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
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
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
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
