Ph.D Monika Domańska

Research unit:

Department of European Law

General information

Ph.D Monika Domańska is an Assistant Professor, Department of European Law at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences where she has been working since 2006.
Since 2001, Ph.D Domańska has been working in Labour Law and Social Security Chamber in the Supreme Court of Poland, first as a judicial assistant and now as a Member of the Supreme Court Research and Analyses Office, providing opinions on legal issues.
Ph.D Domańska has been admitted to the Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw in 2011 (attorney-at-law). Due to employment contract in Supreme Court, currently not exercising this profession.

Research interests

Monika Domańska received the Ph.D. in Law at this Institute in 2011 after defending her thesis dedicated to the issue “Implementation of EU Directives by National Courts” (published in Poland by WoltersKluwer, 2014). The thesis analyses the process in which the objectives of the directive must be secured by full application of the provisions transposing the directive into national law by competent national authorities, including in particular national courts, and by the enforcement of these provisions where they are breached.

Her current research in European Union Law and Comparative Law with specific expertise in anti-discrimination law straddles two fields: first, she developes a critical legal studies on European and international anti-discrimination law by focusing on intersectional inequalities and other types of multiple discrimination. Second, she is promoting correct application of anti-discrimination law and for those concept she uses interdisciplinary methods, including empirical and discursive analysis of case law, in particular the ECJ, ECtHR and national courts.

Additional information

Individual research projects:

„Dicrimination on more then one prohibited ground” research grant founded by the National Science Center (Poland) (DEC-013/09/B/HS5/04526) (2014-2018).

Scholarships:

Monika Domańska was granted scholarship by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne under the Van Calker Scholarship Program allowing to conduct a two-month internship at this Institute (2010 r.)