| Professional Background | 1976-1982 Voluntary probation officer
1980-1990 Expert of the NSZZ Solidarność Citizen Legislation Programme
1982 to date Human rights defender
1987-1989 Expert at the United Nations Crime Prevention Branch, Vienna
1989 to date Lecturer in human rights for human rights defenders, different professions groups (judges, public prosecutors, prison officers, police officers, teachers) in Poland, Commonwealth of Independent States countries, Baltic States, Balkan region States — working on behalf of main human rights groups (International Helsinki Federation, Moscow, Helsinki Group, International Commission of Jurists, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights), and for the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe. An organizer of 17 monitoring missions in those regions on: freedom to fair trial, right to education, freedom from inhuman treatment in penal and psychiatric facilities
1989 to date Expert of parliamentary committees, Poland
1990-1991 Adviser on human rights of the Director of Prison Administration
1992-1995 Constitutional Expert of the Office of the President of Poland
1993-1994, 1999 Expert of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Warsaw
1994 Legal adviser to the Polish delegation at the fiftieth session of the Commission on Human Rights, Geneva
1991 to date Expert of the Directorate of Legal Affairs, Council of Europe, Strasbourg (reform of the judiciary)
1992 to date Polish Bar, membership
1997 to date Expert of the Council of Europe Department of Monitoring (a member of a group of experts of the Secretary General on freedom of expression)
1999 to date Member of the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics
2001 to date Legal adviser to the President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw |
| Educational Background | 1971 Graduated from the Law Faculty, Warsaw University
1978 Doctorate from the Institute of State and Law, Polish Academy of Sciences: "Families of Long Term Prisoners, Study at The Social Costs of Crime and Punishment"
1990 Habilitation from the Law Faculty, Warsaw University: "The Judiciary in Communist Poland"
1978 Secondment from the University of Montreal International Centre of Comparative Criminology
1987-1988 Secondment from the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Rome
1990 European University Institute in Florence: summer school on human rights and European law |
| Current occupation | Professor of Law, Dean of the Faculty of Social Applied Sciences and Resocialization, Warsaw University, Poland, and head of the Centre of Human Rights Studies at the Faculty
Member of the Executive Committee of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Vienna
Member of the Board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw |