EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Kazimierz Zgryzek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Jarosław Zagrodnik (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Cynthia Alkon, Texas A&M University, United States
Matjaž Ambrož, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Michael Bohlander, Durham University, United Kingdom
Amalia Calderón Lozano, Colegio de Abogados de Sevilla, Spain
Matthew Dyson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Clifford S. Fishman, The Catholic University of America, United States
Justyna Karaźniewicz, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Monika Klejnowska, University of Rzeszów, Poland
Violetta Konarska-Wrzosek, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Damjan Korošec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ewa Kruk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland
Henryk Malevski, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Jamil Mujuzi, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
James Oleson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jerzy Skorupka, University of Wrocław, Poland
Sławomir Steinborn, University of Gdańsk, Poland
Dariusz Świecki, University of Łódź, Poland
David Weisburd, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Irene Wieczorek, Durham University, United Kingdom
Paweł Wiliński, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Professor Kazimierz Marszał (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) and Professor Tadeusz Widła (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) are remembered for their lasting contributions.

Jarosław Zagrodnik

He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in 1998. In the same year, he commenced doctoral studies at his home faculty. At the same time, he began judicial training within the jurisdiction of the present Regional Court in Katowice, which he completed by passing the judicial examination in 2001.

In 2003, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “Subsidiary Indictment in Criminal Proceedings”, supervised by Professor Kazimierz Marszał. On 1 February 2004, he was employed as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia, a position he continued to hold also after obtaining the postdoctoral degree (habilitation). The basis for the award of the habilitation degree (25 March 2014) was the habilitation dissertation entitled “The Model of Interaction between Preparatory Proceedings and Main Proceedings in Criminal Procedure”. As of 1 September 2017, he was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Silesia.

From 1 February 2007 to 30 September 2019, he served as Head of Part-Time Law Studies, and following the establishment of the Entrepreneurship programme, also as Head of Full-Time Studies in that field. For a period of one year, until the end of September 2020, he served as Director of the Law Programme at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.

In the years 2008–2012, he served as Chair of the Disciplinary Appeals Committee for Students.

Since 2012, he has been systematically cooperating with the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisers in Opole; since 2018, with the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisers in Katowice and the Regional Chamber of Legal Advisers in Kraków.

In the period from 1 October 2019 to 31 December 2019, he completed a research internship at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław.

Since November 2015, he has been practising as a legal adviser, specialising in criminal cases, economic criminal cases, fiscal criminal cases, and cases concerning financial risks of collective entities.

Since January 2016, he has acted as an expert of the National Council of Legal Advisers; a permanent commentator on legislative changes in the field of criminal law, criminal procedure, substantive and procedural fiscal criminal law, misdemeanour proceedings, disciplinary liability, and liability of collective entities for offences punishable by law.

Since 2019, he has been a member of the Social Codification Commission established at the First Congress of Polish Lawyers by the governing bodies of the professional self-government representing the judiciary (Iustitia) and the bar associations of advocates and legal advisers.

He is the academic supervisor of the Criminal Procedure Law Scientific Circle “Iustitia”.

Since 2012 and to the present, he has served as Disciplinary Ombudsman in cases concerning doctoral students. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Disciplinary Committee for Academic Teachers.

He is a co-editor of the journal Problemy Prawa Karnego.

He is a reviewer for numerous academic journals.

He serves as Disciplinary Ombudsman to the Minister of Science.

For his scientific and teaching activities, he has been repeatedly awarded by the Rector Magnificus of the University of Silesia.

He is a member of international committees, such as:

• Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (Durham University)
• Northumbria University

The research interests of Professor Jarosław Zagrodnik focus primarily on issues of criminal procedure, fiscal criminal law and procedure, disciplinary liability, and problems of criminal compliance, including issues of liability of collective entities for acts prohibited under penalty of law.

He is the author of more than 100 scholarly and academic-didactic publications, including the English-language monograph “Principles of Polish Criminal Procedure”.

Professor Jarosław Zagrodnik was included among the 50 most influential lawyers in Poland in 2021 according to the ranking published by Gazeta Prawna.

By decision of the National Public Prosecutor, Dariusz Korneluk, dated 13 June 2024, Professor Jarosław Zagrodnik was appointed as a member of the Programme Council of the monthly journal “Prokuratura i Prawo”.

Kazimierz Zgryzek

He graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in 1974. In the same year, he commenced employment, first as a trainee assistant and subsequently as an assistant in the Department of Criminalistics of the same university.

In 1979, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “The Influence of Schizophrenia on Handwriting Patterns”, written under the supervision of Professor Zdzisław Kegel.

In 1980, as an Assistant Professor, he began working in the Department of Criminal Procedure Law, and later in the Chair of Criminal Procedure Law, headed by Professor Kazimierz Marszał. Under his supervision, he prepared his habilitation dissertation entitled “Proceedings Concerning the Application of Security Measures in Polish Criminal Procedure” (Katowice, 1989).

The research interests of Professor Kazimierz Zgryzek concern primarily criminal procedure law, in particular the application of security measures in Polish criminal proceedings, expert evidence from psychiatric experts, and issues of the right to defence in criminal proceedings. His publications also include references to substantive criminal law and juvenile law.

For two terms (1993–1999), he served as Vice-Dean for Full-Time Studies, and subsequently, also for two terms (1999–2005), he served as Dean of the Faculty. He was a member of the University of Silesia Senate and participated in the work of numerous university and faculty committees. He chaired the Senate Statutory Committee.

He served as Chair of the University “Solidarity” Trade Union Committee (1991–1994).

For four terms, he served as Deputy Chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Silesian Chamber of Physicians, as well as of the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health in Sosnowiec. He is currently Deputy Chair of the Bioethics Committee at the University of Technology in Katowice.

He currently serves as Head of the Criminal Procedure Law Team at the Institute of Law and Administration. For several terms, he served as disciplinary ombudsman for student disciplinary offences and for disciplinary offences committed by academic teachers. He was also Chair of the Appeals Disciplinary Committee for Student Disciplinary Cases at the University of Silesia.

For three terms, he headed the University Electoral Commission. He served as an expert of the Health Committee of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland during its 2nd term, and of the Special Committee of the Sejm during its 3rd and 4th terms. During his term as Dean, a new faculty building was constructed.

He is the author of more than 100 scholarly works, including works popularising law.

Together with Professor Piotr Hofmański and Supreme Court Judge Elżbieta Sadzik, he co-authored the Commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure, in the “Large Commentaries” series (4 editions, 3 volumes), which has enjoyed significant interest from both doctrine and case law.

He also contributed to the Commentary on the Act on the Professions of Physician and Dentist (2nd edition, ed. L. Ogiegło). He is a co-author of a textbook on criminal procedure, initially edited by Professor Kazimierz Marszał, and later edited (and co-edited) by Dr hab. Prof. of the University of Silesia Jarosław Zagrodnik.

He is co-editor of the journal “Problemy Prawa Karnego”.

He has participated as supervisor or reviewer in numerous doctoral and habilitation proceedings.

He obtained the academic title of Professor in 2014.