Michał Krotoszyński Ph.D.

Photo depicting Michał Krotoszyński PhDAcademic position: assistant professor
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E-mail: michal.krotoszynski@amu.edu.pl

Profession: attorney at law

Fields of interest: transitional justice,
theory and philosophy of law,
constitutional law

 

ACADEMIC PROFILE

I. Education

2016: Ph.D., Law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Dissertation: Modele sprawiedliwości tranzycyjnej (Eng. Models of Transitional Justice)
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Marzena Kordela

2010: LLM, Law, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Dissertation: Lustracja w Polsce w świetle modeli sprawiedliwości okresu tranzycji
(Eng. Polish Lustration in Light of Models of Transitional Justice)
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Sławomira Wronkowska

II. Academic employment

2017 – present: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Positions: Assistant Professor, Faculty E-learning Coordinator
Courses taught: Jurisprudence, Logic, Theory and Philosophy of Law,
Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law

III. Awards

2020/2021, 2019/2020, and 2018/2019: AMU Rector’s
“Praeceptor Laureatus” Teaching Award
For: Best Lecturer at AMU Law and Administration Faculty – Students’ Ballot

2017: AMU Rector’s Scientific Award (3rd Degree)
For: Book Models of Transitional Justice and paper Transitional Justice
Models and Analytic Philosophy: Towards Theory

IV. Languages

English: fluent (University of Cambridge’s Certificate of Proficiency in English)

V. Membership in organizations and functions

since 2014: Polish Section of the International Association
for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR)
(2014-2022: Member of the Executive Board, 2014-2018: Treasurer)

since 2021: Poznań Journal of Law, Economics and Sociology
(Polish: Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny)
Editor

VI. International visits

2022: University of Toronto Faculty of Law (Canada)
Status: Visiting Scholar under Canadian Global Skills Strategy
Research project: Transitional justice in light of theory of legal principles

2022: Syracuse University College of Law (USA)
Status: Visiting Scholar

2018: University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law (South Africa)
Status: Guest scholar
Research project: Law, morality and political transformation. The influence
of ubuntu philosophy on South African transitional justice process and legal system

VII. Grants

2014/15: AMU Research Grant for Young Scholars and Ph.D. Candidates

VIII. Publications

Books:

  1. Modele sprawiedliwości tranzycyjnej (Eng. Models of Transitional Justice),
    Adam Mickiewicz University Press 2017.
  2. Lustracja w Polsce w świetle modeli sprawiedliwości okresu tranzycji
    (Eng. Polish Lustration in Light of Models of Transitional Justice),
    Polish Helsinki Foundationfor Human Rights 2014 [e-book]

Papers in English:

  1. (with M. Nalepa) Poland, in: L. Stan, N. Nedelsky (eds.), Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023, pp. 927-934.
  2. (with M. Ciobanu) Lustraton Court (Poland), in: L. Stan, N. Nedelsky (eds.), Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, Cambridge University Press,
    Cambridge 2023, pp. 1434-1437.
  3. Education and Democratic Values from the Transitional Justice Perspective,
    in: M. Paździora, M. Stambulski (eds.), Democracy, Legal Education,
    and the Political    , Peter Lang, Berlin 2023, pp. 31-46.
  4. From Legal Impossibilism to the Rule of Law Crisis: Transitional Justice
    and Polish Counter-Constitutionalism    , IMAGINE Paper No. 25/iCourts Working Paper Series No. 304, University of Copenhagen 2022
  5. Legal Interpretation in Periods of Political Transformation,
    in: M. Smolak, P. Kwiatkowski (eds.), Poznań School of Legal Theory,
    Brill-Rodopi 2020, pp. 384–401.
  6. (with M. Hermann) American Concepts of Legal Interpretation from the Perspective of Polish Theory of Law, in: Ł. Bartosik, M. Urbańczyk, D. Szlingiert (eds.),
    American Law and American Jurisprudence: Interpretations, Challenges, Procedures, AMU Press 2020, pp. 11-23.
  7. Transitional Justice and the Constitutional Crisis: The Case of Poland (2015–2019), Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej (Eng. Journal of the Polish Section
    of IVR) 2019/3(21), pp. 22-39.
  8. Legislative History, Ratio Legis, and the Concept of the Rational Legislator,
    in: M. Dybowski, V. Klappstein (eds.), Ratio Legis. Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives, Springer 2018, pp. 57-73.
  9. Transitional Justice Models and Analytic Philosophy: Towards Theory,
    Polish Political Science Yearbook 2017/2(46), pp. 9-21.
  10. The Transitional Justice Models and the Justifications of Means of Dealing
    with the Past    . Oñati Socio-legal Series 2016/6(3), pp. 584-606.
  11. Polish Lustration and the Models of Transitional Justice,
    Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review, 2014/3, pp. 199-211.

IX. Presentations at international conferences

  1. Conference Constitutional Imaginaries of Europe, University of Copenhagen,
    (6-7.10.2022); paper: „From Legal Impossibilism to the Rule of Law Crisis: Transitional Justice and Polish Counter-Constitutionalism
  2. 2022 IVR World Congress Justice, Community and Freedom, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in Bucharest (03-08.07.2022); papers: Street Naming, Speech Acts and the Law and Transitional Justice in Light of Theory of Legal Principles
  3. Conference American Legal, Political and Economic Thought, AMU (11.05.2018); paper: American Concepts of Legal Interpretation from the Perspective of Polish Theory of Law (with M. Hermann).
  4. 2017 IVR World Congress Peace based on Human Rights, University of Lisbon (16-21.07.2017); paper: Legislative History, Ratio Legis and the Concept of the Rational Legislator.
  5. PPSY International Seminar Transitional Justice: Between Redemption and Retribution, University of Łódź (06.06.2017); paper: Towards Theory.
    Transitional Justice and Analytic Philosophy    .
  6. 9th CEE Forum: Democracy, Academia and the Political, University of Wrocław (27-28.04.2017); paper: Education and Democratic Values from a Transitional Justice Perspective.
  7. ISA Human Rights Joint Conference, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istambul (16-18.06.2014); paper: Gaining the knowledge, gaining the power. The right to know and democratization.
  8. Global-Regional-Local. Institutions, Relations, Networks. Past and future of the sociology of law, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain (21-23.05.2014); paper: The Transitional Justice Models and the Justifications of Means of Dealing with the Past.
  9. International Conference of Young Scholars, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius (31.05.2012); paper: Comparative Aspects of Transitional Justice