Andrzej Stanisław Zoll (born 27 May 1942) is a Polish
lawyer
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, former
judge
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and president of the
Polish Constitutional Tribunal, former
Polish Ombudsman
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, former president of the State Electoral Commission, former president of the Legislative Council, co-author of the
Polish Penal Code of 1997. Professor of criminal law at the
Jagiellonian University
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.
Biography
Andrzej Zoll was born in
Sieniawa
Sieniawa (; uk, Сеня́ва, Seniáva), is a town in southeastern Poland. It had a population of 2,127 inhabitants (02.06.2009). Since 1999, Sieniawa has been part of Subcarpathian Voivodeship.
History
Sieniawa's history dates back to the 17 ...
,
Poland
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.
He graduated from the
Faculty of Law
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of the Jagiellonian University in 1964.
He earned his Ph.D. in 1968, and a
habilitated
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doctor's title in 1973. In 1988 he became professor of legal sciences. Since 1994 he heads the Chair of Criminal Law of the Jagiellonian University.
In 1989 he took part in the
Round Table Negotiations as
Solidarity
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’s legal expert.
Member of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
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and the European Art and Science Academy in
Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the ...
.
Between 1989-1993, he served as a judge of the
Polish Constitutional Tribunal and between 1990-1993 he was chairman of the State Electoral Committee.
In 2002, he was appointed deputy director at the
European Ombudsman Institute
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.
Since 2000 until 2006, he served as Polish Ombudsman for Citizens' Rights.
Author of 3 monographs and above 150 other publications in the area of
criminal
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and
constitutional law
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and
philosophy of law
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.
Member of the Committee on Ethics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as Department of History and Philosophy of the
Polish Academy of Learning
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. Curator of the
.
Distinctions
* Commander's Cross of the
Polonia Restituta
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* Great Cross with Star of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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*
Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
*
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
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(Lithuania)
*
Doctor honoris causa
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of the universities of
Vilnius
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and
Mainz
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See also
*
Politics of Poland
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References
External links
Biographyat the website of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal
List of publicationsat the website of the Chair of Criminal Law of the Jagiellonian University
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1942 births
Constitutional court judges
Lawyers from Kraków
Jagiellonian University alumni
Academic staff of Jagiellonian University
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ombudsmen in Poland
Recipients of the Grand Decoration with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria
Recipients of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
20th-century Polish judges
Living people
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts