Department of criminal law
Centre for Research on Economic Crime
Professor
email: cnowak@inp.pan.pl
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and postgraduate diploma of the Université de Paris I – Panthéon–Sorbonne masters’ degree of the Faculty of Law and Administration Warsaw University. In 2007, she gained PhD on the basis of her thesis Wpływ procesów globalizacyjnych na polskie prawo karne [Corruption in the Polish criminal law in the light of international instruments]. In 2015, she obtained her habilitation on the basis of the thesis Wpływ procesów globalizacyjnych na polskie prawo karne [Impact of globalisation processes on Polish criminal law].
Director of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ILS PAS), from 2016;
Secretary General of the European Law Research Association. Member of the Board of Director of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP).
Scholarship holder of the French (2001) and Italian (2004) government, and several times in Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012).
Editor-in-chief of ‘Contemporary Central and East European Law’. Member of the editorial board of scientific journals ‘Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem’(‘Critics Law: Independent Study on the Law, from 2014), ‘Klinika Prawa’ (‘Legal Clinic’ from 2012), correspondent Revue de Science Criminelle et de Droit Pénal Comparé (from 2011).
Since 2000 – Asistant at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2007 – Assistant Professor, since 2015 – Associate Professor.
In 2001-2007 – Lecturer at European University of Law and Administration, Warsaw. In 2006-2007 – Asistant at University of Warsaw. Since 2007 to 2015 – Lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law, Kozminski University, Warsaw. From 2015 – Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law, Kozminski University, Warsaw
In 2012 – Guest lectures at the Institut des Sciences Politiques, France
Research interests:
- fairness of the criminal process;
- criminalization of corrupt behavior;
- alternatives to imprisonment;
- globalization on the national criminal law systems;
- hybridization of legal systems;
- protection of the financial interests of the European Union;
- compliance policy;
- methodology of law teaching. .
Research projects:
- 2023–2025 – Corporate Criminal Liability in the European Union
- 2023–2025 – The Influence of Globalization on the Polish Criminal Law
- 2021–2025 – Alternatywy pozbawienia wolności w państwach postsocjalistycznych
Finished research projects:
- 2017–2020 – Controlling Illicit Trade of Tobacco in Era of Fast Change
- 2017–2019 – ‘Compliance jako narzędzie zapobiegania korupcji’ (‘Compliance as a tool of corruption prevention’), research project funded by National Science Centre (UMO-2016/21/B/HS5/02051), Poland
- 2010–2013 – Vertical and horizontal cooperation in combatting organized fraud in the EU (VeHoCoinCOF)
- 2010–2013 – ‘Współczesne tendencje w zakresie kryminalizacji a polskie prawo karne’ (‘Contemporary trends in criminalization and Polish criminal law’), research project funded by National Science Centre (UMO-NN/110/187338)
- 2012–2013 – ‘Dowody w sprawach o naruszenie interesów finansowych Unii Europejskiej’ (‘Evidence in cases of violation of the financial interests of the European Union’)
- 2012 – study on the impact of tehe different policy options to protect the financial interests of the Union by means of criminal law, including the possibility of establishing a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)
Consulting and expert activities for
- European Commission – European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
- Sejm of the Republic of Poland
- Central Anti-Corruption Bureau
- Ecorys and the University of Luxembourg
- Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
- Stefan Batory Foundation
Prizes:
- Medal of the Minister of Justice “Meritorious for the Justice” (2013)
- First prize in the national best Ph.D thesis contest: “Polish challenges: state – identity – progress”, category: “Functioning of the state and its institutions”, organized by the President of the Republic of Poland (2009).
- First prize in the contest for the national best Ph.D thesis on law, organized by the legal scientific journal “Państwo i Prawo” (“Law and State”) (2008).
Participation in internstionsl conferences (selected):
- (2014) Whither EU AFSJ? Integrating freedom, security and justice in an uncertain environment
- (2014) Surpopulation carcérale et alternatives ? la detention: expériences nationales comparées. Un dialogue entre Italie, Belgique, France, Pologne, Roumanie et Espagne
- (2014) Prison Overcrowding and Alternatives to Detention
- (2014) Le contrôle judiciaire du parquet – Necessité, Modeles, Enjeux
- (2013) IV International Anticorruption Conference: The role of of public administration officials in identifying irregularities in public procurement
- (2012) Information Society and Penal Law. AIDP Preliminary Colloquium of the First Section: Penal Law – General Part
- (2012) Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- (2006) Veme Séminaire Doctoral International et Européen
