Department of Criminal Law
Professor
email: hkuczynska@gmail.com
Professor of legal sciences. Member of the Office of Studies and Analyses (Biuro Studiów i Analiz) of the Supreme Court in the Criminal Chamber. Since 2005. – Assistant judge in the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court.
In 2011, she was awarded third prize in a competition organised by the Foundation for the Promotion of European Law for her book entitled „Wspólny obszar postępowania karnego w prawie Unii Europejskiej”.
Lecturer at the European School of Law and Administration (EWSP) from 2014 to 2018. She taught: lecture and seminar Criminal Procedure, lecture European Criminal Law, specialisation lecture International Criminal Law – on the basis of an employment contract (200h of salary). Since 2016 head of the Department of Criminal Law at the EWSP.
In 2016 – judge in The ICC Moot Court Competition 2016 – a member of the Judges Panel for the written portion of the Competition.
In 2017 – expert of the National Science Centre in the Sonata and Opus competitions.
Research interests:
- international criminal law;
- criminal procedure;
- comparative criminal law;
- European Union criminal law.
- „The Accusation Model before the International Criminal Court. A Study of Convergence between the Legal Systems” – Head and contractor. Project funded by the National Science Centre, implemented in 2013-2015.
- „Cooperation with the International Criminal Court” – Contractor. Project carried out in 2013-2014, within the framework of an earmarked grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for financing the scientific development of young scientists and doctoral students.
- „Kryteria oceny wewnętrznej spójności modelu procedury karnej. Analiza porównawcza” – Head and contractor. Project funded by the National Science Centre, Opus 11 (UMO-2016/21/B/HS5/02061), carried out in 2017-2021.
- „In search of justice for core crimes in the digital age” – Head and contractor. Project funded by the National Science Centre, Opus 25 (UMO-2023/49/B/HS5/02623), carried out in 2024-2028.
- Execution of European Arrest Warrants in the Polish Judicial Practice After the Judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 27 April 2005, Polish Yearbook of International Law 2004-2005, vol. 27;
- Mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters with regard to probation measures and alternative sanctions – latest developments, Eucrim 2009, nr 1-2;
- Limits of Immunity of Members of Parliament in the Polish Law in the Light of European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence, (we współautorstwie z Anną Błachnio-Parzych), Argumenta Revista Jurídica 2009, nr 10, Faculdade Estadual de Direito do Norte Pioneiro;
- Interception of communications in the light of European Convention of Human Rights, (Intercepação de Comunicações sob a Luz da Convenção Européia de Direitos Humanos), Argumenta Revista do Programa de Mestrado em Cięncia Jurídica da Universidade Estadual Do Norte Paraná 2011, nr 15;
- Selection of defendants before the ICC: between the principle of opportunism and legalism, Polish Yearbook of International Law 2014, vol. 34;
- The scope of appeal on complementarity issues before the ICC – on the example of the appeal of Côte d’Ivoire against the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber in the Simone Gbagbo case, The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 2016 vol. 15;
- Confirmation of charges and the role of the Pre-Trial Chamber – Control of legal characterization of facts by the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber, in: Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny. Teoria. Praktyka. Wyzwania, (red.) A. Górski, Kraków 2017;
- Changing evidentiary rules to the detriment of the accused? The Ruto and Sang decision of the ICC Appeals Chamber, Polish Yearbook of International Law 2017, vol. 37;
- Hanna Kuczyńska, Karolina Wierczyńska, Head of State immunity in triangular relations? The case of Al-Bashir before the ICC, Czech Yearbook of International Law 2019, vol. 10;
- The possibility of initiating proceedings in the case of the Wola Massacre before national institutions, in: Wola 1944: an unpunished crime and the notion of genocide, (red.) E. Habowski, Warszawa 2019.
- Criminal responsibility of the Polish Communist Party (PZPR) for so-called „Communist crimes”, in: The Communist Crimes – Individual and State Responsibility. P. Grzebyk (ed.), IWS, Warszawa 2023;
- Execution of financial penalties imposed basing on vehicle registration data – a commentary to the CJEU judgment C-671/18 in the case Centraal Justitieel Incassobureau, in: Current issues of EU criminal law, A. Ochnio, H. Kuczyńska (eds.), Current issues of EU criminal law, INP PAN, Warszawa 2022;
- What are the main problems facing EU criminal law today? (with Ariadna H. Ochnio), in: A. Ochnio, H. Kuczyńska (eds.), Current issues of EU criminal law, eds. A. Ochnio, H. Kuczyńska, INP PAN, Warszawa 2022;
- Better to explain or to testify? The procedural position of a defendant in a comparative perspective, “Comparative Law Review” 2021, vol. 27 (2021);
- Admissibility of evidence obtained in result of issuing a European Investigation Order in the Polish criminal procedure, “Review of European and Comparative Law 2021”, vol 3;
- Mechanisms of elimination of undesired evidence from criminal trial, “Brazilian Journal of Criminal Procedure” 2021, vol 1;
- Digital evidence in investigation concerning Russian crimes in Ukraine, w: P. Grzebyk, D. Uczkiewicz (red.), The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes. Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution, Routledge 2024.
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