legal suggestions for best practices to address the aforementioned concerns. The first part provides a brief overview of mass street re-naming as a phenomenon occurring across Europe today. In the second part, it scrutinizes a recent Polish law on street de-communization, which took effect in 2017. The section presents an overview of the mechanisms adopted with the Law, and the rationale behind the legislation. Furthermore, the policy brief discusses controversies, which have arisen from the implementation of the 2017 Polish Law. In the third part, based on the research of the authors in the area of memory laws, the brief offers ten policy recommendations. The fourth part provides of a summary of good practices for mitigating any negative effects of laws requiring a mass re-naming of streets; followed by a conclusion in the final, fifth part.
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Trybunał wypowiedział się w kwestii naruszenia prawa do ochrony życia prywatnego poprzez upublicznienie informacji o zatrudnieniu skarżącego jako kierowcy w Komitecie Bezpieczeństwa Państwowego przy Radzie Ministrów ZSRR (KGB).
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Case note to European Court of Human Rights Judgment of 3 September 2015 in case Soro versus Estonia (application no.22588/08).
The Court pronounced on right to private life in a case concerning publication of sensitive data about individual's employment in KGB.
The article is published in "Palestra. Pismo Adwokatury Polskiej", an official journal of attorneys at law of the Republic of Poland, published since 1924.
This policy brief discusses the contemporary practice of mass street re-naming as a matter of constitutional debate related to the subsidiarity of government, democratic participation, political pluralism, minority rights, and freedom of speech. It offers general policy recommendations and legal suggestions for best practices to address the aforementioned concerns. The first part provides a brief overview of mass street re-naming as a phenomenon occurring across Europe today. In the second part, it scrutinizes a recent Polish law on street de-communization, which took effect in 2017. The section presents an overview of the mechanisms adopted with the Law, and the rationale behind the legislation. Furthermore, the policy brief discusses controversies, which have arisen from the implementation of the 2017 Polish Law. In the third part, based on the research of the authors in the area of memory laws, the brief offers ten policy recommendations. The fourth part provides of a summary of good practices for mitigating any negative effects of laws requiring a mass re-naming of streets; followed by a conclusion in the final, fifth part.
Trybunał wypowiedział się w kwestii naruszenia prawa do ochrony życia prywatnego poprzez upublicznienie informacji o zatrudnieniu skarżącego jako kierowcy w Komitecie Bezpieczeństwa Państwowego przy Radzie Ministrów ZSRR (KGB).
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Case note to European Court of Human Rights Judgment of 3 September 2015 in case Soro versus Estonia (application no.22588/08).
The Court pronounced on right to private life in a case concerning publication of sensitive data about individual's employment in KGB.
The article is published in "Palestra. Pismo Adwokatury Polskiej", an official journal of attorneys at law of the Republic of Poland, published since 1924.