Poznań Human Rights Centre
Assistant Professor
email: anna.w.wojcik@gmail.com; a.wojcik@inp.pan.pl
Doctor of law, Assistant Professor at the Poznań Center for Human Rights ILS PAS.
Research Interests:
- human rights law,
- European system of human rights protection,
- European mechanisms of rule of law protection,
- de-democratization and re-democratization,
- freedom of expression,
- memory rights.
Employment:
2022– Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (assistant professor). On leave until 30 September 2024.
2022-23 – Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (post-doctoral researcher in a project MEMOCRACY funded by Volkswagen Stiftung)
2019-2021 – Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (assistant researcher in Constitutional and European Studies Department)
2016-2019 – Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (assistant researcher in international research consortium Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective (MELA) funded by Humanities in European Research Area https://melaproject.org/)
Research stays abroad:
1 October 2023-30 September 2024 – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung post-doctoral research fellowship
1 January 2022 – 30 April 2022 – Central European University Democracy Institute, Budapest, Re:Constitution Fellowship
1 May 2022 – 30 June 2022 – Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, Re:Constitution Fellowship
1 April 2021 – 30 April 2022 – German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin Rethink.CEE fellowship (non-resident)
16 January 2018 – 31 January 2018 – T.M.C. Asser Institute, the Hague, junior visiting researcher
Publications (selected):
- Wójcik, A., & Rhein-Fischer, P. (2023). Introduction to the Special Section ‘Memory Laws and the Rule of Law’. European Constitutional Law Review, 19(4), 591-601.
- Rhein-Fischer, P., & Wójcik, A. (2023). The Politicisation of Constitutional Review of Memory Laws. European Constitutional Law Review, 19(4), 664-689.
- Wójcik, A. (2023). Memory Laws, Rule of Law, and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Poland. The Journal of Illiberalism Studies, 3(3), 71-87.
- Wójcik, A. (2023). Using Financial Tools to Protect the Rule of Law in Poland in: A. Södersten, E. Hercock (eds.), The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and Solutions (Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies), 46-52.
- Grabowska-Moroz, B., & Wójcik, A. (2021). Reframing LGBT rights advocacy in the context of the rule of law backsliding: The case of Poland. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 7(4), 85-103.
- Wójcik, A. (2019). Reckoning with the communist past in Poland thirty years after the regime change in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights. Polish Yearbook of International Law, (39), 135-157.
- Belavusau, U., & Wójcik, A. (2018). La criminalisation de l’expression historique en Pologne: la loi mémorielle de 2018. Archives de politique criminelle, (1), 175-188.
- Wójcik, A. (2019). Prezentacja przetworzonego Znaku Polski Walczącej w ramach zgromadzeń publicznych, Państwo i Prawo, 12, 24–38
- Wójcik, A. (2019). European Court of Human Rights, freedom of expression and debating the past and history. Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego i Porównawczego, 17, 33-46.
- Gliszczyńska-Grabias, A., Baranowska, G., & Wójcik, A. (2018). Law-secured narratives of the past in Poland in light of International human rights law standards. Polish Yearbook of International Law, 38, 59-72.
