Fields of research:

- issues of tradition and progress in judicial civil law

- comparative legal analysis of the institutions of judicial law

- claim security, enforcement, bankruptcy and restructurization proceedings

- class actions

- European and international civil procedure


Employees

 

Chair of the Department:

 

Joanna Misztal-Konecka,  Full Professor, Hab. PhD, Chair of the Department

 

Fields of interest:

civil procedural and substantive law; Roman law; European legal tradition

 

Current research:

judicial system; enforcement proceedings; evidence

 

International cooperation:

 

  • Erasmus Plus stay, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain (2025)
  • Erasmus Plus stay, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain (2024)
  • Erasmus Plus stay, Universiteti Aleksander Xhuvani, Albania (2022)
  • study visit, Corte Suprema di Cassazione, Italy (2021)
  • Erasmus Plus stay, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy (2019)
  • study visit, European Union bodies, Belgium (2018)
  • academic internship, Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy (2018)
  • academic internship, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain (2018)
  • academic internship (study visit) at Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Teaching University, Tbilisi, Georgia (2017)
  • query, University Library in Parma, Italy (2017)
  • expert, Active Charter Training Through Interaction of National Experiences (ACTIONES — JUST/2014/JTRA/AG/EJTR/6871) (2016–2017)

 

e-mail: joanna.misztal-konecka@kul.pl

 

Edyta Gapska, PhD

 

Fields of interest:

civil procedural law, decision making process, jonider of actions, costs of civil litigation, non-litigious proceedings

 

Current research:

Joinder of actions in civil litigious and non-litigious proceedings

 

International cooperation:

Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, 2012 - lecture in English and research
Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, 2013 – lectures in English
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, 2015 - lectures in English;
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law, 2018 r. – lecture in English on International Conference;

 

e-mail: edyta.gapska@kul.pl

 

Paweł Wrzaszcz, PhD

 

Fields of interest:

civil substantive and procedural law; bankruptcy and restructuring law; enforcement proceedings

 

Current research:

e-justice; consumer bankruptcy; legislative changes in civil procedural law; protection of rights in civil courts

 

International cooperation:

UER: The European University of Rome

UFV: Francisco de Vitoria University

University of Elbasan "Aleksander Xhuvani" (2019)
Università degli Studi di Cagliari (2019)
expert in the European Commission for the Effectiveness of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe, Saturn Group member

lecturer at KSSIP - National School of Judiciary and Public Prodecution

 

e-mail: pawel.wrzaszcz@kul.pl

 

Kinga Dróżdż-Chmiel, PhD

 

Fields of interest:

civil substantive and procedural law

 

Current research:

Civil evidentiary proceedings, power of attorney and the role of an attorney in civil proceedings, civil proceedings in matters of family law, guardianship and curatorship, especially in cases concerning the division of joint property of spouses, procedural indolence and abuse of procedural law, proceedings to secure claims.

 

International cooperation:

University of London, 2025 – library query

University of Cambridge, 2025 – conference, lecture

Uniwersitatea din Bacuresti, 2025 – conference, lecture

Trnavská univerzita v Trnave, 2024 – Erasmus Plus stay

Università degli Studi di Milano – conference, lecture

Trnavská univerzita v Trnave, 2024 – conference, lecture

 

e-mail: kinga.drozdz-chmiel@kul.pl

 

Paulina Woś, PhD

 

Fields of interest:

civil substantive and procedural law; economic law; business insurance law.

 

Current research:

secondary independent intervention; insurance company in civil proceedings

 

e-mail: paulina.wos@kul.pl

 

 

Katarzyna Woch, Phd

 

Fields of interest:

civil procedural law, system of protection of legal authorities, judicial cooperation in civil matters

 

Current research:

civil court proceedings with a cross-border element, European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims, participation of women in the Polish judicial system

 

e-mail: katarzyna.woch@kul.pl

 

Emil Kowalik, PhD

 

Fields of interest:

civil substantive and procedural law, land registry proceedings, real estate transactions, economic and commercial law. 

 

Current research:

speed and efficiency of civil proceedings, computerization of civil proceedings and their rationalization, service of documents in civil proceedings 

 

e-mail: emil.kowalik@kul.pl

 


 

History of the Department