Adam Bodnar

Adam Bodnar
Bodnar in 2023
Minister of Justice
Public Prosecutor General
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 December 2023
Prime MinisterDonald Tusk
Preceded byMarcin Warchoł
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 November 2023
Constituency44-Warsaw
7th Polish Ombudsman
In office
9 September 2015 – 15 July 2021
Preceded byIrena Lipowicz
Succeeded byMarcin Wiącek
Personal details
Born (1977-01-06) 6 January 1977 (age 47)
Trzebiatów, Poland
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Civic Coalition/Senate Pact 2023 (2023–present)
Children3
EducationUniversity of Warsaw
Central European University (Budapest)
AwardsThorolf Rafto Memorial Prize (2018)
Rule of Law Award (2019)
The Order of Legion of Honour (2020)

Adam Piotr Bodnar (born 6 January 1977) is a Polish lawyer, educator, human rights activist and politician who currently serves as Minister of Justice. He was the 7th Polish Ombudsman from 2015 until July 2021.[1]

Life and career

He was born into Polish–Ukrainian family. His Ukrainian father, as a child, was forcibly displaced from a village near Sanok to north-west Poland in Operation Vistula.[2] In 2000, he graduated in law from the University of Warsaw, and in 2001 he obtained a Master of Law degree in the field of comparative constitutional law from the Central European University in Budapest.[3] He also completed a course in European Law co-organized with Cambridge University as well as American Law co-organized with the University of Florida at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.[4] In 2006, he received a PhD degree from the University of Warsaw on the basis of his dissertation entitled Multi-level Citizenship in the European Constitutional Sphere.[5] In 2019, he obtained habilitation at his alma mater.

He worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Human Rights of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw as well as academic teacher at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.[6]

In the 1990s he collaborated with the anti-racist "Never Again" Association.[7] [8] Until 2004, he worked at the Weil, Gotshal & Manges law office. He then became a member of the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation (Polish: Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka). In 2008, he served as an expert at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) where he specialized in the observance of human rights in Poland.[4] In 2010, he was appointed deputy director of the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation. He also served as chairman of the Panoptykon Foundation as well as Director of the Zbigniew Hołda Association.[4] He was also a member of the board of directors of the UN Fund for Victims of Torture. In 2011 he was awarded with the Tolerance Prize by the Polish LGBT organizations and in 2013 he received a scholarship within the scope of German Marshall Memorial Fellowship programme.[3]

In 2015, he was appointed as the Polish Ombudsman after receiving endorsement of the Civic Platform, Democratic Left Alliance and Polish People's Party.[4] During his tenure he brought a number of local governments to court for their introduction of the controversial LGBT-free zones,[9] which met with criticism from the ruling conservative Law and Justice party.[10] In 2018, he was awarded the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for the promotion of the fundamental human rights of intellectual and political freedom.[11]

In 2017-2019 the Civil Rights Ombudsman Adam Bodnar supported the 'Let's Kick Racism Out Of Stadiums' tournament, organized by "Never Again" Association at the Pol'and'Rock Festival (also known as Polish Woodstock), the biggest open-air free music festival in Europe. Bodnar officially inaugurated the tournaments, personally refereed during the games and took part in the matches. He participated in a meeting organised by "Never Again" Association during the festival and spoke about the cases of homophobic violence in Poland.[12][13][14]

In 2019, he was awarded the Rule of Law Award conferred by the World Justice Project for his "outstanding efforts in strengthening the rule of law in difficult circumstances".[15] He dedicated the award to Karol Modzelewski.[16] The same year he received the Human Dignity Award from the Roland Berger Foundation; however, he declined the award motivating his decision by the Nazi past of the award founder's father.[17] In September 2020, he was awarded the French Order of Legion of Honour for guarding the civic rights and values in Poland.[18] Bodnar has appeared in leading universities' events including at Yale.[19]

Bodnar's five-year term of office expired in September 2020.[20] The two chambers of the Polish parliament (the Sejm and the Senate) could not agree on a successor.[20] On 15 April 2021, the Constitutional Tribunal issued a ruling that he should stay in office for at most three further months.[21][22][20]

In the 2023 parliamentary elections he ran as a Civic Coalition candidate (as part of Senate Pact 2023) for the Senate from the constituency no. 44. He received 628,442 votes and was elected senator.[23] In the same year he was appointed as the minister of justice in the Donald Tusk's cabinet.[24]

Selected publications

  • The Emerging Constitutional Law of the European Union. German and Polish Perspectives (co-author), Springer, Berlin 2003.
  • Introduction to Polish Law (co-author with Stanisław Frankowski), Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2005.
  • Przekonania moralne władzy publicznej a wolność jednostki. Materiały z konferencji z dnia 23 stycznia 2006 r. (co-author), Zakład Praw Człowieka. Wydział Prawa i Administracji. University of Warsaw, Warsaw 2007.
  • Obywatelstwo wielopoziomowe. Status jednostki w europejskiej przestrzeni konstytucyjnej, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warsaw 2008.
  • Orientacja seksualna i tożsamość płciowa. Aspekty prawne i społeczne (co-author), Instytut Wydawniczy EuroPrawo, Warsaw 2009.
  • Fakt vs. Opinia. Rozważania na kanwie sprawy Michnik vs. Zybertowicz. Materiały z konferencji zorganizowanej przez Obserwatorium Wolności Mediów w Polsce w dniu 26 marca 2009 roku, Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warsaw 2010.
  • Pr@wo w sieci. Korzyści czy zagrożenia dla wolności słowa? Materiały z konferencji zorganizowanej przez Obserwatorium Wolności Mediów w Polsce w dniu 11 maja 2009 roku (co-author), Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warsaw 2010.
  • Wolność słowa w prasie lokalnej. Prasa lokalna a normy ochrony konkurencji i pluralizm medialny. Materiały z konferencji zorganizowanej przez Obserwatorium Wolności Mediów w Polsce w dniu 29 października 2009 roku (co-author), Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warsaw 2010.
  • Postępowania dyscyplinarne w wolnych zawodach prawniczych – model ustrojowy i praktyka. Materiały z konferencji z dnia 5 marca 2012 r. (co-author), Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warsaw 2013.
  • Listy od przyjaciół. Księga pamiątkowa dla Profesora Wiktora Osiatyńskiego (editor), Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka and Open Society Foundations, Warsaw 2015.
  • Ochrona praw obywatelek i obywateli Unii Europejskiej. 20 lat – osiągnięcia i wyzwania na przyszłość (co-author), Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2018.
  • Wpływ Europejskiej Konwencji Praw Człowieka na funkcjonowanie biznesu (co-author), Wolters Kluwer, Warsaw 2016.
  • Wykonywanie orzeczeń Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka w Polsce. Wymiar instytucjonalny, Wolters Kluwer Polska, Warsaw 2018, ISBN 978-83-8124-542-5.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Senat zatwierdził wybór Adama Bodnara na nowego rzecznika praw obywatelskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2016-08-13. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  2. ^ "Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich Adam Bodnar". Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Adam Bodnar". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d "Lista kandydatów na Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich" (PDF). Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  5. ^ "dr hab. Adam Piotr Bodnar". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Pracownicy". Archived from the original on 2020-05-11. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Che Guevara z korporacji". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Adam Bodnar: Wykształcenie, partia, rodzina, RPO. Kim jest senator KO?". 12 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Bodnar nie odpuszcza ws. uchwał anty-LGBT. Skarży wyrok sądu". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Posłowie skrajnie oceniają pracę RPO Adama Bodnara. PiS i Kukiz'15 krytykują, PO i Nowoczesna uważają za wzór". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  11. ^ "The 2018 Rafto Prize to Ombudsman Adam Bodnar". Archived from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Peace, Love, and Football at Polish Woodstock Festival".
  13. ^ "Music, Football, and Refugee Rights".
  14. ^ "International Debates on Human Rights Hosted by 'Never Again' at Pol'and'rock Festival".
  15. ^ "Dr Adam Bodnar i Biuro Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich uhonorowani prestiżową Nagrodą Praworządności przez World Justice Project". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  16. ^ "Adam Bodnar z nagrodą za obronę praworządności. Zadedykował ją Karolowi Modzelewskiemu". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  17. ^ "Bodnar nie przyjmie nagrody Bergera. Ojciec fundatora był nazistą". Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  18. ^ "Adam Bodnar kawalerem francuskiego Orderu Legii Honorowej" (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  19. ^ "Autocratic Legalism in Europe". October 16, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17.
  20. ^ a b c Zalan, Eszter (16 April 2021). "Polish court pushes out critical ombudsman". EUobserver. Brussels. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  21. ^ "Polish court rules ombudsman must leave office at term end". washingtonpost.com. 15 April 2021. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  22. ^ "Poland's top court hobbles human rights advocate". 15 April 2021.
  23. ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w 2023 r." wybory.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  24. ^ Tilles, Daniel (2023-12-12). "Incoming Polish PM Tusk presents cabinet and programme ahead of confidence vote". Notes From Poland. Retrieved 2023-12-14.

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