(Born in 1949); Professor of Legal Studies, Head of the Chair of Criminology and Criminal

14.04.2009

Andrzej Rzepliński

(born in 1949); Professor of Legal Studies, Head of the Chair of Criminology and Criminal Policy at Warsaw University and Head of the Human Rights Studies Centre, functioning within the framework of the Chair.

Author of 211 research publications. He authored five books, co-authored 26 books, was an expert editor of 22 books. He also authored or co-authored 13 drafts of bills, including a constitutional bill – Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1991 and a bill on the Institute of National Remembrance in 1998, as well as a bill on access to public information in 2001.

Main fields of academic interest: constitutional human rights, judiciary and its history during the Polish People’s Republic, state crimes, death penalty, homicide perpetrators, comparative criminal policy, prison studies, police law, corruption.

In the years 1990-1991 he was an advisor to the director general of the Central Board of Penitentiary Institutions on legal aspects of the prison reform. In the years 1993-1995 he was an advisor the President of Poland on the project of Charter of Rights and Freedoms and on the draft of the Constitution of Republic of Poland. In the years 1997-2001 he was an advisor to the minister coordinating secret services on the draft bill on the Institute of National Remembrance. In the years 2001-2005 he was an advisor to the President of the Institute of National Remembrance at the Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation.

In the years 1989-2007 he acted as an expert in the Polish parliament; in the years 1992-2007 he was an expert to the Council of Europe and OSCE.

In the years 1998-2007 he was a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics.

In the years 2005-2008 he was a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

He was a human right activist and a member of the Helsinki Committee and Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights until the end of 2007. In the years 1994-2004 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Helsinki for Human Rights in Vienna.

Since 2008 he has been a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.

Andrzej Rzepliński

[Tłumaczenie: Natalia Charitonow]