Law

Duration of studies: 4 years (8 semesters)

Description of the programme:

The aim of the programme is to provide PhD students with specific knowledge of narrow legal specialisations and the skills to develop it independently through innovative research methods and then implement it into doctoral projects. Within the framework of the program, obligatory and facultative classes are provided that expose the achievements of the general theoretical and historical sciences and the so-called  detailed dogmatics, as well as lectures of professors from other academic centers, who will disseminate the knowledge of their research specialties.

The programme provides PhD students with the required experience and extended specialist knowledge in the field of legal sciences necessary to perform a variety of public functions and professional roles requiring advanced legal knowledge.

Career opportunities.

Advanced legal knowledge is useful and even necessary in most areas of professional and economic activity. Primarily, it includes the legal professions, the growing field of legal and economic consulting, the public service in the judiciary and public administration, including local government and the NGO sector.

Graduates have knowledge and skills in the field of legal sciences, but also in part of the study of administration included in the scope of administrative law. They are qualified to work at all levels of public authority, in all legal professions, in government bodies and offices of general and special administration (combined and non-combined) and local government units, in legal service units and administrative services of economic operators, offices of non-governmental organizations and political parties, national institutions, EU and international administration, as well as enterprises cooperating with EU Member States and their representatives, as leaders of units or to continue research in as academic experts in their field. In particular, they will be well prepared for a post-doctoral internship and for work in research institutes in the country and abroad.

Keywords:

  • general jurisprudence
  • penal sciences
  • private law
  • legal system of authority and public administration
  • europeanisation of national and international law

Candidates for PhD Supervisors

ORCID Number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9705-7665
Department/Chair/Institute: Department of Public International Law and European Union Law
Faculty: Faculty of Law and Administration
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: 664 018 985
Email: joanna.banach-gutierrez@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: Not provided
ResearchGate Account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanna-Banach-Gutierrez

Academic Discipline:
Law
Security Sciences

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): 8 (since 2012)
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: 15 (2016-2024)
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 6
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 97 (since 2019)
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 6
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 0
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: Not provided

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes
Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Public International Law
  • European Union Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • EU Criminal Law
  • Contemporary Criminology and Victimology
  • Comparative Criminal Law (substantive, procedural, executive)
  • The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice of the European Union

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    There is a possibility to submit the application for domestic or foreign grants. No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    No

ORCID Number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3092-1105
Department/Chair/Institute: Chair of Administrative and Judicial-Administrative Proceedings
Faculty: Faculty of Law and Administration
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: Not provided
Email: przemyslaw.krzykowski@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: Not provided
ResearchGate Account: Not provided

Academic Discipline:
Discipline Legal Sciences

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: Not provided
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 91
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 6
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 2
    • Supervisor in the doctoral dissertation of Andrzej Brzuzy, M.Sc. Defence took place on 28 September 2016.
    • Supervisor in the doctoral dissertation of Ewa Dymek, MA. The defence took place on 13 September 2019.
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: Not provided

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes
Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. General administrative procedure
  2. Special administrative procedures
  3. Distribution and recovery of EU funds
  4. Judicial review of administration
  5. Irregularities in the spending of EU funds

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    No

ORCID Number: 0000-0002-3525-7450
Department/Chair/Institute: Department of Administrative Law and Security Sciences
Faculty: Faculty of Law and Administration
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: +48 502 147 032
Email: piotr.sitniewski@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: www.jawnosc.pl
ResearchGate Account: Piotr Sitniewski

Academic Discipline:
The field of Social Sciences – the disciplines of Legal Sciences, Administrative Sciences

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: Not provided
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): Not provided
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): Not provided
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 0
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 0

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes
Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. The limits of transparency in public life
  2. Access to public information as an element of social control of public authorities
  3. International comparative research on the right to information
  4. Defining the subject matter of the right to information – a comparative legal approach in the international dimension
  5. Legal and organizational solutions aimed at ensuring honesty in the public sphere
  6. Research on the right to truth in the aspect of the concept of supplementing the catalog of human rights

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    No

ORCID Number: 0000-0003-2169-5326
Department/Chair/Institute: Administrative and Court Administrative Chair
Faculty: Law and Administration
University: UWM in Olsztyn
Telephone: 89 524 64 30
Email: agnieszka.skora@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: –
ResearchGate Account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agnieszka-Skora

Academic Discipline:
Law

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): 0/3
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: 0/30
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 4
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 218
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 7
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 3
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 1

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes / No
Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes / No

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. Administrative proceedings
  2. New technologies
  3. AI in administrative and court administrative proceedings
  4. Trust services, eIDAS, DSA, AI Act

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    No

ORCID Number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1243-3394
Department/Chair/Institute: Department of Economic and Commercial Law
Faculty: Faculty of Law and Administration
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: 665665802
Email: jakub.ziety@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: –
ResearchGate Account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jakub-Jan-Ziety

Academic Discipline:
Law

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): 9
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: 18
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 3
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 118
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 5
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 3
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 3

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes
Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. ESG in the operation of commercial companies
  2. Objectives and principles of operation of companies with public entities
  3. Bioeconomy in the development of enterprises

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    No
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