The Polish Law School at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University was established on November 9, 2001 by signing a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2001-2010, the Faculty of Law of the Vilnius University conducted an intensive programme of Polish and EU law (in Polish language), intended not only for law students, but also practicing lawyers, as well as students of other faculties who were interested in Polish and EU law. Graduates of the Polish and EU Law Program were awarded certificates issued by the two universities. Today, the Polish Law School coordinates cooperation between university teachers and researchers at the Faculty of Law of the Vilnius University and the partners from Poland.
Activities
- March 13-14, 2024 a meeting – discussion with dr. Tomasz Lachowski Research Fellow at the Department of International Law and International Relations in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz. The visit was organised by the Ukrainian Law Centre of the VU Law Faculty. More information.
- March 5, 2024 The Interdisciplinary Lithuanian and Polish symposium “Between law and literature. Czesław Miłosz”. The inspiration for the joint Lithuanian-Polish symposium dedicated to law and literature was the resolution of the Senate of the Republic of Poland declaring 2024 the year of Czesław Miłosz. Czeslaw Milosz received his legal education from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the Stefan Batory University in 1934. The welcome speech was given by the Ambassador of Poland to Lithuania Dr. Konstanty Radziwiłł and Dr. Haroldas Šinkūnas the Dean of the Law Faculty. Speakers at the symposium were Dr Tomasz Snarski, advocate, poet and lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, and Birutė Jonuškaitė, Chairwoman of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union. Symposium was moderated by dr. Ilona Michailovič. More information is on Facebook and here.
- February 6-8, 2024 Dr. Ilona Michailovič’s visit to the Center for Foreign Law Schools (OKSPO) of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a meeting on cooperation with the Head of the center prof. Piotr Szwedo.
- December 5-9, 2023 Twinning program of the European university Arqus alliance. Ignas Kromerovas, Gabrielė Garbauskaitė, Austėja Jatulytė, Danielė Gustaitė and Erika Čaikinaitė, third-year undergraduate students of criminology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University, together with dr. Ilona Mihailovič visited the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław during the implementation of the Arqus Twinning-funded project Mediation as a tool for constructive conflict resolution using community-based reconciliation approach. The project was organized and coordinated by Dr. Ilona Michailovič and Professor Dr hab. Magdalena Tabernacka. Article about the Arqus visit: Magdalena Tabernacka, Arqus w praktyce. Bulletin of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław, 1(30)2024, p. 9-10.
- November 30, 2023 Discussion “16 days of activism against gender-based violence: the impact of gender neutrality on Lithuanian and Polish societies”. Speakers: Dr. Magdalena Grzyb from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Dr. Zuzana Vasiliauskaitė a legal psychologist and international expert on the prevention of violence against women, and Agata Szypulska a representative of EIGE (European Institute for Gender Equality). Discussion was organized and moderated by Dr. Ilona Michailovič. More information.
- November 24, 2023 a meeting-discussion with Prof. Dr hab. Magdalena Bainczyk, Institute for Western Affairs in Poznań and professor at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Academy in Kraków (with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Indrė Isokaitė-Valužė and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilona Michailovič).
- November 10, 2023. Online discussion “Parliamentary elections in Poland and their consequences for the EU from the point of view of constitutional law and political science“. Speakers: Prof. Dr hab. Monika Florczak-Wątor (Department of Constitutional Law, Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Prof. Dr hab. Renata Mieńkowska-Norkieniė (Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw), Dr. Mariusz Antonowicz (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University). Discussion was organized and moderated by Dr. Ilona Michailovič. More information.
- June 1–3, 2023, the 10th international interdisciplinary scientific conference „The place of Vilnius and Warsaw in the processes of regional and Euro-Atlantic (dis)integration – progress, challenges, prospects”, at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the House of Polish Culture in Vilnius. The Faculty of Law of Vilnius University was a conference partner. Speakers: prof. Jan Widacki, former Ambassador of Poland to Lithuania, and Prof. Dr hab. Monika Płatek professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw together with Dr. Ilona Michailovič. More information.
- January, 2022 the online discussion with Dr. Dobrochna Ossowska-Salamonowicz on issues of constitutional jurisprudence and actualities of the harmonization of the polish law with the EU law, moderated by PhD student Kęstutis Platūkis and Dr. Ilona Michailovič.
- May 7-9, 2019 The Scientific Seminar of PhD students of criminal law of the Vilnius University Faculty of Law and the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, in Zakopane. More information.
Contacts
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilona Michailovič
Head of the Polish Law School
ilona.michailovic@tf.vu.lt
Saulėtekio av. 9, 1st block
Vilnius