Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Anna Śledzińska-Simon

Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law
University of Warsaw, Poland

Research Focus / Expertise:

Religious and cultural diversity in Poland: public space and the use of religion and culture as legitimate (state) aims justifying limitations of human rights

ORCID:

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Biography:

Dr hab. Anna Śledzińska-Simon is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Wrocław, Department of Law, Administration and Economy. She holds a S.J.D. and LL.M. in Comparative Constitutional Law from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary).

She has held visiting fellowships at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), New York University School of Law (New York, USA), European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Columbia University School of Law (New York, University) and Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany).

Her research and writing concerns comparative constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on anti-discrimination law. She is currently involved in several international projects (including a project on cultural and religious diversity in Europe, CUREDI, led by Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and gender and constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe).

Since 2019 she is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She is a guest lecturer at the Academy of European Law and serves as a senior legal expert at the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, the Batory Foundation and the Local Social Council of the Polish Ombudsman.