Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Dr. habil. Wojciech Brzozowski

University Professor
Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Poland

Research Focus / Expertise:

Freedom of religion or belief, Conscientious objection, Religious neutrality, Orthodox Christianity

ORCID:

ORCID logo https://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-3199-0820

Biography:

Wojciech Brzozowski is a University Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, where he holds the Chair in Law and Religion. He received his MA (Law, Political Science) and PhD (Law) degrees from the University of Warsaw. Most of his research revolves around the issues of Constitutional Law and Law and Religion, with a particular focus on areas such as the right to conscientious objection, religious education in public schools, and the accommodation of Islam in the European legal space. He was also a co-leader of the Polish team in the EXCEPTIUS project (EXCEPTIUS: Exceptional powers in times of SARS-Cov-2, https://exceptius.com). In 2021, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca with a research project entitled “Understanding conscientious objection”. In 2022, he held a fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) with a project entitled "Freedom of religion or belief in the Orthodox-majority countries before the European Court of Human Rights".

Wojciech currently serves as Vice President of the Polish Association of Law and Religion (PTPW). He is also a member of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), the Observatory on Religious Freedom in the Jurisprudence of the ECHR (ORFECT), and the Advisory Board of the Sofia Legal Science Network (SLSN). In January 2023, he was appointed Deputy Ombudsman of the Republic of Poland.

Contributor since:

04 March 2024