Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University

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In 1851 the first student scientific association in Poland was founded here (Association of Law Students' Library of the Jagiellonian University - TBSP UJ)

tudies

The programme of studies is based on individual students' choices. Master of Laws long-cycle programme contains a limited number of obligatory courses (ex. penal law, constitutional law, civil procedure) while fundamental courses and courses of specialisation depend on students' preferences.

Long-cycle programme
* Law - 5-year Master's degree programme ("magister")

First-cycle programme
* Administration - 3-year Bachelor's degree programme ("licencjat")

Second-cycle programmes

* Administration - 2-year Master's degree programme ("magister")
* Local Self-Government Administration - 2-year Master's degree programme ("magister")
* American and International Business and Trade Law ("LL.M.") - organised by the Columbus School of Law (Washington)
* Master en Droit Privé ("M2"), specialisation "droit des affaires français et international" - Master's programme organised by the University of Orléans
* International Studies in Intellectual Property Law ("LL.M.") - organised by the Institute of Intellectual Property Law* in cooperation with Dresden University of Technology

Third-cycle programmes

* Legal Sciences - doctoral programme
* System Transformation and Law Harmonisation in the Uniting Europe - European Postgraduate College (doctoral programme of the Jagiellonian University, University of Heidelberg and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)

Non-degree postgraduate programmes

* Postgraduate Studies in Labour Law
* Postgraduate Studies in Public Administration
* Postgraduate Studies in European Law
* Postgraduate Studies in Commercial Criminal Law
* Postgraduate Studies in Financial Penal Law
* Postgraduate Studies in Criminal Proceedings
* Law of Evidence for Public Prosecutors
* Postgraduate Studies in Copyright, Editorial and Press Laws (Institute of Intellectual Property Law*)
* Postgraduate Studies in Competition Law (Institute of Intellectual Property Law*)
* Postgraduate Studies in Law of the Internet (Institute of Intellectual Property Law*)

Other non-degree programmes

* Schools of Foreign Laws: American, German, French and Austrian
* Schule des Polnischen Rechts (School of Polish Law in German) - organised in cooperation with University of Heidelberg and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
* School of Polish and European Law at Ternopil National Economic University (Ukraine)
* School of Polish Law at Vilnius University (Lithuania)

The School of American Law is a part of the LL.M. programme of the Columbus School of Law. The School of German Law is recognised as a part of the LL.M. programme at cooperating German universities, and the degree may be completed there. Graduates of the School of French Law are automatically admitted to the Master's programme in Private Law organised by the University of Orléans.

Exchange programmes

Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University hosts the "International Business and Trade Summer Law Program" organised by The Catholic University of America (Columbus School of Law). This summer program has been authorized by the Accrediation Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Eduation [ [http://www.abanet.org/legaled/studyabroad/foreign.html ABA Section of Legal Education] ] .

Aside from multiple exchange agreements in the framework of the ERASMUS programme (41 universities in 2008), the Faculty enjoys an exchange program with the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). University-wide exchange programmes are also open for the students of the Faculty.

(*)The Institute of Intellecutal Property Law conducts courses at the Faculty of Law and Administration but is a unit of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication.

Most notable professors

* Stanisław of Skarbimierz (1360-1431), rector, theologian, lawyer, one of the most famous Just war theorists;
* Paweł Włodkowic (1370-1435), rector, lawyer, diplomat and politician, representative of Poland on the Council of Constance, where he presented a theory that all nations have the right to self-government and to live in peace. A forerunner of modern theories of human rights;
* Michael Bobrzynski (1849-1935), historian of Polish and German law, member of the Reichsrat, governor of Galicia;
* Stanisław Estreicher (1869-1935), rector, historian of law, bibliographer, caught in Sonderaktion Krakau, died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp;
* Stanisław Kutrzeba (1876-1946), rector, member of the Polish delegation at the Treaty of Versailles, General Secretary and president of Polish Academy of Learning, arrested by Nazis during Sonderaktion Krakau, deputy to the State National Council;
* Andrzej Zoll (born 1942), professor of penal law, former judge and president of the Constitutional Tribunal, former Ombudsman, former president of the Electoral Commission, former president of the Legislative Council, co-author of the Polish Penal Code of 1997.

At present, the faculty includes judges of the Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court, as well as co-authors of the most important legal acts in contemporary Poland (such as the Constitution, the Penal Code, the Commercial Companies Code or the local self-government acts).

Organisation

*Chair of Roman Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kprz/ *]
*Chair of Church Law and Law on Religious Dominations [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kpkiw/index.htm *]
*Chair of General Constitutional and Legal History
*Chair of Polish Legal History [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/khpp/index.htm *]
*Chair of History of Administration and Administrative Ideas [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~khadm/ *]
*Chair of European Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpe/strona/modules.php?name=page&id=48 *]
*Chair of Civil Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kprcyw/ *]
*: Centre for Law of Immaterial Goods
*: Centre for Banking Law
*Chair of Private International Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kppm/ *]
*Chair of Agricultural Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpr/ *]
*Chair of Civil Procedure [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpc/ *]
*Chair of Private Economic Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpgp/ *]
*: Centre for Banking Law
*: Centre for Commercial Law
*: Centre for Law on International Commercial Circulation
*Chair of Penal Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kk/ *]
*: Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law
*: Centre for Comparative Penal Law
*Chair of Criminology [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kryminol/en/ *]
*Chair of Penitentiary Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kkw/ *]
*Chair of Criminalistics [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kryminalistyka/ *]
*Chair of Penal Procedure [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpk/strona/ *]
*Chair of Administrative Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpadm/ *]
*Chair of Law on Environmental Protection
*Chair of Public Economic Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/ppg/ *]
*Chair of History of Political and Legal Doctrines [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/khdpip/KATEDRA.htm *]
*Chair of Economic Policy [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpg/ *]
*Chair of Administrative Procedure
*Chair of Financial Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~kpf/strona/ *]
*Chair of Constitutional Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kpkonst/test/index.php *]
*Chair of Public International Law
*Chair of Labour Law and Social Policy [http://www.uj.edu.pl/KPPiPS/index.php *]
*Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/users/kpup/ *]
*Chair of Sociology of Law [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~katsocpr/site/main.php *]
*Chair of Theory of Law
*Chair of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics
*Chair of Law of Territorial Self-Government [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~zpst/index.html.en *]
*Polish-German Centre for Banking Law
*Counselling-in-Law Office [http://www.uppuj.org/ *]
*Human Rights Centre [http://www.opc.uj.edu.pl/ *]
*Coordination Centre of Schools of Foreign Laws [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/index.php?strona=okspo *]
*: School of American Law
*: School of German Law
*: School of French Law
*: School of Austrian Law
*Law Library [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/wbpuj/ *]
*Computer Workship
*Law Students’ Library Association TBSP (est. 1851) [http://www.tbsp.pl/ *]
*European Law Students’ Association ELSA Krakow [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~elsa/ *]

Cooperating University units:
* Institute of Intellecutal Property Law [http://www.miks.uj.edu.pl/iwowi/ *] (Faculty of Management and Social Communication).
* Chair of Forensic Medicine [http://www.medycynasadowa.pl/ *] (Faculty of Medicine)
* Chair of Pathomorphology (Faculty of Medicine)
* Jagiellonian Language Centre
* Physical Education Section

Other cooperationg units:
* Institute of Forensic Research

Before graduation from the Master of Laws programme, students are obliged to complete 11 obligatory courses, 11 out of 21 fundamental courses, 2-year seminar of specialisation in a chosen Chair, 3-month apprenticeship, and a number of courses of specialisation (about 100 courses available), which should allow students to obtain 300 ECTS credits. The degree is granted after submitting Master's thesis and passing Master's Examination before a commission appointed by student's Chair of specialisation.

Location

Faculty buildings are situated in the historic centre of Krakow:
* Collegium Novum (Gołębia Street)
* Larische Palace (Bracka Street)
* Collegium Wróblewskiego (Olszewskiego Street)
* Collegium Iuridicum (Grodzka Street)
* Collegium Kołłątaja (Św. Anny Street)
* Auditorium Maximum (Krupnicza Street)

ee also

* Education in Poland
* List of law faculties in Poland
* Lawyers in Poland

External links

* [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/guide.pdf Faculty Guide]
* [http://www.uj.edu.pl/index.en.html Jagiellonian University]
* [http://llm.law.edu LLM Jagiellonian University-Catholic University of America]
* [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~spf/master.html Master en Droit Privé]
* [http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/juristische_fakultaet/igewem/llm/studium/krakau LLM International Studies in Intellectual Property Law]
* [http://www.graduiertenkolleg.eu/ European Doctoral College]
* [http://law.cua.edu/academic/jagiellonian/ School of American Law] , [http://www.sddr.org/pl/witamy.html School of German Law] , [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~spf/ School of French Law] , [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/index.php?strona=okspo School of Austrian Law]
* [http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/~sdpr/welcome.html Schule des Polnischen Rechts]
* [http://law.cua.edu/clinics/cracow/ International Business and Trade Summer Law Program]

References