Prof. Karol Weitz, judge at the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court since 2014. Head of the Chair of Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. Author of over 200 academic publications in the field of civil procedure, in particular in international and European civil procedural law and arbitration. Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal “Polski Proces Cywilny” (Polish Civil Procedure).
Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Burkhardt Hess, Full professor of procedural law at the University of Vienna. Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lisbon, University of Ghent, International Hellenic University Thessaloniki Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. He taught courses in Hague Academy of International Law (2017, 2025). Guest professor at the following Universities: National Taiwan University, New York University School of Law, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Faculty of Law, Renmin University of Beijing, the University of Paris. He served as a part-time judge at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe.
Dr. hab. Tadeusz Zembrzuski, Professor at the University of Warsaw – Assistant Professor at the Chair of Civil Procedure at the University of Warsaw, attorney-at-law, lecturer at the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law. Plenipotentiary of the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw for cooperation with legal professional self-governments. Author of nearly 200 academic publications. Since 2009 employed as a member of the Supreme Court Research and Analyses Office. Member of the Professional Development Committee of the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law. Member of the International Association of Procedural Law.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hau, Chair of Civil Law and German, International and Comparative Civil Procedure Law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Legal studies at Saarland University, the University of Wales (Diploma in Legal Studies, Cardiff 1992) and Trier University (state examinations 1994 and 1997; Dr. iur. 1995). 1997−2003 Research assistant at the University of Trier (2002 Habilitation and venia legendi in civil law, procedural law, private international law and comparative law). 2003−2017 University of Passau, Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law and Private International Law (2008−2010 Dean of the Faculty of Law; 2010−2014 Vice-President of the University). From 2016 to 2023, part-time judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court. Since 2023, Chairman of the Academic Association for International Procedural Law.
Dr. Marcin Białecki, LL.M. in International and Comparative Children’s Rights, attorney-at-law and mediator, Doctor of Law. Assistant Professor at the Chair of Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, and academic tutor. Mediator in civil, family, and commercial matters, including family mediator in cross-border cases; expert in the Network of International Family Mediators and Cross-border Family Mediators. Graduate of the German Law School (Münster), scholarship recipient at the University of Strasbourg (comparative law) and Justus Liebig University Giessen; trainee at the CCBE office in Brussels. Winner of nationwide advocacy competitions and finalist of the Human Rights Competition in Caen. Author of dozens of academic publications and analyses in the fields of civil procedure, parental abduction issues, and mediation.
Attorney Susanne Koehler, certified lawyer since 1990. Specialized in family affairs (mostly partner violence). Volunteer worker in Women’s Association of the Free State of Saxony Member of the German Female Lawyer’s Federation. She is also a delegated expert witness at hearings on proposed legislation in German state parliaments and the Bundestag and partakes in several Saxon committees for partner violence matters. Author of scholarly articles in various journals and handbooks on the topics of domestic violence and complex proceedings regarding parental custody and visitation rights.
Dr. Kerstin Niethammer-Jürgens is a practicing lawyer and partner in the Law office Jürgens Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Potsdam/Berlin leading a team of three specialized and certified Family Law attorneys. She studied law and political science in Göttingen, München and Würzburg including a three-month study visit at Yale Law School. After finishing her legal clerkship in Berlin Kerstin was admitted to the bar in 1991 and got her doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main in the same year. She is a member and since January 2020 the appointed Chairwoman of the Family Law Commission of the German Federal Bar (BRAK), and by this involved in all national family law topics and developments. She is regularly lecturing at the European Law Academy (ERA) in Trier and is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL).
Dr. Katarzyna Strąk, Assistant professor at the Department of European Law, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and member of the Centre for Research on Migration Law of this institution. Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (Feb 2017). In 2018, she worked as an expert for the European Commission evaluating grant applications under Horizon 2020; in 2023-2026 as an expert for the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and in 2019 and 2024, as an expert for the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Her research interests include the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and EU Citizenship.
Attorney at law Filip Rakoczy, attorney at law and academic teacher. He currently specialises in immigration law, providing legal assistance to non-governmental organisations, and commercial matters. He is the author of academic publications on the autonomy of law, its relationship with politics, legal education and the social role of the legal profession, as well as numerous legal opinions on draft legislation, which have been used both in the legislative process and in the media.
Dr. Kajetan Górny, Doctor of law, LL.M. (Viadrina) Germany, assistant professor, Department of Civil, Commercial and International Private Law, Institute of Legal Studies, Faculty of Law and Administration University Zielona Góra, lectured at universities in Germany and Switzerland, co-author of the commentary on the Civil Code in Poland, attorney-at-law in Poland, for over 15 years.
Judge Filip Lewandowski, graduate of law studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and of the Polish-German Law Program at the European University Viadrina. Judge at the Local Administrative Court in Frankfurt (Oder).
Liliana Sadowska, Master of German Philology, sworn translator of the German language, member of the Polish Association of Sworn and Specialized Translators (TEPIS). She specializes in translations in the fields of law, economics, and business, including translation support for court proceedings, notarial acts, and out-of-court negotiations. Since graduating, she has been involved in academic teaching: for over 30 years at the Institute of German Philology, University of Zielona Góra, and currently at the University Language Education Center (UZ), where she conducts, among others, translation exercises and specialized language courses. For 32 years, she organized and led a Polish-German-French colloquium for students, which was honored with the prestigious Weimar Triangle Award.
Iana Berger, lawyer and sworn translator of the Russian language, graduate of law studies and the additional program “Translator in Professional Communication” in English at the Faculty of Law, Irkutsk State University (Russia), as well as law studies at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of Wrocław. Author of eight publications in civil law in Polish, Russian, and English. Member of the Polish Association of Sworn and Specialized Translators (TEPIS). Co-organizer and translator of the lecture series “School of Russian Private Law,” covering civil and inheritance law, organized as part of the international cooperation between the University of Zielona Góra and St. Petersburg State University.
Prof. Zvonimir Jelinic, is an Associate Professor and head of the Department of Civil Procedure and Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek. A specialist in civil procedure, he holds a PhD from the University of Zagreb, where his doctoral research focused on legal renumeration systems and their impact on the efficiency of civil litigation. He is a founder and head of the OSIJEK PRO BONO Legal Clinic which is part of the system of free legal aid financed by the Croatian Ministry of Justice. Dr. Jelinic has published extensively on topics related to access to justice, procedural human rights and modernization of legal systems through electronic justice and online platforms.
Dr. Milica Shutova, is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, at University Goce Delchev in Shtip, Republic of North Macedonia. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Law, and her research interests span is in the area in civil procedure law, among others, family law, executive procedure. She has participated in several scientific research and application projects, as well as more than 30 scientific conferences. Shutova was a lecturer at several civil law seminars. Since 2018, it has been the National Tutor of the Council of Europe’s HELP program.
Dr. Jurgis Bartkus, is an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University. He earned his PhD in procedural law through a joint doctoral program at Ghent University and Vilnius University. He has held academic appointments and completed research stays at various institutions, including the University of Chicago Law School and New York University School of Law. His research focuses on civil procedure, arbitration, and Roman law. Since 2025 he is Young Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LAS) and Member of the International Association of Procedural Law.
Prof. Magdalena Tulibacka, holds a PhD in Law (Westminster University, London) and a Magister Iuris degree in Polish Law (University of Nicolas Copernicus, Toruń, Poland). She is the Director of Emory Law’s Center for International and Comparative Law, and teaches International Law, Comparative Law, EU Law and International Business Transactions at Emory Law School. She taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Westminster, the Warsaw and Cracow Universities in Poland, the Academy of European Law in Trier, and other academic institutions. She wrote, co-wrote and edited a number of books on product liability law, class actions, costs of litigation, and Polish tort law. She participated in pan-European and global comparative research projects, spoke at international legal and corporate conferences, trained European civil servants, advised the European Parliament and European Commission on civil procedure, consumer law and collective redress, and advised multi-national corporations on European Union law and policy.
Prof. Theo Broodryk, is professor of Law at Stellenbosch University, where he serves as Acting Vice Dean: Research and Internationalisation and Head of the Law Clinic. He holds BA, LLB, and LLD degrees from Stellenbosch University and is an admitted attorney. A Y1 NRF-rated researcher, he has authored Eckardʼs Principles of Civil Procedure and Fundamental Principles of Civil Procedure. He is a Beaufort Fellow at St Johnʼs College, Cambridge, and has held visiting positions at Stanford Law School. Awards include the Georg Forster Fellowship (2020) and the Chancellorʼs Award (2024). Since 2022, he has served on the South African Rules Board, leading the drafting of Uniform Rule 11A on class action certification.
Prof. Tomasz Milej, Associate Professor at School of Law of the University of Namibia. He is academician specializing in public international law, the law of regional integration, and comparative constitutional law. He holds degrees in German law from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and in Polish law from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2006, he earned his PhD (Dr. iur) from the University of Cologne, followed by a post-doctoral degree “habilitation”) in 2014 at the same institution. In early 2014, he relocated to East Africa to serve as a DAAD long-term lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam. In 2016, he became a professor at Kenyatta University, where he worked until December 2025. Since July 2024, he has been the Chairperson of AfriTrade Consulting Group’s Advisory Board.
Evans O. Ogada, LL.M. in Public International Law (University of Nairobi, 2018), advocate of the High Court of Kenya since 2017, specialist in constitutional and administrative law litigation in Kenya. Member of the Law Society of Kenya’s Public Interest Committee and the Constitutional/Judicial Review Bar Bench Committee of the Nairobi Branch. Formerly worked at the Katiba Institute, a leading public interest litigation organization. Lecturer in Public Law at the Kenyatta University in Nairobi. Associate Editor of The Platform for Law, Justice and Society. Member of the International Commission of Jurists (Kenya).
Dr. David Kryska, Regional Court in Prague (The Czech Republic) a member of the Department of Administrative Law and Public Administration at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague since 2012 (external co-worker since 2020). In 2018, appointed as a judge, and since 2020, serving as a judge in the Administrative Judicial Department of the Regional Court in Prague.
Dr. hab. Witold Klaus, Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (head of the Centre for Research on Migration Law); criminologist, migration researcher, and social activist. Member of the Migration Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fellow of the British Academy, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Bielefeld University, and the U.S. government.
Dr. Monika Szulecka, Assistant professor at the Department of Criminology of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collaborator at the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw. Research interests: migration law in practice, migration control, border control, economic adaptation of migrants, and crime related to migration processes.
Dr. Maja Łysienia, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne and HES-SO Valais-Wallis (NCCR “On the Move”), studying the impact of crises on migration law and policy. President of the Swiss Network of Young Migration Scholars and board member of the Swiss Association for Migration and Mobility Studies. Collaborator of the Centre for Research on Migration Law, Polish Academy of Sciences. Expert in international and EU law at the AsyLex Advisory Council and national expert within the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Regularly collaborates with the Association for Legal Intervention and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Dr. hab. Marcin Górski, Professor at the University of Łódź – head of the Chair of European Constitutional Law at the University of Łódź, member of the Centre for Research on Migration Law, Polish Academy of Sciences, attorney-at-law, ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights (Poland) since 2024. Legal representative of the Rector of the University of Łódź. Fulbright fellow at Fordham University, New York. Author of approximately 170 publications in EU law, international law, human rights, and constitutional law.
Dr. Marcin Princ, Assistant professor at the Department of Administrative Law and Public Administration, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Researcher affiliated with the Migration Research Centre at AMU and the Centre for Research on Migration Law, Polish Academy of Sciences, and member of the Association for Public Administration Education. Author of several dozen publications, including 1 monograph, 2 popular science books, and about 30 scientific articles (5 in English, 1 in German). Research focuses on the administrative-legal status of individuals, the legal situation of foreigners in Poland, the relationship between public administration and individuals, and the theoretical and axiological foundations of modern public administration.
Dr. Izabela Florczak, Assistant professor at the Chair of Labour Law, Social Security and Social Policy, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź; attorney-at-law; coordinator of the Polish Labour and Social Security Law Network COOPERANTE; deputy head of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Łódź; researcher at the Centre for Research on Migration Law, Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of publications on employment law, particularly legal foundations of employment, migrant employment, and employment precarization.
Prof. Amina Manegia, Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia – Department of Political Sciences, where she teaches International and EU Migration Law/Policies, International Human Rights Protection and International Criminal Law. Her research focuses on human rights and international crimes, migration and asylum law and policies, international maritime law. She is a member of the “Italian Society of International Law” (SIDI) and of the scientific network “Academy of Law and Migrations” (ADiM).
