Andrzej Zoll
Polish ombudsmen for citizen rights
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| Intro | Polish ombudsmen for citizen rights | ||||||
| Places | Poland | ||||||
| is | Judge Lawyer | ||||||
| Work field | Law | ||||||
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| Birth | 27 May 1943, Sieniawa, Poland | ||||||
| Age | 81 years | ||||||
| Star sign | Gemini | ||||||
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Biography
Andrzej Stanisław Zoll (born 27 May 1942) is a Polish lawyer, former judge and president of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, former Polish Ombudsman, 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.
Biography
Andrzej Zoll was born in Sieniawa, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in 1964. Judge Zoll earned his Ph.D. in 1968, and a habilitated 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’s legal expert.
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the European Art and Science Academy in Salzburg.
Author of 3 monographs and above 150 other publications in the area of criminal and constitutional law and philosophy of law.
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. Curator of the Association of Law Students' Library of the Jagiellonian University.
Distinctions
- Commander's Cross of the Polonia Restituta
- Great Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
- Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (Lithuania)
- Doctor honoris causa of the universities of Vilnius and Mainz