Courses in registration (in Polish) Faculty of Law and Administration - for incoming students 2200-2022-PR-ERA

The study comprises of certain selection of more important subjects concerning the principle of uniformity, interpretive methodology of the CISG provisions, filling in gaps, default rules, the importance of trade usages in CISG rule application, the importance of notice, the burden of proof, the formation of sale contract (writing requirements, offer and acceptance rules), the obligations of buyers, the obligations of sellers, the common obligations of buyers and sellers, the breach of contract, damages, excuse and preservation. The lecture’s schedule includes a number of references to municipal legal systems and jurisdiction of some leading countries of common and civil law tradition as good as to the uniform model law (the Principles of European Contract Law, The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts) in the context of harmonization of the European codified civil law systems.

This course is designed to acquaint foreign students with general institution of Polish civil law (general part of the civil code). Emphasis is placed on analyzing the legal provisions as well as their practical application. Students’ familiarity with provisions of foreign laws will be helpful to compare systems in different countries.

This course is designed to acquaint foreign students with general principles of the Law of Obligations (contract and tort law). Emphasis is placed on analyzing the legal provisions as well as their practical application. Students’ familiarity with provisions of foreign laws will be helpful to compare systems in different countries.

This course examines a selection of company law topics in a comparative context, drawing in particular on the laws of the UK, Germany, France, and the United States. At the beginning of each class, the students will be introduced to definitions and concepts to be considered in depth during the class. This will be followed by a presentation of relevant national rules from different jurisdictions in order to allow for comparison of how different legal systems deal with the same issues. Against this background, the final part of each class will be devoted to discussing comparative advantageousness and effectiveness of the solutions analysed. Participants are expected to contribute to the discussions.

This course is designed to enjoy the comparative analysis that helps to see and understand the differences in criminal justice. What makes them. What do they depend on? How far does the country's criminal justice depend on the country's political system, history, respect for human rights? What we name as crime, how we approach it, and what kind of punishment and why we applied; this is not just what criminal justice is about. It provides us with a better understanding of the role criminal justice has when politics, economy, social life, and quality of life are concerned. Thanks to the international audience we will share our experiences and learn from each other.

Our primary focus will be on prisons and their alternative especially in the era of globalization; gender and criminal justice; LGBTQ+ community and criminal justice, sexual offenses, and violence – an international comparative perspective, basic rules behind specific criminal justice.

Classes are aimed at presenting - in the light of the 1997 Constitution of the Republic of Poland and some other normative acts - general principles of Polish political system, individuals’ fundamental rights, freedoms and obligations, as well as the system of public institutions, their competences and mutual relations.

This course covers the organizational, practical and legal aspects of criminal investigations deploying examples of specific issues in this area. It is the interactive course that combines the theory with a number of practical exercises.

The lectures present the historical foundations of European legal identity from the Roman Empire to the European Union. In view of the multiple character of this identity the stress lies on the distinction between the common law (British Isles) and the civil law countries (the continent). Within the latter area the gradually disappearing distinction between Eastern and Western Europe is dealt with.

The subject of the course is the substantive law of the European Union; and in particular the fundamental freedoms of the internal market as well as selected issues of the competition law.

The course is based on analysis of the Treaty provisions and other legal instruments, the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and selected recent literature

The course is dedicated to the European legal history with particular focus on the criminal and public law (administrative and constitutional). The basic perspective of the course is legal one but with interdisciplinary approach including social, economic and political contexts. Legal tradition regarding private law will not be covered, however, as a division into public and private law is a product of the modern age, some topics will be connected to the matter that is traditionally recognized as a part of private law (for exemple anglo-saxonic common law).

(in Polish) a legal frame in international law concerning international trade and investments. The most important part concerns international trade law including World Trade Organization and its legal system as well as regional trade agreements, That part includes mainly regulations concerning trade in goods and services, intellectual property rights but also institutional and organizational aspects of the WTO law as well as dispute settlement. The lecture will also cover a problem of developing states and the EU as a member of the WTO and party of regional trade agreements. An important part of international economic law is investment law. During lecture we concentrate on investment law of the EU.