Adam Ploszka – is a law researcher holding a Ph.D. degree in law currently associated with both the European University Institute in Florence (as a Max Weber Fellow) and the University of Warsaw (as an assistant professor at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law and Administration). His doctoral degree in law, with distinction, is from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, for the thesis, ‘The Public-law Status of an Extremely Poor Person’. His Ph.D. thesis was rewarded by a well-known Polish scientific publisher. Adam is the author of many scientific publications on human rights, case law of the European Court of Human Rights and constitutional law and has published in, among others, the European Constitutional Law Review, European Public Law, Comparative Law Review, and in Państwo i Prawo.
Email: a.ploszka@wpia.uw.edu.pl
Selected publications in English:
1. An uncharted territory awaiting to be uncovered discrimination on the grounds of socio-economic status in the Polish legal order, Elif Askin and Hanna Stoll (ed.) Contested Equality International and Comparative Legal Perspectives, Edward Elgar, 2024, p. 81-99
2. One step forward, two steps back: The European Court of Human Rights’ approach to the criminalisation of begging: Dian v Denmark (App. No.44002/22), European Human Rights Law Review, Issue 6, 2024, p. 551-557
3. The Illiberal State and Homelessness The Case of Poland, The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy, ed. Chris Bevan, Routledge 2024
4. All Beginnings Are Difficult: The Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights a Decade After Their Adoption, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2023, 1-21.
5. From human rights to human wrongs. How local government can negatively influence the situation of an individual. The case of Polish LGBT ideology-free zones, The International Journal of Human Rights, 27:2, 359-379.
6. It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 15, 51–74 (2023).
7. A Homeless Bill of Rights as a New Instrument to Protect the Rights of Homeless Persons, European Constitutional Law Review, Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , 601 – 624.
8. Shrinking Space for Civil Society: A Case Study of Poland , European Public Law 26, no. 4 (2020), 941–960.