The Law and Administration Faculty About the department
Department of Diplomatic Law and Public Diplomacy
Department Staff:
Professor Mariusz Muszyński – Head of the Department
Szymon Pawłowski (PhD) – Assistant Professor
Katarzyna Cichos (PhD) – Assistant Professor responsible for administration of the Department, contact: k.cichos@uksw.edu.pl
Kamil Strzępek (PhD) – Assistant Professor
Adam Buczkowski – PhD Candidate
Mariusz Muszyński is Associate Professor of Law at the Law and Administration Faculty of Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Professor Muszyński holds doctor with habilitation and Master of Laws degrees from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Professor Muszyński specialises in public law, both international and domestic, including European Union Law, as well as in Polish and German constitutional law. Professor Muszyński is the author and co-author of nearly 200 scientific and press publications. He published in Poland and abroad, among others in the USA, Germany, Ukraine. Many of the publications concern the functioning of the state in legal environment. Professor Muszyński is the editor-in-chief of the Polish Review of International Relations yearbook and member of scientific councils and editorial committees of many scientific journals including: Public Law Quarterly (Kwartalnik Prawa Publicznego), Reasearch Journal of Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw (Zeszyty Prawnicze UKSW), Ius Novum, Polish Review of International and European Law. Professor Muszyński is member of the International Law Association.
Professor Muszyński gives lectures since 2002. Moreover, Professor Muszyński was employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in legal positions, including: the Head of the Legal Department of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Berlin; the Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Polish-German Cooperation; the Representative of the Government of the Republic of Poland in the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”. Professor Muszyński was member of the Legislative Council to the Prime Minister; member of the State Tribunal, and on 2 December 2015 elected by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland as Judge to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in which he was appointed the Vice-President. From April 2016 onwards Professor Muszyński is deputy member (substitute member) of the Venice Commission.
Szymon Pawłowski is the Deputy Director of the Institute of International Law, European Union Law and International Relations. Szymon Pawłowski LL.M. (Cologne); PhD; legal advisor; Assistant Professor at the Department of Diplomatic Law and Public Diplomacy in the Faculty of Law and Administration of Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw; chief specialist in the Parliamentary Research Office of the Chancellery of the Sejm; Award winner of a competition organised by the President of the Republic of Poland “Polish challenges: the state? Identity? Development?” for the best PhD thesis; Phd thesis “European System of Central Banks in the constitutional system of public authority of the European Union, Poland and Germany” was awarded in the Economy and Economic Policy Category; DAAD scholarship holder; Rechtszentrum für Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Wilhelm Westhaus Stiftung; Research Laboratory of the European University Institute in Florence (summer research); author of publications on constitutional law, central baking; financial market supervision, and the right to social security; coordinator of the School of German Law established as part of the Institute.
Katarzyna Cichos holds Phd and Master of Laws degrees from the Faculty of Law and Administration of University of Silesia in Katowice; participated in the Socrates Erasmus-programme studying at the University of Aarhus; participated in schools and courses organised by the European University Institute and Central European University. In the years 2014-2016 implemented the grant of the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM) entitled “EU development cooperation policy”. Legal issues which resulted in the publication of a monograph with the same title. She specialises in international law and European law, including EU foreign policy, EU internal market freedoms and legal aspects of sustainable development.
Kamil Strzępek holds PhD, legal advisor and academic scholar positions. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Diplomatic Law and Public Diplomacy in the Faculty of Law and Administration of Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw and Assistant Lawyer at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. He previously held posts at the Supreme Administrative Court in Poland and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He holds Master of Laws degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and PhD degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw. Author of publications on constitutional law, administrative law, European Union law and human rights law. Languages: Polish, English and French.
The Department conducts research in international and European law and the theory and practice of public and business diplomacy.
The research interests of the Department’s Staff include in particular:
- international public law
- diplomatic and consular law
- economic diplomacy
- EU law
- EU’s foreign policy, development policy and legal aspects of sustainable development
- Polish foreign policy
- human rights law
The Department coordinates the organisation of the School of German Law.
Didactics:
Graduate Seminar.
Courses: public international law, legal system of EU, Common foreign and security policy of the EU, diplomatic and consular Law, public international law – basic, foreign policy of Poland, Die rechtliche Grundlagen des politischen Systeme der BRD, Economic Diplomacy, Das politisches System in Austria, Diplomatic correspondence, diplomatic protocol, human rights law etc.