Position:        Senior Lecturer in Law

• Law of the European Union (LLB)
• Internal Market of the European Union (LLM EU LAW)
• External Relations of the European Union (LLM EU LAW)

• Enlargements of the European Union (LLM EU LAW)

• EU External Relations
• EU Institutional Law
• Criminal Law of the European Union
• WTO Law
• Public International Law

Biography

Adam Łazowski is a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Westminster (London). He obtained a Master’s Degree in 1999 and a PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. Between 1999 and 2003, he lectured at the University of Warsaw. During the next two years, he worked as a senior researcher in European law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague). Dr Łazowski’s scientific interests include the law of the European Union as well as public international law. His research has so far led to a number of books, articles, contributions to edited volumes and conference papers.

In 2003, his monograph on non-judicial remedies in EU law received first prize in a nationwide competition for the best book on EU law organised in Poland by the Foundation for the Promotion of European Law. Since 1999, Dr Łazowski has actively participated in various EU law training programmes for practitioners in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Estonia. In Estonia, he served as a mid-term expert in an EU-financed biannual project. In that capacity, he provided extensive training to national lawyers as well as co-writing a distance-learning course combined with a series of case studies aimed at Estonian judges. Over the past years Dr. Łazowski’s teaching commitments have included the University of Warsaw (Poland), the University of Tartu (Estonia), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and the European Law Academy (ERA) in Trier (Germany), University of Zagreb, University of Luxembourg.

Recent/ select Publications

Books (selection)

• Brave New World: Application of EU Law in the New Member States (co-author and editor), T.M.C. Asser Press (in a worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press), forthcoming in May 2009

• Анализ на съдебна практика по преюдициалното запитване до Съда на Европейските Общности [Case studies on the preliminary ruling procedure], National Institute of Justice, Sofia 2008

• Prawo międzynarodowe publiczne [Public International Law] (co-author), C.H. BECK, Warsaw 2008

• Eelotsusemenetlus – kaasusõpped [Case studies on the Preliminary Ruling Procedure] (author), Estonian Law Centre Foundation, Tartu 2007

• The European Union and Its Neighbours. A Legal Appraisal of the EU’s Policies of Stabilisation, Partnership and Integration (co-author and co-editor), T.M.C. Asser Press (in a worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press), The Hague, 2006

• Unia Europejska. Prawo instytucjonalne i gospodarcze [European Union. Institutional and Substantive Law] (editor and co-author), Wolters Kluwer Polska, Warsaw

1^st edition 2005

2^nd edition 2006

3^rd edition 2007

4th edition 2008

• Prawo Unii Europejskiej, testy, kazusy, tablice [EU law, tests, cases and tables] (co-author and editor), C.H. BECK, Warsaw

1^st edition 2003

2^nd edition 2004

3^rd edition 2006

4^th edition 2008

• Prawo instytucjonalne Unii Europejskiej [Institutional Law of the European Union] (co-author), C.H.BECK, Warsaw

1^st edition 2004

2^nd edition 2006

3^rd edition 2007

4^th edition 2008

• Prawo międzynarodowe publiczne [Public International Law] (co-author), C.H. BECK, Warsaw

1st edition 2001

2^nd edition 2003

• Prawo pochodne Unii Europejskiej. Wybór dokumentów [Secondary Law of the European Union. Documents] (co-editor), Kantor Wydawniczy Zakamycze, Kraków 2006

• Współczesne wyzwania europejskiej przestrzeni prawnej [Contemporary Challenges of European Legal Space. Liber Amicorum Eugeniusz Piontek] (co-author and co-editor), Kantor Wydawniczy Zakamycze, Kraków 2005

• Ochrona praw jednostek w prawie Wspólnot Europejskich. Pozasądowe mechanizmy ochrony praw przed instytucjami i organami Wspólnot Europejskich [Protection of Rights of Individuals in the EC Law. Non Judicial Remedies at the Institutions and Organs of the European Communities] Kantor Wydawniczy Zakamycze, Kraków 2002

Articles in peer reviewed journals

• ‘Enhanced Bilateralism and Multilateralism: Integration without Membership’ 45 CMLRev. (2008), pp. 1433-1458

• Poland. Constitutional Tribunal on the Preliminary Ruling Procedure. Decision of 19 December 2006, European Constitutional Law Review, 2008 volume 4, pp. 187-197

• Propozycje reform procedury pytań prejudycjalnych w obszarze wolności, bezpieczeństwa i sprawiedliwości [The Proposed Reforms of the Preliminary Ruling Procedure], Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 9/2007, pp. 18-25

• ‘Two Sides of the Same Coin? Framework Decisions and Directives Compared’ (co-author) 25 YEL (2006) pp. 177-204

•  ‘And Then They Were Twenty-Seven…A Legal Appraisal of the Sixth Accession Treaty, 44 CMLRev. (2007) 401-430

• ‘Rozporządzenie jako źródło prawa Wspólnot Europejskich’ [Regulations as a Source of EC Law],  Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 3/2007, pp. 12-19

• Poland. Constitutional Tribunal on Conformity of the Accession Treaty with the Polish Constitution.

• Decision of 11 May 2005, European Constitutional Law Review, 2007 volume 3, issue 1, pp. 148-162

• ‘Poland. Constitutional Tribunal on the Surrender of Polish Citizens under the European Arrest Warrant.

• Decision of 27 April 2005, European Constitutional Law Review, 2005 volume 1, issue 3, pp. 569-581

• ‘Commentary to the EFTA Court judgment in case E-4/01 K.Karlsson v. Iceland’, Kwartalnik Prawa Publicznego 1-2/2002 [Public Law Quarterly], pp. 271-281

• ‘Adaptation of the Polish Legal System to European Union Law: Selected Aspects, Sussex European Institute Working Paper no 45, pp. 1-27

• ‘Europejska Konwencja o Ochronie Praw Człowieka i Podstawowych Wolności w systemie konstytucyjnym Zjednoczonego Królestwa Wielkiej Brytanii Irlandii Północnej’ [ECHR in the UK Legal Systems] Przegląd Prawa Europejskiego no. 2(8) 2000 [European Law Review], pp. 5-16

Contributions to edited volumes (selection)

• ‘The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights – the Limits and Potential’, in Barcz (Eds.) The Strengthening of Fundamental Rights in the European Union, C.H.Beck, Warsaw forthcoming in January 2009

• ‘The Transposition and Implementation of Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA in Poland’ in Weyemberg and Santamaria (Ed.), The Evaluation of European Criminal Law: the example of the Framework Decision on combating trafficking in human beings, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, forthcoming in January 2009

• ‘Towards the Reform of the Preliminary Ruling Procedure in JHA Area’, in Braum and Weyemberg (Ed.), Quel contrôle juridictionnel dans l’espace penal européen?, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, forthcoming in January 2009

• ‘EAW and Detention’ (co author with S. Nash), in N. Keijzer (Ed), The European Arrest Warrant in Practice, T.M.C. Asser Press (in a worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press), forthcoming in January 2009

• ‘With but without you: the Europeanization of Legal Orders of the Neighbouring Countries’, in Ott and Vos (Ed.), 50 Years of European Integration: Foundations and Perspectives (T.M.C. Asser Press & Cambridge University Press, The Hague 2009), forthcoming in January 2009

• ‘Box of Chocolates Integration: The European Economic Area and Swiss Model Revisited’ in: Blockmans, Prechal (Ed.), Reconciling ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ of the European Union (T.M.C. Asser Press & Cambridge University Press, The Hague 2007), pp. 87-110

• ‘The Polish Parliament and EU Affairs. An Effective Actor or an Accidental Hero?’, in: J. O’Brennan, T. Raunio (eds) National Parliaments Within the European Union: From Victims of Integration to Purposive Actors?, Routledge, London and New York 2007, pp. 203-219

• ‘The Polish Constitution, the European Constitutional Treaty and the Principle of Supremacy’ in: A. Albi, J. Ziller (eds) The European Constitution and National Constitutions: Ratification and Beyond, Kluwer Law International, The Hague 2007, pp. 171-181

• ‘EEA Countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein)’, in S. Blockmans, A. Łazowski (eds) The European Union and Its Neighbours. A Legal Appraisal of the EU’s Policies of Stabilisation, Partnership and Integration, T.M.C. Asser Press (in worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press), The Hague, 2006, pp. 95-146

• ‘EU and Switzerland’, in: S. Blockmans, A. Łazowski (eds) The European Union and Its Neighbours. A Legal Appraisal of the EU’s Policies of Stabilisation, Partnership and Integration, T.M.C. Asser Press (in worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press), The Hague, 2006, pp. 147-184

• ‘EU and Bulgaria’ (co-author), in: S. Blockmans, A. Łazowski (eds) The European Union and Its Neighbours. A Legal Appraisal of the EU’s Policies of Stabilisation, Partnership and Integration, T.M.C. Asser Press (in worldwide distribution by Cambridge University Press), The Hague, 2006, pp. 207-246

• ‘Dostęp jednostek do sądów wspólnotowych (ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem powództwa o unieważnienie aktu prawnego’ [Citizens’ Access to EU Courts (with Emphasis on the Action for Annulment), in: H. Izdebski, H. Machińska (eds) Dostęp obywateli do europejskiego wymiaru sprawiedliwości, Biuro Informacji Rady Europy, 2005, pp. 60-75

• ‘Unia Europejska i Szwajcaria. Współpraca współistnienia czy współpraca integracji’ [EU and Switzerland. Co-operation of Integration or Co-existance], in: C. Mik (ed) Unia Europejska i Świat. Aspekty prawne i polityczne [European Union and the World. Legal and Political Aspects], TNOiK, Toruń 2005, pp. 115-142

• ‘Swobodny przepływ osób między Unią Europejską a Szwajcarią’ [Free Movement of People between the European Union and Switzerland] in A. Łazowski, R. Ostrihansky (eds) Współczesne wyzwania europejskiej przestrzeni prawnej [Contemporary Challenges of European Legal Space. Liber Amicorum Eugeniusz Piontek], Kantor Wydawniczy Zakamycze, Kraków 2005, pp. 411-430

• ‘Stosowanie rozporządzeń wspólnotowych na płaszczyźnie wewnętrznej państw członkowskich’ [Application of EC Regulations at the Domestic Level of Member States], in: E. Piontek (ed) Prawo Unii Europejskiej w wewnętrznych porządkach prawnych państw członkowskich [Law of the European Union in Domestic Legal Systems of the Member States] Dom Wydawniczy ABC, Warsaw 2004, pp. 83-102

• ‘Polska w okresie między podpisaniem Traktatu Akcesyjnego, a jego wejściem w życie – wybrane zagadnienia’ [Poland in the period between signing of the Accession Treaty and its entry into force – selected issues] in: S. Biernat, S. Dudzik, M. Niedźwiedź, (eds), Przystąpienie Polski do Unii Europejskiej. Traktat akcesyjny i jego skutki [Accession to the European Union. Accession Treaty and its legal consequences] Kantor Wydawniczy Zakamycze, Kraków 2003, pp. 125-152

• ‘Implementation of the Third Pillar Acquis. A Challenge for the Applicant Countries?’ in: G. de Kerchove, A. Weyemberg (eds), Sécurité et justice: enjeu de la politique extérieure de l’Union européenne, Institut d’etudes europeennes 2003, pp. 157-167

• Poland’ in: K. Inglis, A. Ott (eds) Handbook on European Enlargement. A Commentary on the Enlargement Process, TMC Asser Press 2002, pp. 299-308

• ‘Public Procurement’ in: K. Inglis, A. Ott (eds) Handbook on European Enlargement. A Commentary on the Enlargement Process, TMC Asser Press 2002, pp. 619-630

• ‘Approximation of Laws’ in: K. Inglis, A. Ott (eds) Handbook on European Enlargement. A Commentary on the Enlargement Process, TMC Asser Press 2002, pp. 631-640

• ‘Industrial Policy, Enterprise Policy and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’ in: K. Inglis, A. Ott (eds) Handbook on European Enlargement. A Commentary on the Enlargement Process, TMC Asser Press 2002, pp. 881-894

Conferences

Paper Title: Hold on, I am coming! The story of Mr. Brzezinski and his second-hand car

Conference: Challenges for New EU Member States; Discussions from a national perspective

Date: 8 December 2008

Place: Utrecht, The Netherlands

Paper Title: Revisiting the Status of Individuals in Public International Law and Supranational Legal Orders

Conference: Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. Lawyer of Two Cultures

Date: 5-6 November 2008

Place: London

Paper Title: All’s Well that ends well: action plans in practice

Conference: Neighbours, but not Neighbourly? The EU’s relations with the Neighbourhood

Date: 10-11 October 2008

Place: The Hague, The Netherlands

Paper Title: Stretching the Reach of Mutual Trust: The Extension of European Arrest Warrant to Third Countries

Conference: Workshop on Recent Developments in EU External Relations

Date: 5-6 June 2008

Place: Maastricht, The Netherlands

Paper Title: Closing the Loop: The Treaty of Lisbon and the JHA Area

Conference: The European Union: Towards a Legal Reform

Date: 5 June 2008

Place: Vilnius, Lithuania

Paper Title: Closing the Loop: the Treaty of Lisbon and JHA Area

Conference: Re-thinking the European Constitution in the Enlarged European Union

Date: 20-27 April 2008

Place: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Paper Title: Victims of War - Beneficiaries of EU Citizenship: the ECJ in Tas-Hagen and Nerkowska Cases

Conference: Re-thinking the European Constitution in the Enlarged European Union

Date: 20-27 April 2008

Place: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Paper Title: Institutions supporting the enforcement of Charter of Fundamental Rights (in Polish)

Conference: Giving the binding character to the Charter of Fundamental Rights under the Treaty of Lisbon. The impact on the strengthening of individual rights

Date:  14 March 2008                                        

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: European criminal law as a challenge for the ECJ: towards the reform of the preliminary ruling procedure

Conference: Which jurisdictional control in the European penal area?

Date:  9-10 November 2007

Place: Luxembourg

Paper Title: The Reform Treaty: A Paradise for Lawyers and Jigsaw Puzzle for EU Citizens (in Polish)

Conference: Quo Vadis Europe II

Date: 5-6 October 2007

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Engaged Elites or Kings of Dreams: Businesses as Enforcers of EU Law in Central and Eastern Europe

Conference: First Central and Eastern European Rule of Law Symposium: The Judicial Reforms and the EU Accession

Date: 16 June 2007

Place: Sofia, Bulgaria

Paper Title: Free Movement of Workers: Transitional Periods for the New Member States (in Polish)

Conference: Recent Developments in Free Movement of Persons and Services (in Polish)

Date: 28 May 2007

Place: Gródek nad Dunajcem, Poland

Paper Title: Application of EU law in the new Member States: per varios usus artem experentia fecit

Conference: Federalizing the EU: Why Do It?

Date: 19 May 2007

Place: Athens, Greece

Paper Title: Instruments of the European Neighbourhood Policy

Conference: European Neighbourhood Policy: Noaberschap in Europe

Date: 20 April 2007

Place: Enschede, The Netherlands

Paper Title: Enhanced Bilateralism and Multilateralism: Integration without a Membership

Conference: 50 Years of European Integration: Foundations and Perspectives

Date: 24 March 2007

Place: Maastricht, The Netherlands

Paper Title: What procedural reform to improve the contribution of the European Court of Justice to the European Penal Area?

Conference: The Role of the ECJ in the establishment of a European Penal Area

Date: 9 February 2007

Place: Brussels, Belgium

Paper Title: Alternatives to Membership: Other Models of Extending Acquis

Conference: The European Neighbourhood Policy:A Framework for Modernisation?

Date: 2 December 2006

Place: Florence, Italy

Paper Title: Posting of Workers in EU law (in Polish)

Conference: Quo Vadis Europe ?

Date: 21 October 2006

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Integration without Membership: Enhanced Multilateralism and Bilateralism in EU’s Relations with Its Neighbours

Conference: Reconciling ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ of the European Union

Date: 29 September 2006

Place: The Hague, The Netherlands

Paper Title: The European Economic Area: Disappearing Hybrid or Sustainable Enterprise?

Conference: Annual UACES Conference

Date: 2 September 2006

Place: Limerick, Ireland

Paper Title: The Principle of Supremacy and Its Impact on National Legal Orders

Conference: Legal System of Lithuania: Trends and Perspectives

Date: 25 July 2006

Place: Vilnius, Lithuania

Paper Title: Brave New World: the New Member States of the European Union and the Preliminary Ruling Procedure’

Conference: TAIEX Seminar for the Estonian judiciary

Date: 24 April 2006

Place: Tallinn, Estonia

Paper Title: The Relations between Polish and EU law in the Jurisprudence of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

Conference: The European Constitution and National Constitutions: Ratification and Beyond

Date: 4 November 2006

Place: Tallinn, Estonia

Paper Title: General Report on the evaluation in the framework of the first pillar – relevance for the third pillar acquis

Conference: Implementation of EU Criminal Law: which methodology for the evaluation ?

Date: 21 October 2005

Place: Brussels, Belgium

Paper Title: EU and Switzerland: Inevitable Partners?

Conference: Annual UACES Conference

Date: 5 September 2005

Place: Zagreb, Croatia

Paper Title: EU and Switzerland: Inevitable Partners?

Conference: NOPSA conference organised at the University of Iceland

Date: 12 August 2005

Place: Reykjavik, Iceland

Paper Title: ‘ECJ judgment in the case Pupino: A Revolution for the third pillar?’ (in Polish),

Conference: Official launch of Liber Amicorum for Professor Eugeniusz Piontek

Date: 21 June 2005

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Are the EU Citizens better of under the EU Constitution ?’

Conference: Seminar on EU Constitution organised by the University of Sofia

Date: 18 March 2005

Place: Sofia, Bulgaria

Paper Title: Non-judicial Remedies at the EU Level: An Accidental Jigsaw Puzzle or an Attempt to Create a Coherent System?’

Conference: Annual UACES Conference

Date: 7 September 2004

Place: Birmingham, United Kingdom

Paper Title: Co-operation of Integration or Co-operation of Co-existence. The Union and Switzerland’

Conference: Young Researchers Seminar: Enlargement and the Future of the European Union: Parallel Paths or Crossroads

Date: 3 July 2004

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: The European Ombudsman and the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe – Missed Opportunity for a Reform? (in Polish),

Conference: The Enlarged European Union – Challenges and Problems

Date: 28 May 2004

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Direct Applicability of regulations in the domestic legal order (in Polish)

Conference: The Role of the European Union Law in the Internal Legal Order of Member States

Date: 24 October 2003

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: The Future of Europe and the Judiciary

Conference: The Future of Europe in the Light of Enlargement

Date: 26 September 2003

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Poland upon signature of the Accession Treaty and before its entry into force (in Polish)

Conference: Poland on its way to the European Union

Date: 6 May 2003

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Legal approximation in the preaccession phase – candidate countries experience

Conference: Annual SLSA Conference,

Date: 15 April 2003

Place: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Paper Title: Approximation of Polish Law with the Third Pillar Acquis

Conference: The EU Criminal Area and the World

Date: 17 March 2003

Place: Brussels, Belgium

Paper Title: The Pro-European interpretation of law as the approximation method (in Polish)

Conference: Polish Law and the Law of European Union

Date: 28 February 2003

Place: Warsaw, Poland

Paper Title: Is the Charter of Fundamental Rights just a mere declaration or it is the first step on the way to the Constitution of the European Union ?

Conference: German-Polish Seminar on the Emerging Constitutional Law of the European Union

Date: 17 September 2002

Place: Kraków