Biography

Andrzej Michał Bisztyga '64

Lawyer, constitutional law specialist, Ph.D. in Law with habilitation, Associate Professor at the University of Zielona Góra and the Wojciech Korfanty Upper Silesian Academy in Katowice.

In 1989, he graduated in law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia. His master's thesis was titled "The Institution of Referendum in the Contemporary World." In 1996, he obtained a Ph.D. in Law based on a dissertation supervised by Eugeniusz Zwierzchowski, entitled "The European Court of Human Rights." In 2009, he received a habilitation degree based on his academic achievements and his habilitation dissertation titled "The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Legal Order of the United Kingdom."

In 2009, he became a professor at the Wojciech Korfanty Upper Silesian School of Commerce in Katowice (GWSH). From 2011 to 2012, he served as Associate Professor at the University of Silesia in the Department of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration. He was Vice-Rector of GWSH from 2012 to 2014. In 2014, he became a professor at the University of Zielona Góra (UZ) at the Faculty of Law and Administration. There, he headed the Department of Political Systems and Human Rights. In 2015, he became Head of the Department of Law and Administration at GWSH. In 2018, he was appointed Head of the Department of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration at UZ.

He is the author of numerous publications in the field of constitutional law and human rights, as well as legal opinions and expert reports prepared for the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice, the Department of Strategy and Policy Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Legal and Adjudication Department of the Supreme Audit Office, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Legislative Committee of the Sejm, the Rules, Ethics and Senatorial Affairs Committee of the Senate, members of parliament and senators, the "Solidarity" Miners' Trade Union, and the Employers of the Republic of Poland. He served as a member of the Advisory Council for Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002–2004), a legal expert for the Senate, and an expert for law firms. He has participated in approximately 80 national, foreign, and international scientific conferences and seminars. He is a member of about 10 scientific councils and editorial boards of legal academic journals.

Research Interests

• Individual freedoms and rights and their guarantees
• The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its impact on national legal systems
• Constitutional systems of European Union member states
• Constitutional law of the European Union
• Constitutional regulation of public finance
• The constitutional system of the Republic of Kazakhstan