Spring Holiday Wishes
April 16, 2025
Ladies and Gentlemen,
on behalf of the Poznan Center for Human Rights of the INP PAN, the Tadeusz Mazowiecki Department of the UW and the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the UW, we invite you to an open lecture by Prof. Samuel Issacharoff entitled Can the Past Be Undone? The Challenge of Compromised Democratic Institutions, which will be held on May 7 at 4:30 pm in the prof. Jan Baszkiewicz Auditorium.
The lecture will be accompanied by a commentary by Minister of Justice dr hab. Adam Bodnar and a panel discussion by prominent constitutionalists prof. Angelika Nussberger, prof. Miroslaw Wyrzykowski and prof. Yen-Tu Su.
Registration is open until May 5 at phrc@inp.pan.pl
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Panelists Biograms:
Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. His research addresses the law of the political process and constitutional law, as well as issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions). He is the author of Democracy Unmoored (2023) and Fragile Democracies (2015), as well as hundreds of articles and other monographs, and he is a co-author of the seminal Law of Democracy casebook. He is also a frequent advocate before appellate courts in the U.S., including the United States Supreme Court. He serves as a Council member of the American Law Institute and was its Reporter for the Project on Aggregat Litigation. Professor Issacharo is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Adam Bodnar is Professor of law at SWPS University, from 2023 Senator of the Republic of Poland of the 11th term and Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland, from 2021 to 2023 Dean of the Faculty of Law at SWPS University, visiting professor at the University of Cologne (Academy for European Human Rights Protection). Polish Ombudsman of the seventh term (09.2015 – 07.2021); associate of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights from 2004 to 2015. Member of advisory boards of national and international organizations, recipient of national and international awards for merits in the protection of the rule of law and human rights.
Angelika Nussberger is Professor of international law, public law and comparative law at the University of Cologne and founder and director of the Academy for the European Protection of Human Rights. Vice president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Member of the Institut de Droit International. From January 2011 to December 2019, she was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights. From 2021 to 2024, she directed the scientic project “Memocracy”, dedicated to the issue of memory laws and politics in Central and Eastern Europe. She studied law and literature (German, Russian and French). Member of the Council of Europe’s European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).
Miroslaw Wyrzykowski had been Professor of law at the University of Warsaw since 1992. 1990 – 1998 head of the Constitutional Law Team at the O ce of the Ombudsman. 1999 – 2001 Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. 2001-2010 Judge of the Constitutional Tribunal. 2011 -2015 Chairman of the Committee on Law Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Council of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Public A airs Foundation. Member and Vice-Chairman of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (2012-2017). Author of dozens of studies on administrative, constitutional and human rights law.
Yen-Tu Su is Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica (IIAS) in Taiwan. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Empirical Legal Studies at IIAS. His research interests include the law of democracy, democratic theory, constitutional theory, judicial behavior, and comparative constitutional law. A member of the Taiwan Study Group on National Security, Democratic Resilience and Law, Su received his S.J.D. from Harvard University in 2010.
Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Professor of international human rights law at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. She specialises in constitutional law, freedom of speech, legal governance over memory. Co-editor and co-author of Constitutionalism under Stress (OUP, 2020). She held numerous fellowships, including at the University of Cambridge, Yale University and the European University Institute. Principal Investigator in numerous research projects, including ‘Rethinking Militant Democracy Doctrine’, funded by the Polish National Science Centre (2024-2027). In July 2024 she has been appointed the Head of Advisory Council to the Polish Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General on counteracting hate crimes and hate speech.
