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Poznan Human Rights Centre - Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Staff

Roman Wieruszewski

Professor of Legal Sciences. Employee of the Institute of Legal Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences since 1975. Current positions: director of the Poznan Human Rights Centre, vice-chairman of Scientific Council of the Institute of Legal Studies, professor of Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, member of the Polish Refugee Board, research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, OSCE Human Rights Expert, member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Warsaw, member of the Editorial Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, member of the Editorial Board of the Polish quarterly "Legal Studies". Visiting professor and lecturer at Marbourg, Mainz and Bochum universities in Germany and numerous Polish universities (Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Torun).
From 1992 to 1995 Head of the Former Yugoslavia unit in the UN Centre for Human Rights in Geneva, from 1996 to 1998 Chief of Mission of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Field Operation in the Former Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, from 1998 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2006 Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (Vice-chairman from 2002 to 2004).
Field of research: international protection of human rights, constitutional law.

The main publications:

  • Equality of Men and Women In Poland , Poznan 1975 (In Polish), Japanese edition, Tokyo 1981,
  • Constitutional Form of the Principles of Equality and Nondiscrimination in Poland Against Comparative Background, in: Comparative Constitutional Law (M. P. Singh ed.), Delhi 1989,
  • Application of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law. Individual Complaints, in: Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (F. Kalshoven, Y. Sandoz ed.), Nijhoff 1989,
  • National Implementation of Human Rights, in: Human Rights in a Changing East/West Perspective, (A. Rosas, I. Helgesen ed.) London 1990,
  • Human Rights. Legal Model (editor and co-author), Ossolineum 1990 (in Polish),
  • International Response to the Human Rights Violations in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, in: Polish Yearbook of the International Law 1991 - 1992,
  • Human Rights and Current Constitutional Debates in Central and Eastern European Countries, in: The Strength of Diversity (A. Rosas, I. Helgesen ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992,
  • Principle of Equality and Nondiscrimination in the Light of Jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee, in: Państwo I Prawo, No 4 2000 (in Polish),
  • History, Content and Relationship to Polish Law, in: Polish Yearbook of International Law, 2001, t. 25,
  • The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights - History, Content and Relationship to Polish Law, in: 25 Polish Yearbook of International Law 2001,
  • The European Union Citizenship and Protection of Human Rights, in: Prawo Europejskie i Międzynarodowe, No 1 2002 (in Polish),
  • Human Rights Committee and State Reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Optional Protocol, in: Law, Institutions, Politics in a Process of Globalization (J. Halizak, R. Kuźniar ed.), Warsaw 2003 (in Polish),
  • The Role of Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures in a Process of Strengthening of Democratization, in: For Human Dimension of Law, Toruń 2004 (in Polish),
  • Oddziaływanie prawa międzynarodowego i prawa Unii Europejskiej na konstytucyjny status jednostki w RP, in: K. Wojtowicz (red.), Otwarcie Konstytucji RP na prawo międzynarodowe i procesy integracyjne, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa 2006,
  • Pozycja prawna cudzoziemca, azylanta i uchodźcy - założenia konstytucyjne i praktyka prawna, in: L. Wiśniewski (red.), Wolności i prawa jednostki oraz ich gwarancje w praktyce, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa 2006,
  • The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Poland in: The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area, Backgroundpaper 2006, OSCE ODIHR 2006 (co-author),
  • Międzynarodowe sądownictwo w dziedzinie praw człowieka - potrzeba reform, in: W. Czapliński (red.), Prawo w XXI wieku. Księga pamiątkowa 50-lecia Instytutu Nauk Prawnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2006,
  • ONZ-owski system ochrony praw człowieka - bilans dokonań, in: J. Symonides (red.), Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych - bilans i perspektywy, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2006.
  • Zakres wpływu międzynarodowych organów kontrolnych na status prawny jednostki w Polsce - wybrane problemy [w:] M. Andrzejewski, L. Kociucki, M. Łączkowska, A. N. Schulz (red.), Księga Jubileuszowa Profesora Tadeusza Smyczyńskiego, Toruń 2008 [współautor],
  • Rola i znaczenie Karty Praw Podstawowych Unii Europejskiej dla ochronypraw człowieka, Przegląd Sejmowy 2008/2
  • Cele reformy ONZ-towskiego systemu ochrony praw człowieka i jej podstawowe założenia [w:] Europa w poszukiwaniu tożsamości. Między prawem, filozofią a polityką, W. Sobczak (red.), Gniezno 2008.