Current projects
Project „Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective (MELA)”
The project aims at analyzing memory laws, which are affect society in various and often controversial ways. They sometimes impose criminal penalties on speech or conduct deemed offensive to the plight of national heroes or tragic victims. In that punitive form, memory laws impose limits on democratic freedoms of expression, association, the media, or on scholarly research.
Source of funding: Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
Agreement number: HERA.15.94
Webpage of the project: http://melaproject.org/
Principal Investigator: dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias
Research Assistants: dr Grażyna Baranowska, mgr Anna Wójcik
The project is realized in cooperation with research teams from: Queen Mary University (London, Great Britain), T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague, Netherlands)), University of Bologna (Bologne, Italy)
Duration: 2016 – 2019
Project „The impact of universal human rights standards on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. A critical analysis.”
The main research objective of the proposed project is to examine the functioning of the interpretation rules in the adjudication practice of the ECtHR with respect to human rights agreements concluded under the auspices of the United Nations.
Source of funding: Narodowe Centrum Nauki, OPUS
Project number: 2016/21/B/HS5/02057
Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. Roman Wieruszewski
Contributors: dr Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, dr Grażyna Baranowska, mgr Anna Hernandez-Połczyńska
Duration: 2017 – 2019
Completed projects
Project “Enforced disappearances in Europe. Development of legal standards”
The goal of the project was the analysis of the development of international standards regarding enforced disappearances in Europe and addressing the issue of how well these standards meet the victims’ needs. In effect of the project a monograph was published by C.H. Beck (2017)
Monograph
Source of funding: Narodowe Centrum Nauki, PRELUDIUM
Project number: 2013/11/N/HS5/04044
Project description on the NCN webpage: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?s=10158
Principal Investigator: dr Grażyna Baranowska
Duration: 2014 – 2016
Projekt The UN Human Rights Protection Mechanisms – A Systemic Analysis
The goal of the project was to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms functioning within the framework of this system, to explore to what extent these mechanisms are coherent and to consider their impact on the protection of human rights at national levels. In effect of the project a monograph edited by R. Wieruszewskiego was published by C.H. Beck (2017).
Monograph
Mechanizmy ochrony praw człowieka w ramach ONZ. Analiza systemowa
Source of funding: Narodowe Centrum Nauki, OPUS
Project number: 2012/07/B/HS5/03727
Project description on the NCN webpage: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?s=7641
Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. Roman Wieruszewski
Contributors: prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Kędzia, dr Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, dr Anna Natalia Schulz, dr Grażyna Baranowska
Duration: 2013 – 2017
Project “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – a Commentary”
The goal of the project was the preparation of the first in the Polish literature legal commentary to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The effect of the project is a publication edited by R. Wieruszewski was published by Wolters Kluwer (2012).
Monograph
Międzynarodowy pakt praw obywatelskich (osobistych) i politycznych. Komentarz
Source of funding: Komitet Badań Naukowych
Project number: 1935/B/H03/2008/34
Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. Roman Wieruszewski
Contributors: prof. dr hab. Leszek Wiśniewski, dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, dr Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, dr Witold Sobczak
Duration: 2008 – 2012
