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:
Chair of Public International Law and European Union Law

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
664 018 985

E-mail:
joanna.banach-gutierrez@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanna-Banach-Gutierrez

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, it is possible to indicate one outside the doctoral school)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 10

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 15

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 6

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar, 2018–2025): 99

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 6

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Public international law

  • European Union law

  • Criminology and victimology

  • Criminal law and criminal procedure

  • International criminal law / international criminal justice

  • Comparative criminal law and justice systems

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    There is a possibility to apply for national and international grants

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    Yes

Additional remarks:
(none)

ORCID Number:
0000-0003-1150-0142

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Economic Law and Commercial Law

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury

Phone:
603 758 133

E-mail:
michal.krzykowski@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michal-Krzykowski

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 8

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 77

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 6

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 229

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 9

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: no

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Energy law

  • Public economic law / competition law

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    –

Additional remarks:
–

ORCID Number:
0000-0001-7549-017X

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Criminal Law and Misdemeanor Law

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
608 37 55 99

E-mail:
marta.romanczuk@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
Not applicable

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 0

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 0

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 0

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 61

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 4

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: no

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Criminal law and criminological aspects of counteracting violent crime (specific types)

  • Criminal law and criminological aspects of counteracting crimes against life and health (specific types)

  • Criminal law and criminological aspects of counteracting crimes against freedom (specific types)

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    Yes

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    Yes

Additional remarks:
Not applicable

ORCID Number:
0000-0002-3525-7450

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Administrative Law and Security Studies

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
502-147-032

E-mail:
piotr.sitniewski@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:
www.jawnosc.pl

ResearchGate profile:
Piotr Sitniewski

Scientific Discipline:
Field: Social Sciences – Disciplines: Legal Sciences, Administrative Sciences

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: No data

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: No data

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): No data

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): No data

  • H-index (Google Scholar): –

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Limits of transparency in public life

  • Access to public information as an element of public authority oversight

  • International comparative studies on the right to information

  • Subject matter definition of the right to information – comparative legal approach at the international level

  • Legal and organizational solutions aimed at ensuring integrity in the public sphere

  • Research on the right to truth in the context of expanding the catalogue of human rights

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    No

Additional remarks:
–

ORCID Number:
0000-0003-3316-1188

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Criminology and Forensic Science

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury

Phone:
501 033 716

E-mail:
magdalena.zubanska@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
Yes (URL not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators
(based on a bibliometric analysis dated 10.03.2025, prepared by the Scientific Information Department of the UWM Library):

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 6

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 72

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 4

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 137

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 6

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: —

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: —

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: (not specified)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Possibilities of using new technological solutions in forensic identification studies (individual and indirect identification)

  • Selection of documentation and inventory methods for complex crime scenes; reassessing the utility of basic forms of crime scene examination recording

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    Yes

Additional remarks:
Scientific output indicators are based on the bibliometric analysis dated 10.03.2025, prepared by the Scientific Information Department of the UWM Library.

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9553-7665

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Criminology and Forensic Science

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
661 662 690

E-mail:
piotr.chlebowicz@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piotr-Chlebowicz

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 1

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: (no data)

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 1

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 208

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 7

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 2

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: –

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: no

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Organized crime, terrorism, intelligence services

  • Issues of evidence law, including the role of criminal analysis, forensic psychiatric opinions; the problem of insanity in criminal law

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    Yes

Additional remarks:
(none)

ORCID Number:
0000-0003-2169-5326

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Administrative Procedure and Administrative Judiciary

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 89 524 64 30

E-mail:
agnieszka.skora@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:
Not available

ResearchGate profile:
Profile on ResearchGate

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 0 / 3

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 0 / 30

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 4

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 218

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 7

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 3

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Administrative procedure

  • New technologies in administration and judiciary

  • Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence Act, eIDAS Regulation

  • Trust services in administration and judiciary (electronic signature, electronic delivery, electronic seal, website authentication, electronic time stamp, and others)

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to carry out the planned research tasks?
    No

Additional remarks:
–

ORCID Number:
0000-0002-1243-3394

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Economic Law and Commercial Law

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
665 665 802

E-mail:
jakub.ziety@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jakub-Jan-Ziety?ev=hdr_xprf

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 6

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 30

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 3

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 156

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 7

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 2

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 3

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: (not specified)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Commercial and economic law

  • Bioeconomy

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    Yes

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    Yes

Additional remarks:
(none)

ORCID Number:
0000-0003-2362-3246

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Labour Law and Social Law

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
509 030 509

E-mail:
katarzyna.bomba@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: no data

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: no data

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): no data

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): no data

  • H-index (Google Scholar): no data

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Individual and collective labour law

  • Judicial enforcement proceedings

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    No

Additional remarks:
–

ORCID Number:
0000-0002-7757-020X

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Criminology and Forensic Science

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
601 370 137

E-mail:
monika.kotowska@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: 0

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 0

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 0

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 78

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 10

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: no

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Organized crime

  • Female criminality

  • Penitentiary issues

  • Contemporary forms of social pathology

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    No

Additional remarks:
(none)

ORCID Number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3092-1105

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Administrative Procedure and Administrative Judiciary

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
(not provided)

E-mail:
przemyslaw.krzykowski@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: (no data)

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: (no data)

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): (no data)

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 114

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 7

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 2

    • Supervisor of the doctoral dissertation of Mr. Andrzej Brzuza – defense on 28.09.2016

    • Supervisor of the doctoral dissertation of Ms. Ewa Dymek – defense on 13.09.2019

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: (no data)

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: no

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • General administrative procedure

  • Special types of administrative proceedings

  • Allocation and recovery of EU funds

  • Digitization of proceedings before administrative courts

  • Irregularities in the spending of EU funds

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    No

Additional remarks:
(none)

ORCID Number:
0000-0002-7067-4153

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science

Faculty:
Faculty of Law and Administration

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury

Phone:
603 891 552

E-mail:
stanislaw.bulajewski@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate profile:
Yes (URL not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Legal Sciences
(In the case of a PhD conducted in two disciplines, one outside the doctoral school may be indicated)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications WoS/Scopus: not applicable

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: not applicable

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): not applicable

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 254

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 4

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 0

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

  • Polish: yes

  • Foreign: no

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Constitutional law, administrative law

  • Local government law, supervision in local government, local government structure

Funding or Special Equipment Required for PhD Project Implementation:

  • Are there funds to cover research costs?
    No

  • Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
    Yes

Additional remarks:
None

Scientific Disciplines