Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights
List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Poland
Communication
| Doc. 15424
| 16 December 2021
- Author(s):
- Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly
1 Letter
from Mr Zbigniew Rau, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic
of Poland, to Ms Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General
of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 6 December 2021
Acting on the basis of Article 22 of the European Convention
on Human Rights, I have the honour to submit a list of three candidates
for the post of judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect
of Poland (in alphabetical order):
- Ms Elżbieta Karska
- Mr Aleksander Stępkowski
- Ms Agnieszka Szklanna
As requested per your letter dated 20 April 2021, attached
hereby are the curricula vitae of the candidates in both English
and French, prepared in accordance with the model adopted by the
Parliamentary Assembly, as well as detailed information on the national
procedure by which the candidates were selected.
I would also like to confirm that the Advisory Panel of Experts
on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human
Rights was consulted on 29 October 2021 as envisaged by the Committee
of Ministers' Resolution No. CM/Res(2010)26 of 10 November 2010.
At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic
of Poland remains at your disposal should the Parliamentary Assembly
have any questions concerning the above candidates or the selection
procedure applied.
2 Information
on the national selection procedure applied in Poland to designate
three candidates for the post of Judge of the European Court of
Human Rights
The procedure, by which three candidates were selected, was
conducted on the basis of Ordinance No. 1 of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of 13 January 2012 on the establishment of the Committee
responsible for the selection of candidates for the post of Judge
at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, as amended
in 2020 and 2021 (hereinafter referred to as the “Ordinance”).
The composition of the Selection Committee was significantly
changed as compared to the procedure conducted in 2020 and a possibility
was introduced for non-governmental organisations, including legal professions,
to appoint observers of interviews with candidates.
2.1 The
Selection Committee
The Committee responsible for the selection of candidates
for the post of Judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
(hereinafter referred to as the “Selection Committee”) was appointed
by Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice, Head of the Prime Minister’s
Chancellery and President of the General Counsel to the Republic
of Poland. It was composed of:
1 Mr Piotr
Wawrzyk, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible
for legal and treaty affairs, habilitated doctor of social sciences,
lawyer, assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies
at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Journalism and Political
Science, graduate of the Institute of Political Science and Faculty
of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, former employee
of the Bureau of Sejm Committees of the Sejm Chancellery and of the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development, collaborator of the Office
of the Committee for European Integration, participated in Poland-EU
accession negotiations and in works to align the Polish law with
the EU acquis, author of many
publications – the Committee’s chairperson;
2 Mr Paweł Sobczyk, habilitated doctor of legal sciences,
professor and dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the
University of Opole, head of the Department of State and Law Studies and Coordinator
of the Fundamental Rights Research Centre of the University of Opole,
member of several scientific societies, scientific and editorial
committees, specialised in constitutional law, human rights, religious
law, axiology of law, lecturer in human rights and constitutional
law, author of over 100 scientific publications and over 30 expert
opinions;
3 Mr Przemysław Saganek, habilitated doctor of legal sciences,
professor and head of the Department of Public International Law
at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialised
in public international law, author of numerous publications;
4 Mr Krzysztof Szczucki, habilitated doctor of legal sciences,
President of the Government Legislative Centre, assistant professor
at the Department of Comparative Criminal Law at the Faculty of
Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, former head
of the Centre for the Promotion of Polish Legal Studies at the University
of Warsaw, expert for legislation in the Chancellery of the Polish
Sejm, former employee of the Polish Ombudsman’s Office, specialised
in criminal and constitutional law, bioethics and law philosophy;
5 Ms Izabela Hasińska, doctor of law, field Plenipotentiary
of the Ombudsman for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs in Poznań, assistant
professor and lecturer in the Department of Law and Organization of
Enterprises in Agribusiness at Poznań University of Life Sciences,
an attorney, previously a long-time employee of the justice system
(Civil Division of the Regional Court in Poznań and Commercial Division of
the District Court in Poznań), specialised in business law, commercial
law, civil law and proceedings, protection of intellectual property,
author of numerous publications;
6 Ms Agnieszka Gracz, representative of the Foundation “Centre
for Supporting Initiatives for Life and Family” (non-governmental
organisation), graduate of political science and expert on social
policy, including its international dimension, also specialised
in issues related to the right of peoples to self-determination,
as well as human and civil rights in the context of war, authoritarianism
and political transformation (notably in relation to the wars in
Chechnya and the transformation in Russia), former journalist and
collaborator of book publishers, has experience in voluntary work
for people in need and in the public administration;
7 Mr Jan Sobczak, Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs for proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights
(Government Agent) – a secretary to the Committee without the right
to vote.
In sum, apart from highly qualified representatives of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (which is the ministry responsible for
the representation before the European Court of Human Rights) who acted
as a chairman and a secretary without the right to vote, respectively,
the Selection Committee comprised several recognised representatives
of academic and scientific circles (i.e. professors
and lecturers specialised in public international law, constitutional
law and human rights, criminal or civil law and legislative matters),
as well as representatives of a non-governmental organisation and
an institution advocating individual rights. The Selection Committee
thus relied not only on the legal knowledge of the majority of its
members but also on the practical experience related to the advocacy
for rights and engagement in a civil society organisation.
2.2 Advertisement
to announce the vacancy
On 6 August 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs published
an announcement, specifying the formal and substantive requirements
to be met by the candidates, in three daily newspapers of a nationwide
coverage, including Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (meaning
Daily Legal Newspaper) and Rzeczpospolita (a newspaper publishing
a legal supplement), thus two leading daily newspapers for lawyers
in Poland. A four-week deadline was fixed for submitting applications
(expiring on 7 September 2021). The announcement was also placed
on the MFA’s website. At the same time, the Deputy Foreign Minister
also sent a letter to 130 institutions asking them to disseminate
the announcement further. In addition to the relevant governmental
authorities and the Chancelleries of the President, Sejm and Senate
of the Republic of Poland, this request was addressed to three ombudsmen
functioning in Poland (i.e. the
Commissioner for Human Rights, Children’s Rights Ombudsman, Patient’s
Rights Ombudsman), the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court,
the Supreme Administrative Court and the National Council of the
Judiciary, the presidents of all courts of appeal and all voivodeship
administrative courts, the presidents of the relevant legal professions:
the Polish Bar Council, National Bar Council of Attorneys-at-Law
and the National Council of Court Bailiffs, the chairpersons of the human
rights commissions of advocates and attorneys-at-law, deans of the
faculties of law of 18 universities throughout the country, the Polish
Academy of Sciences, several non-governmental organisations (namely
those that co-operate on a permanent basis with the interministerial
Committee for matters of the European Court of Human Rights) and to 16 regional
centres for international debate.
2.3 Applicants
In total, 19 persons submitted their candidatures before the
expiry of the time-limit. Prior to the examination of the candidates’
applications, the members of the Selection Committee were required
to declare a potential conflict of interests between them and any
of the candidates. Five applying persons were requested by the Selection
Committee to remove formal shortcomings of their applications. There
was no shortlisting and all applicants were invited for interviews
held at the second meeting of the Selection Committee. Three persons had
withdrawn their candidatures shortly before that meeting.
2.4 Interviews and observers
All interviews were held according to the same rules fixed
by the Selection Committee at the first meeting. Those rules were
announced to all candidates in advance and were published on-line
on the ministry’s website. The interviews were conducted in principle
in alphabetical order (with some exceptions made upon justified
motions of the candidates) and the time afforded to each candidate
was identical (30 minutes). At the beginning, all candidates were
given an opportunity to present their candidatures as well as to
share their vision of the role of judge and that of the Convention
and the Court. Subsequently, all candidates received the same set
of five questions. The questions were proposed by the members of
the Selection Committee who also decided on the final list of questions
at the second meeting. One of the questions was posed in English,
and one in French, the candidates having the right to reply in the
official language of the Court of their choice.
All interviews were observed by observers appointed by non-governmental
organisations, including legal professions (more information – see
below section “Transparency”).
2.5 Evaluation and selection of candidates
Following the interviews and deliberations, the Selection
Committee decided by agreement on the list of three candidates.
According to the Ordinance, the Selection Committee members should
assess the candidates taking into account the requirements of holding
the office of judge at the European Court of Human Rights as set
out in Article 21(1) of the Convention, as well as: 1) knowledge
of issues related to the protection of human rights; 2) extensive
knowledge of the law, in particular Polish law, and experience in
its practical application; 3) the candidate’s academic achievements.
The Ordinance also requires that the list of three successful candidates
should include at least one representative of each sex (unless in
view of exceptional circumstances it would not be possible).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs took additional effort to
make the members of the Selection Committee aware of all standards
and criteria applied by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe and by the Advisory Panel of Experts in their assessment
of candidates for the post of judge. Notably, the Memorandum of
the Parliamentary Assembly on the “Procedure for the election of
judges to the European Court of Human Rights” and the Advisory Panel’s
publication called “A short guide on the Panel’s role and the minimum qualifications
required of a candidate” were both translated into Polish and made
available to the members. Their attention was drawn to two checklists
applied by the Parliamentary Assembly members (as annexed to the
aforementioned memorandum). A similar checklist, comprising the
criteria stemming from the Convention, the Committee of Ministers
Guidelines, the Parliamentary Assembly checklists and from the Ordinance
was prepared as an assessment tool for members of the Selection
Committee during the interviews.
2.6 Transparency
Throughout the whole selection process, special care was taken
to ensure its transparency. Not only was the announcement widely
disseminated, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also launched
a dedicated website (https://www.gov.pl/web/dyplomacja/wybor-sedziego-etpc) where it regularly published news on the respective stages
of the selection process, including information on persons appointed
to sit as members of the Selection Committee, detailed information
on both meetings of the Selection Committee, the rules of conducting interviews
with candidates, and – after the interviews – the questions posed
to the candidates. All relevant domestic legal regulations and documents
of the Council of Europe could also be found on that website, including
the aforementioned memorandum of the Parliamentary Assembly and
the Panel’s short guide in PolishNote. All necessary documents
and written forms for the candidates were also made available in
one place to facilitate applying. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs replied to many individual requests for information on the
selection process.
What needs to be particularly emphasised, all non-governmental
organisations whose statutory activity includes activities in the
sphere of promotion and protection of human rights and freedoms
and civil liberties were entitled to appoint (by 7 September 2021)
one observer each to the interviews with candidates. The following
15 non-governmental organisations availed themselves of the possibility
to appoint observers:
- Action
Democracy Foundation (Fundacja Akcja Demokracja)
- Association for Legal Intervention (Stowarzyszenie Interwencji
Prawnej)
- Citizens Network Watchdog Poland (Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog
Polska)
- Federation for Women and Family Planning (Federacja na
rzecz Kobiet i Planowania Rodziny)
- Foundation Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture (Fundacja
Instytut na rzecz Kultury Prawnej Ordo Iuris)
- Frank Bold Foundation (Fundacja Frank Bold)
- Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Helsińska Fundacja
Praw Człowieka)
- Polish Society of Anti-discrimination Law (Polskie Towarzystwo
Prawa Antydyskryminacyjnego)
- Professor Zbigniew Hołda Association (Stowarzyszenie im.
prof. Zbigniewa Hołdy)
among which also were the leading organisations representing
legal professions:
- National
Bar Council (Naczelna Rada Adwokacka)
- National Bar Council of Attorneys-at-Law (Krajowa Izba Radców Prawnych)
- Polish Judges Association "IUSTITIA" (Stowarzyszenie Sędziów
Polskich "IUSTITIA")
- Judges Association “Themis” (Stowarzyszenie Sędziów „Themis”)
- “Defensor Iuris” Bar Association (Stowarzyszenie Adwokackie
“Defensor Iuris”)
- Human Rights Section of the Regional Bar Council in Warsaw
(Sekcja Praw Człowieka przy Okręgowej Radzie Adwokackiej w Warszawie).
All 15 observers were invited to attend the interviews. 12
persons were present on the first day and 9 persons on the second
day.
The observers signed a declaration that they would keep personal
data of the candidates confidential. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
reassured the observers that they could publish any information
they consider relevant in order to comment on the fairness of the
conduct of the interviews or on the organisation of the selection
procedure. It further explained that they could also comment in
general on the quality of the candidates, without however revealing
their personal data. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
invited the observers to submit any critical remarks they may have
to the Ministry for consideration.
Under the Polish legislation, there is no legal provision
limiting the right to respect for private life of candidates for
the post of European Court of Human Rights judge and envisaging
the publication of their personal data. Nevertheless, the applying
persons were asked to state if they agreed to the publication of
their candidature by filling in the relevant form prepared by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In consequence, seven candidates (out of 16
who eventually participated in the interviews) consented and their
data were revealed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to any person
applying for such information. Obviously, the observers had full
access to the information on the names of the candidates during
the interviews and were also informed upon request of the names
of the candidates who had agreed to publicise their candidatures.
The regulations in force in this respect are compatible with
both EU General Data Protection Regulation and the Committee of
Ministers Guidelines which do not contain any recommendation to
publish personal data of all applying persons (cf. paragraphs. V.2-3). The approach
adopted in Poland is similar to that of many other Council of Europe
member States. It is worth recalling here that serious concerns
were expressed in two reports of the Steering Committee for Human
Rights (CDDH) reports about the publication of personal data of
all applying persons. Such a practice was described as a challenge
that could possibly discourage potential applicants and for this
reason was avoided in the Polish regulations.
Appendix 1 – Professor
Elżbieta KARSKA
Curriculum Vitae
I. Personal details
Name, forename: KARSKA, Elżbieta
Sex: female
Date and place of birth: 13 September 1977, Wrocław, Poland
Nationality: Polish
II. Education and
academic and other qualifications
- 2010 – Habilitated Doctor
of Law (Higher Doctorate, Post-Ph.D. Degree) / specialisations:
international law and European law, Faculty of Law, Administration
and Economics, University of Wrocław;
- 2004 – Ph.D. (summa cum laude) / specialisation: international
law; Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of
Wrocław; doctoral dissertation awarded the Prime Minister's Award
– at the request of the Rector of the University of Wrocław (Concurrent and Complementary Jurisdiction between International
Criminal Tribunals and National Courts // Zbieżność a komplementarność jurysdykcji międzynarodowych
trybunałów karnych i sądów krajowych, ‘Acta Universitatis
Wratislaviensis’, Wrocław 2004);
- 2018 – Master of Business Administration (MBA), Faculty
of Management, Warsaw School of Business;
- 2002 – Course on International Humanitarian Law, International
Committee of the Red Cross;
- 2001 – Master in Law, Faculty of Law, Administration and
Economics, University of Wrocław.
III. Relevant professional
activities
a. Description of
judicial activities
- 2018-present
– Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague;
- 2010-2012 and 2018-present
– Judge ad hocof the European Court of Human Rights,
Strasbourg.
b. Description of
non-judicial legal activities
- 2019-present
– Director of the Doctoral School, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
in Warsaw; conducting seminars on human rights protection;
research activity, administrative responsibilities and educational
management of the Doctoral School; co-operation with similar domestic
and foreign academic and research centres;
- 2014-2019 – Director of the Institute of International
Law, European Union and International Relations, Faculty of Law
and Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw;
research activity, administrative responsibilities and educational
management of the Institute; co-operation with similar domestic
and foreign academic and research centres;
- 2010-present – Professor and
Head of the Department of Human Rights Protection and International
Humanitarian Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Cardinal Stefan
Wyszyński University in Warsaw; lecturer on human rights
protection, international criminal law, international humanitarian
law, public international law, European Union law, history of the
law of nations; co-operation with similar
domestic and foreign academic and research centres;
- 2019-present – Adjunct Professor;
Indian Institute of Finance, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR (pro bono);
- 2016 – guest lecturer in human rights at the Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (UNOESC),
Brazil (series of lectures in the campuses of Joaçaba, São Miguel
do Oeste, Xanxerê and Chapecó);
- 2001-2011 – Ph.D. student and subsequently Assistant Professor
at the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of
Law, Economics and Administration, University of Wrocław;
- 2005 – research internship at the Faculty of Law, Ruhr-University
Bochum.
c. Description of
non-legal professional activities
Not applicable
IV. Activities and
experience in the field of human rights
- 2017-present
– Member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
(ECRI), Council of Europe, Strasbourg;
- 2017-present – Member of the
Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
(FRA), Vienna;
- 2017-present – Expert for
the Human Dimension Mechanism, Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights (ODIHR), Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (independent expert enrolled on the list of the ODHIR
‘Moscow Mechanism’);
- 2018-present – UN Independent
Human Rights Expert; Member, and Vice-Chairperson (January-June
2019 and since July 2021),
and Chairperson-Rapporteur (July-December 2019) of the UN Working
Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations
and other business enterprises, UN Human Rights Council (Special
Procedures), Geneva; participation in the drafting and adoption
of annual reports for the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights
Council on the Group's work, focusing in particular on human rights
due diligence, improving accountability and access to remedy for
victims and the activity and protection of human rights defenders;
as part of the Group's work travelled to, among others, Georgia,
with the findings being recorded in detailed reports; as Chairperson-Rapporteur
of the Working Group presided over the 8th
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights: Time to act: Governments
as catalysts for business respect for human rights, held
from 25 to 27 November 2019 in the Palace of Nations in Geneva;
- 2011-2018 – UN Independent Expert on Human Rights; Member
and, from 2014 to 2016, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Working
Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and
impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination,
UN Human Rights Council, Geneva; participation in the drafting and
adoption of annual reports on the Group’s work for the UN General
Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council, focusing in particular
on domestic regulations concerning private military and security
companies, and foreign fighters; as Chairperson-Rapporteur of the
Working Group, presented these reports to sessions of the UN Human
Rights Council and the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly;
as part of the work in the Group also travelled to several countries
(including Honduras, Tunisia, and Belgium) and visited EU institutions,
with the findings being recorded in detailed reports;
- 2011-present – Member of the
International Law Association (ILA), London; Member of
the ILA’s Committee on International Human Rights Law, which finished
its work in 2016; Member of the ILA’s Committee on Complementarity
in International Criminal Law (active since 2013) and Alternate
Member of the ILA’s Committee on Human Rights in Times of Emergency
(active since 2017); I organised and was a participant in numerous
conferences devoted to human rights protection.
V. Public activities
a. Public office
- 2016-2018 – Member of
the Experts Committee for the reform of the personal data protection
law in the European Union at the Inspector General for the Protection
of Personal Data, Poland;
- 2017-2018 – Adviser to the Ombudsman for Children (pro bono), Poland.
b. Elected posts
I do not hold and have never held or run for elected posts.
c. Posts held in
a political party or movement
I am not and have never been a member of a political party
or political movement, and so I can confirm that I do not hold and
have never held any positions in such organisations.
VI. Other activities
a. Field
International Relations.
b. Duration
2020-present.
c. Functions
Member of the Committee of the
Award of the Polish Association for International Studies.
VII. Publications
and other works
Author of over 100 publications (monographs, articles and
other works, in Polish, English and other languages) on international
law, including human rights law. List of selected publications:
- Elżbieta Karska, Drafting an International Legally Binding Instrument
on Business and Human Rights – The Next Step towards Strengthening
the Protection of Human Rights, ‘International Community
Law Review’ 2021, Vol. 23, Issue 5, pp. 466–485;
- Elżbieta Karska, Some Remarks
on Refugeehood as a Legal Issue // Kilka uwag o uchodźstwie jako zagadnieniu
prawnym, [in:] Elżbieta Karska (ed.), Refugeehood in
the 21st Century from the Perspective of
International, European Union and National Law // Uchodźstwo XXI
wieku z perspektywy prawa międzynarodowego, unijnego i krajowego,
Department of Human Rights Protection and International Humanitarian
Law Press (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), Warsaw 2020, pp.
9-21 (book: 275 pages);
- Elżbieta Karska, New Trends
in International Human Rights Protection Law as a Response to Changes //
Nowe tendencje w międzynarodowym prawie ochrony praw człowieka jako
odpowiedź na zmiany, [in:] Anna Tarwacka (ed.), Tempora
Mutantur Cum Legibus, Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2019, pp. 48-58;
- Elżbieta Karska (ed.), Refugees.
Current Issues of Law and Practice // Uchodźcy. Aktualne zagadnienia prawa
i praktyki, Department of Human Rights Protection and
International Humanitarian Law Press (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
University), Warsaw 2017, 148 pages;
- Elżbieta Karska, Human Rights
and International Criminal Law – Selected
Aspects of Jurisdiction, [in:] Elżbieta Karska, Narciso
Leandro Xavier Baez, Amalia Particia Cobos Campos (eds.), Human Dignity and Human Rights Serious Violations,
Qualis Editora (Brazil), Florianópolis-Santa Catarina 2016, pp. 11-38
(book: 244 pages);
- Elżbieta Karska (ed.), Global
Problems with the Protection of Human Rights // Globalne problemy ochrony
praw człowieka, Department of Human Rights Protection
and International Humanitarian Law Press (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
University), Warsaw 2015, 444 pages;
- Elżbieta Karska, The Relationship
Between Business and Human Rights – Some Remarks from the International
Law Practice and Doctrine’s Point of View // Relacje biznesu i praw
człowieka – kilka uwag z punktu widzenia praktyki i doktryny prawa
międzynarodowego, [in:] Anna Tarwacka (ed.), Iura et negotia,
Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2015, pp. 106-127;
- Elżbieta Karska (ed.), Rights
of the Child in International Law // Prawa dziecka w prawie międzynarodowym,
Department of Human Rights Protection and International Humanitarian
Law Press (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), Warsaw, 1st ed.
2013, 2nd ed. 2014, 356 pages;
- Elżbieta Karska (ed.), The
Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on Human Rights Protection
Systems and International Criminal and Humanitarian Law // Wpływ
Europejskiej Konwencji Praw Człowieka na systemy ochrony praw człowieka
oraz międzynarodowe prawo karne i humanitarne, ‘Mówią
Wieki’, Warsaw 2013, 367 pages;
- Elżbieta Karska, Gaps in International
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Relation to Accountability Involving
Private Military and Security Companies, ‘Polish Review
of International and European Law’ 2013, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 61-79;
- Elżbieta Karska, Subsidiarity
of Governmental and Non-governmental Organisations’ Resolutions
in the Jurisdiction of International Criminal Tribunals // Subsydiarność
uchwał organizacji rządowych i pozarządowych w jurysdykcji międzynarodowych
trybunałów karnych, ‘Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis’,
Wrocław 2009, 336 pages.
VIII. Languages
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IX. In the event
that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required
for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please
confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the
language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning
of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court
I can confirm my intention to participate in intensive French
language classes prior to and, if necessary, also at the beginning
of my term of duty, if I were to be elected a judge on the Court.
X. Other relevant
information
- Member of editorial
boards and advisory boards of numerous journals, including ‘Polski Rocznik Praw Człowieka i Prawa Humanitarnego’ / ‘Polish Review of Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law’ (Publisher: University of Warmia and Mazury), ‘Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego
i Porównawczego’ / ‘Issues
of Contemporary International, European and Comparative Law’ (Publisher:
Jagiellonian University), ‘Polski Przegląd
StosunkówMiędzynarodowych’ / ‘Polish Review of International Relations’ (Publisher:
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), ‘Polish
Review of International and European Law’ (Publisher:
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), ‘Międzynarodowe Prawo
Humanitarne’ / ‘International
Humanitarian Law’ (Publisher: Naval Academy), ‘Finance India’ (Publisher: Indian
Institute of Finance), ‘Wojskowy Przegląd
Prawniczy’ / ‘Military Juridical
Review’ (Publisher: Department of Military Affairs of
the National Public Prosecutor's Office) and ‘Stosunki Międzynarodowe
– International Relations’ (Publisher: University of
Warsaw // Taylor & Francis Group);
- 2021-present – Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Vice-Chairperson
of the Editorial Board of the ‘Przegląd Legislacyjny’
/ ‘Legislative Review Quarterly’ (Publisher: Wolters
Kluwer);
- 2014-present – Special Issues Editor of the ‘International Community Law Review’ (Publisher: Department
of Law, Queen Mary University of London // Nijhoff | Brill, Leiden-Boston);
the tasks of the Special Issues Editor include supervising the publication
of all Special Issues of the ICLR; the Special Issues Editor may
also be an Editor/Co-editor for a specific issue; in this latter
category are included the following Special Issues: The Use of Private Military and Security Companies
by the United Nations: International Legal Aspects, ICLR
2014, Vol. 16, Issue 4, 95 pages (Co-editor); Extraterritorial
Scope of Human Rights, ICLR 2015, Vol. 17, Issue 4-5,
122 pages (Co-editor); Foreign Fighters
and Foreign Terrorist Fighters: An International Law and Human Rights
Perspective, ICLR 2016, Vol. 18, Issue 5, 122 pages (Co-editor); Judicial Dialogue in Human Rights,
ICLR 2019, Vol. 21, Issue 5, 104 pages (Co-editor); Business and Human Rights: Legal Aspects,
ICLR 2021, Vol. 23, Issue 5, 118 pages (Co-editor).
- 2013-present – Editor-in-Chief of the academic monographs
series ‘Prawa Człowieka i Prawo Międzynarodowe’ / ‘Human Rights and International Law’ (Publisher:
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University);
- 2016-present – Member of the Advisory Board of the academic
monographs series ‘Prawo i Stosunki Międzynarodowe’ / ‘International Law and Relations’ (Publisher:
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University);
- Active participant in several dozen academic and expert
legal conferences (as a key speaker, chairperson and panel member),
including international conferences, and organizer or co-organizer
of more than a dozen academic law conferences, including the Warszawsko-Toruńskie Kolokwia Naukowe Praw
Człowieka i Międzynarodowego Prawa Humanitarnego / Warsaw-Toruń
Academic Seminars on Human Rights and International Humanitarian
Law, which have been organized for more than 10 years alternately
in Warsaw and Toruń by the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
and the Nicolaus Copernicus University;
- 2014 – Member of the Panel of Judges of the Polish National
Round of ‘The European Human Rights Moot
Court Competition’, ELSA Poland and National Chamber
of Attorneys-at-Law;
- Supervisor on several Ph.D. dissertations, more than 200
master's theses and several dozen bachelor's theses on international
law and international relations, including protection of human rights.
Reviewer of more than 30 Ph.D. and habilitation (Higher Doctorate)
dissertations on law, including dissertations on the law on the
protection of human rights.
XI. Please confirm
that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected
a judge on the Court
I confirm my readiness to take up permanent residence in Strasbourg,
if I were to be elected a judge on the Court.
Appendix 2 – Aleksander
STĘPKOWSKI
Curriculum Vitae
I. Personal details
Name, forename: STĘPKOWSKI, Aleksander Bogusław
Sex: male
Date and place of birth: 20 May 1974, London, United Kingdom
Nationality: Polish
II. Education and
academic and other qualifications
- Certificate in English
and European Law (1996) – Board of Continuing Education University
of Cambridge;
- Master in law (1997) – University of Warsaw;
- Diploma in classical solo singing (1999) – F. Chopin High
School (prof. Leonard A. Mróz class)
- PhD in legal science (2001) – University of Warsaw (thesis:
Trusts in Scots Law as a Mixed Legal System).
- Habilitated Doctor (2010) – University of Warsaw (thesis:
Principle of Proportionality in European Legal Culture. Judicial
Review of Discretionary Powers in Modern Europe).
III. Relevant professional
activities
a. Description of
judicial activities
Judge of the Supreme Court of
the Republic of Poland (current, since 2019).
I was appointed judge directly to the Supreme Court, with
no prior judicial experience. This is however long established practice
in Poland as envisaged in the statutory provisions, providing for
the senior members of academia opportunity to apply for judicial
posts in Supreme Court or in Constitutional Tribunal.
I have been adjudicating in the Chamber of Extraordinary Control
and Public Affairs within which constitutional review of final judgments
delivered by common courts is provided. This constitutional review
of final judgments supplements constitutional complaint as administered
by the Constitutional Tribunal in relation to statutory provisions.
Constitutional review, which I perform in the Supreme Court,
allows to verify the common courts’ final judgments as to their
conformity with fundamental constitutional rights and principles.
In this field, I was able to provide some innovative case-law solutions
(subsequently followed in other cases) stopping long-established
practice of circumvention of EU consumer protection law.
In cases I NsNc 22/20 and I NsNc 57/20, as the judge rapporteur,
I have provided a complex analysis reviewing conformity of extraordinary
constitutional review with the ECtHR principles protecting legal
certainty (protection of the res iudicata principle)
upon Article 6 of the ECHR.
This kind of constitutional review of the final judgments
allows also applications to be based directly upon the ECHR. It
could be illustrated by the case I NsNc 89/20 in which I was the
judge rapporteur, considering application based on manifest breach
of ECHR Article 10.
I have been also adjudicating as judge providing cassatory
control over decisions of public regulators in matters including i.a. consumer protection, transport
regulations, energy market, media market and others.
I have been also considering cases for excessive length of
the proceedings in appellate jurisdiction, applying standards of
the ECHR in this respect, as implemented into Polish legislation.
Other important field of judicial activity is review of the
resolutions taken by the National Council of the Judiciary, including
presentation for the appointment to the office of judge.
I have been adjudicating also in electoral complaints (so
called: “election protests”) raised in the national parliamentary
elections, as well as elections to the European Parliament in 2019
and elections of the President of the Republic of Poland in 2020.
b. Description of
non-judicial legal activities
Professor of Law at the University
of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration.
I have been formally working at the Faculty of Law and Administration
University of Warsaw since November 2001 after being granted with
the PhD degree in law, however I had been teaching there already
since 1997. In 2001 I have started my employment as associated professor
and after being granted with the degree of the habilitated doctor
in legal sciences in 2011 (specialisation in public
comparative law) I was promoted in November 2014 to the
post of the full professor of the University of Warsaw. In 2016
I was nominated the head of the Sociology of Law Chair at the Faculty
of Law and Administration.
My postdoctoral degree was granted to me upon the examination
of the book focused on the way judicial review was imposed on exercising
of discretion vested in executive or legislative powers. I have
analysed principle ofproportionality considered as a
means enabling such an extraordinary
judicial review. My book starts with detailed description
and analysis of the formation of administrative courts jurisdiction
in leading national legal cultures (French, English, German, Austrian
and Polish) and continues through the analysis of the subsequent formation
of constitutional courts jurisdiction in those countries, as well
as jurisdiction of international tribunals (ECtHR and CJEU). I took
particular focus on the emergence, development and pan-European
dissemination of the proportionality
review, considered as a kind of common European concept
integrating also particular domestic means of similar character.
In my teaching activity I am focused on intellectual foundations
and development of the principles of freedom and equality in European
legal culture as well as the issue of legal axiology, including
theory and the development of the human rights.
c. Description of
non-legal professional activities
None.
IV. Activities and
experience in the field of human rights
- from November 2015 to
August 2016 – Coordinating relationships between Poland and the
Human Rights International Institutions (i.a. Council of Europe;
UN Human Rights Council; ODHIR – OSCE) in capacity of the deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- from 2013 to October 2015 – President of the Foundation
Institute for Legal Culture Ordo Iuris – NGO providing assistance
for people suffering from discrimination or abuse of administrative
power (including litigation assistance), as well as information
coverage on the human rights issues and training for law students
in this field. Participation in the proceedings before the Polish
Constitutional Tribunal, the European Court of Human Rights and
the European Committee of Social Rights (presenting amici curiae briefs).
V. Public activities
a. Public office
- Acting First President
of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland (May 2020).
- Undersecretary of State in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
responsible for Human Rights and Legal Affairs (from November 2015
to August 2016).
In my short diplomatic activity, I had particularly intensive
and close relationships with the Council of Europe. I am often presented
in the public opinion as a person who had inspired the first application
by the Polish government for the opinion of the Venice Commission
in 2015/2016. I was also defending this decision when it was criticised.
b. Elected posts
None.
c. Posts held in
a political party or movement
None.
VI. Other activities
a. Field
Communication.
b. Duration
Since 26 May 2020.
c. Functions
Spokesperson of the Supreme Court
of the Republic of Poland (current)
As a spokesperson to the Supreme Court, I have organised two
international visits to the European Court of Human Rights and to
the Council of Europe. I have also organised several remote (due
to Covid-19 restrictions) meetings of the representatives of the
Supreme Court with the delegations from various Council of Europe bodies.
VII. Publications
and other works
- Zasada
proporcjonalności w europejskiej kulturze prawnej. Sądowa kontrola
władzy dyskrecjonalnej w nowoczesnej Europie [Principle of Proportionality
in European Legal Culture. Judicial Review of Discretionary Powers
in Modern Europe], Warszawa: Liber 2010, pp. 458.
- L’institution du trust dans
le système mixte du droit privé écossais, Varsovie: Liber
2005, pp. 198.
- Human Rights, [in:] Social Dictionaries: Political Ethics,
ed. P. Świercz, Krakow: Ignatianum University Press 2021, p. 277-294.
- Human Dignity and Two Ways
of its Understanding [in:] New Challenges for law: Studies
on the Dignity of Human Life, ed. J.M. Puyol Montero, Valencia:
Tirant lo Blanch 2020, p. 43-58.
- Between Wines and Spirits.
Classification Challenges of Polish ‘Fruit Wine’-based Products
in EU Perspective [in:] Wine Law and Policy. From National
Terroirs to a Global Market, ed. Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões,
and Danny Friedmann, Brill 2020, p. 146-174 (co-aut. J. Pawlikowska,
L. Wiwała).
- Contemporary Conscience-Related
Controversies against Philosophical Background [in:]
Contemporary Challenges to Conscience. Legal and Ethical Frameworks
for Professional Conduct, ed. A. Stępkowski, Berlin: Peter Lang
2019, pp. 294.
- The Emergence of the Right
to Life in Polish Constitutional Law [in:] Unborn Human
Life and Fundamental Rights. Leading Constitutional cases under
Scrutiny, ed. P. Zambrano, W. Saunders, Berlin: Peter Lang 2019,
p. 115-128 (co-aut. J. Ferenz).
- The Necessity for a Holistic
Approach to Protecting Human Life [in:] Protection of
Human Life in Its Early Stage: Intellectual Foundations and Legal
Means, ed. A. Stępkowski, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2014, pp.
266.
- Problem „istoty” prawa podstawowego
w perspektywie klasycznych teorii prawa podmiotowego [The Core-Content
of the Fundamental Right in the Perspective of Classical Subjective
Rights Theories], «Zeszyty Prawnicze UKSW» 13.4/2013,
p. 115-126.
- Koncepcja gender-based violence
i perspektywy jej empirycznej ewaluacji [The concept of the gender-based
violence and the perspectives for its empirical evaluation] [in:]
Studia nad formalnymi i nieformalnymi źródłami prawa, ed. T. Barankiewicz,
J. Potrzeszcz & others, TN KUL: Lublin 2020, p. 247-263.
VIII. Languages
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First language:
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Official languages:
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IX. In the event
that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required
for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please
confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the
language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning
of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court
I believe that my knowledge of French is fair enough for performing
judicial activity. I was working in French while preparing publication
of my doctoral thesis (L’institution
du trust dans le système mixte du droit privé écossais),
as well as analysing case law of the Conseil d’Etat and the Conseil
Constitutionnel while preparing my habilitation on the principle
of proportionality. I was also i.a.
invited speaker by the (then) Advocate General of the CJEU Melchior
Wathelet during the Grande Conférence
européenne Jean Rey (Université de Liège 28.10.2016)
delivering presentation onLa Situation juridique en Pologne dans un contexte
Européen.
However, I do confirm that I am going to further improve my
French during intensive language course prior to the beginning of
the term of my duty, if elected.
X. Other relevant
information
I have considerable experience in co-operation within international
environment both diplomatic and scientific, as well as experience
in international co-operation between NGOs. Being editor of two
English volumes devoted to the protection of human rights and published
by the international scientific publisher (Peter Lang), I have gathered
a variety of academic authors from different countries within these
academic projects. I have also organised several big international
academic conferences on human rights at the University of Warsaw
(in 2012, 2015, 2016). I have also participated as a speaker in
several international conferences in France, Germany, Austria, Spain,
Belgium, United States (Washington, Harvard), as well as in the
UN, including being keynote speaker at Grand
conférence européenne Jean Rey in Liège (2016). I have
also participated in the scientific undertakings as a contributor
to international scientific volumes.
XI. Please confirm
that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected
a judge on the Court
I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg
if elected.
Appendix 3 – Dr Agnieszka
SZKLANNA
Curriculum Vitae
I. Personal details
Name, forename: SZKLANNA, Agnieszka
Sex: Female
Date and place of birth: 25 December 1973, Gdańsk, Poland
Nationalities: Polish and French
II. Education and
academic and other qualifications
- 2008: PhD in legal sciences
(doktor nauk prawnych), PhD
thesis (in Polish) on “Aliens’ protection under the case law of
the European Court of Human Rights”, Faculty of Law and Administration,
International Law Institute, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.
- 2004: Diploma certifying passing the bar exam at the Warsaw
Bar Association, Warsaw, Poland.
- 1998: MA in legal sciences (magister
nauk prawnych), Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University,
Warsaw, Poland.
- 1998: Master of Arts in European Studies, field of study
– law, College of Europe – Natolin, Warsaw, Poland (branch of the
College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium).
- 1997: MA in applied linguistics (magister
lingwistyki stosowanej), French and English translation, Department
of Applied Linguistics and East Slavic Studies, Applied Linguistics
Institute, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.
- 1997: Certificate of Studies in French and European Law,
Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw, Poland,
in cooperation with the Poitiers University, France.
III. Relevant professional
activities
a. Description of
judicial activities
- 2003-2004 – lawyer at
the Polish division, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights
(ECtHR), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. Drafting decisions
for committees of three judges and chamber judgments.
- 2000-2001 – in the framework of the traineeship at the
Warsaw Bar Association, trainee at six different courts in Warsaw
(first and second-instance criminal and civil courts, regional commercial
court and land register division of the regional court). Attending
court hearings and drafting judgments.
b. Description of
non-judicial legal activities
Since August 2009 until now –
Secretary to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Secretariat
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg,
France.
Main activities:
- drafting
draft reports, resolutions, recommendations and opinions for committee
rapporteurs on various issues concerning the protection of human
rights, European legal co-operation and public international law
(such as the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments
and the functioning of the system based on the European Convention
on Human Rights, the rule of law, access to courts and the status
of Ombudsman institutions, the situation of human rights defenders,
the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly and to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion, national minorities’
rights, non-discrimination, the right to nationality, human rights
and business, human rights and climate change, combatting terrorism
and impunity for serious human rights violations, abolition of the
death penalty and relations between the European Union and the Council
of Europe).
- researching and conducting legal analysis on those issues.
- organising fact-finding visits for committee rapporteurs
in Council of Europe member States and international organisation,
and taking part in such visits.
- speaking at seminars concerning the activities of the
committee for MPs, MEPs, judges and prosecutors, civil servants,
lawyers, students and PhD students in law, and representatives of
civil society, as well as at various conferences organised by the
Council of Europe and other international organisations.
- 2020-2021 – visiting lecturer, Law Faculty, Paris-Dauphine
University, Paris.
- 2012-2020 – visiting lecturer, Political Sciences Institute,
Strasbourg University, France.
- 2004-2009 – legal officer and head of section (2007-2009),
Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court
of Human Rights, General Directorate of Human Rights and Legal Affairs,
Council of Europe. Main activities: analysing judgments of the ECtHR
in order to determine the execution measures to be taken by the
respondent States, drafting documents for the Committee of Ministers
(draft notes, decisions, interim or final resolutions); taking part
in negotiations with the respondent States’ delegations; supervising
other lawyers; giving conferences on the activities of the Department
to lawyers, judges, prosecutors, law students and PhD students,
staff members of the ECtHR Registry and at external events in member
States of the Council of Europe.
- 2002 – visiting lecturer, Madonna University, Okija Campus,
Nigeria.
- 1999-2004 – trainee barrister, Karniol Małecki i Wspólnicy
Sp. z o.o. law firm, Warsaw. Main activities: drafting legal opinions,
draft agreements, judicial correspondence and other documents in
cases concerning civil, commercial and criminal law, pleading on
behalf of clients before courts and translating legal documents
into/from French and English.
- 1999-2004 – academic assistant, PhD student, International
Law Institute, Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University.
Giving tutorials on public international law.
- 2000 – consultant, Ministry of Health, Warsaw. Drafting
legal opinions on the compatibility of Polish legislation with European
Union law on public health and consumers’ protection.
- 2000 – trainee, DG Health and Consumer Protection, European
Commission, Brussels.
- 1999 – lawyer, law firm Gide Loyrette Nouël Polska Sp.
z o.o., Warsaw. Main activities: drafting legal opinions on issues
of administrative and civil law and translating legal documents
into/from French and English.
c. Description of
non-legal professional activities
1998-2003 – translation of legal texts (including European
Union directives, Polish laws and articles on legal issues) for
private entities, the Warsaw University and the Ministry of Telecommunications.
IV. Activities and
experience in the field of human rights
See items III a) and b) above. Outside the scope of my main
professional activities, I spoke at several seminars and conferences,
namely:
- 2021 (May) – “The legal
situation of national minorities in Lithuania in the context of
national and international law”, conference organised by the European
Human Rights Foundation, Vilnius;
- 2017 (May) – “The Representation of the Republic of Poland
before the European Court of Human Rights: Over Two Decades of Experience
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”, conference organised by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw;
- 2015 (June) – “The
Status of Alien in Poland vis-à-vis Current
International Challenges”, organised by the Polish Helsinki Foundation
on the occasion of its 25th anniversary,
Warsaw;
- 2010 (December) – conferences on the protection of human
rights and the rights of national minorities for the European Human
Rights Foundation, Vilnius;
- 2008 (May) – seminar on the ECtHR case law against Poland,
organised for Polish judges and prosecutors by the European Centre
of the Warsaw University, Warsaw.
Moreover, in 2016 and 2017, I was a member of the jury of
the Moot Court competition organised by the European Law Students’
Association (ELSA), Council of Europe.
V. Public activities
a. Public office
See item III above.
b. Elected posts
None.
c. Posts held in
a political party or movement
None.
VI. Other activities
a. Field
Law, European integration.
b. Duration
Respectively since 2004, 2007
and 2001.
c. Functions
Member of the Warsaw Bar Association
(as a non-practicing barrister), of the European Society of International
Law (ESIL) and of the College of Europe Alumni Association.
VII. Publications
and other works
One book: Legal protection of aliens
under the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (in
Polish), Europrawo, Warsaw, 2010, 413 pp.
Total number of articles: 23, including:
- 2019: The
Right to a Nationality in Recent Case Law of the European Court
of Human Rights and Council of Europe Bodies’ Work, ‘European
Yearbook on Human Rights 2019’, ed. Ph. Czech and others, Intersentia,
pp. 313-336.
- 2018: Delays in the Implementation
of ECtHR Judgments: The Example of Cases Concerning Electoral Issues,
‘European Yearbook on Human Rights 2018’, ed. W. Benedek and others,
Intersentia, pp. 445-464.
- 2017: Implementation of Judgments
of the European Court of Human Rights: The Interaction Between the
Court, the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe, ‘European Yearbook on Human
Rights 2017’, ed. W. Benedek and others, Neuer Wissenschaflticher Verlag,
Vienna, Graz, pp. 289-306.
- 2016: Respect for Human Rights
and the Principle of Rule of Law within the European Union (in
French: Le respect des droits de l'Homme
et du principe de l'Etat de droit au sein de l'UE), proceedings
of the 6th conference of researchers’
federation “A changing Europe” under the tile “The Relations between
the Council of Europe and the European Union. Complementarity or
Competition?”, ed. F. Berrod and B. Wassenberg, Strasbourg University,
l’Harmattan, pp. 157-181.
- 2012: The Standing of Applicants
and NGOs in the Process of Supervision of ECtHR Judgments by the Committee
of Ministers, ‘European Yearbook on Human Rights 2012’,
ed. W. Benedek and others, Neuer Wissenschaflticher Verlag, Vienna,
pp. 269-280.
- 2011: The Role of Interim Measures
Indicated by the ECtHR under Rule 39 of Its Rules of Procedure for the
Protection of Aliens Against Their Removal Contrary to the ECHR,
‘European Yearbook on Human Rights 2011’, ed. W. Benedek and others,
Neuer Wissenschaflticher Verlag, Vienna, pp. 361-374.
- 2010: The Impact of the Pilot
Judgment Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights on the Execution
of its Judgments, ‘European Yearbook on Human Rights
2010’, ed. W. Benedek and others, Neuer Wissenschaflticher Verlag,
Vienna, pp. 223-232.
- 2010: Violations of the Right
to Respect One’s Family Life, article (in Polish) published
in ‘Europejski Przegląd Sądowy’, Warsaw, pp. 18-28.
- 2009: The Supervision of the
Execution of ECtHR's Judgments by the Committee of Ministers of
the Council of Europe – Evolution, Proceedings and State of Play,
article (in Polish) published in the book “60 Years of the Council
of Europe – Standards' Creating and Applying”, ed. H. Machińska,
Oficyna Prawa Polskiego, Warsaw, pp. 247-266.
- 2008: The Execution of Judgments
of the ECtHR – General Matters and Specific Issues Related to the Polish
Cases, article (in Polish) published in the ‘Bulletin
of the Warsaw Information Office of the Council of Europe’, Scientific
Editions Scholar, No. 2/2008, Warsaw, pp. 5-23.
VIII. Languages
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First language:
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Official languages:
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IX. In the event
that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required
for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please
confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the
language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning
of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court
X. Other relevant
information
- 2007 – Diploma de Español
como Lengua Extranjera (Nivel Superior), Spanish language diploma, Cervantes
Institute.
- 1995-1996 – holder of a scholarship from the General Council
of Maine-et-Loire Département, studies at the Institute of Training
in Modern Languages (French and English translation), Université Catholique de l’Ouest,
Angers, France.
- 1981-1985 – French primary school Lycée
Pasteur, Oran, Algeria.
XI. Please confirm
that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected
a judge on the Court
I currently live in Strasbourg and will continue to live there
if elected a judge on the Court.
