Meet our Team
We are based at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Our team consists of specialists with expertise in i.a. theory and philosophy of law, law & cognitive science, empirical legal research, intellectual property law, data law, law & technology, law & AI, sociology of law, contemporary Islamic law, psychology and ethics.
Awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science (2016), Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2018-2020), Polish Patent Office (2016). PI of several research projects funded by the Polish National Science Center (2012, 2017), DAAD (2012-2013), Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017).
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Her research is focused on contemporary islamic law, bioethics in Islam, critical legal geography, and legal Orientalism. She authored a book, “Contemporary Dynamics of Islamic Law regarding bioethical problems”. She was a PI in research project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (“Diamond Grant” 2014-2018). Currently she is an investigator in ongoing projects: “EMPATHY: Let’s Empower, Participate and Teach Each Other to Hype Empathy. Challenging Discourse about Islam and Muslims in Poland”, financed by the European Union (CERV-2021-EQUAL) and “Political Dimension of Violence AgainstCities: Urbicide in Palestine—A Case Study”, financed by National Center for Science. Awardee of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) scholarship.
Ewa is a science communicator and hosts two podcasts: „Reorient” focused on cultural studies, and Future Law Lab’s “Law of the Future”.
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He holds PhDs in law (2018) from Jagiellonian University and philosophy (2020) from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow. He has authored 3 book monographs and more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed chapters. His works were published in international journals, including the European Journal of Criminology; Ethics and Information Technology; International Journal of Social Robotics; AI & Society; Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy; Science and Engineering Ethics; European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice; Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He received a research grant from the National Science Center in Poland. He was awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science (2022-2025).
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His research interests encompass the intersections of law, technology, and social justice. In particular, Pałka’s interested in private law, consumer law, data law, law’s automation, and legal aspects of AI, virtual objects and interoperability. Before joining the Jagiellonian University in January 2021, Pałka was Yale’s Fellow in Private Law (2018-2020), and a Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (2016-2018). He holds a PhD (’17) and an LLM (’14) from the EUI, and an MA (’13) from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Blogs at przemysLAW.technology/
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Her research is focused on migrations, multiculturalism, and their relation to criminal law. She’s currently preparing a PhD thesis about Polish policies of multiculturalism, with a specific stress on aspects connected with criminal law and criminology. She’s also interested in anti-discrimination law and the phenomenon of criminalization in its social aspect, as well as the policies of equality and inclusivity in academia.