Ph.D Joanna Mierzwińska-Lorencka

Research unit:

Department of Criminal Law

General information

2011 – From assistant professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
24 May 2005 -The Master’s degree, obtained on . The thesis: “The status of the juvenile in the Polish Penal Code and Executive Penal Code”, written under the supervision of Professor dr hab. Stanisław Pawela.
9 November 2010 – The degree of Doctor of Legal Sciences in law, granted by the resolution of the Council of the Department of Law of the Warsaw University on. The doctoral thesis: Child protection against sexual abuse in criminal law, written under the supervision of Professor dr hab. Eleonora Zielińska. Reviewers: Professor dr hab. Maria Rogacka – Rzewnicka and Professor dr hab. Violetta Konarska – Wrzosek.

Proffesional experience:

From 1 December 2005 till 30 April 2007: judge’s assistant in the Provincial Court for Warsaw – Wola in Warsaw.
From 1 May 2007 till 30 April 2009: judge’s assistant in the Appeal Court in Warsaw.
From 1 August 2006 till 30 October 2012: social probation officer for juveniles in the Provincial Court for Warsaw – Mokotów in Warsaw.
From 1 May 2009 – 31 January 2019: judge’s assistant in the Supreme Court.
From 1 February 2019: member of The Supreme Court Research and Analyses Office.

Juvenile criminal law, substantive criminal law, crimes against sexual liberty and decency, crimes against the family and guardianship

2016 – Research project „Trends in the development of juvenile criminal responsibility in the international and Polish law system” realized and financed from the tar-geted subsidy for young scientists.
October 2016 – Research stay at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg.
2017 – Research project Study EuPenTrain – “Preparing the environment for the EPPO: Fostering mutual trust by improving existing common legal heritage and enhanc-ing common legal understanding. Proposal for a preliminary study and guidelines fora model ‘framework curriculum’ for legal training of practitioners in the PIF sector”.

Selected publications