Public Law, Human Rights, Citizenship and Migration
Dorota Pudzianowska is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, and a practising advocate. She holds degrees in law and sociology from the University of Warsaw and also studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris. She received her PhD in Law with distinction in 2011 and her habilitation in 2020.
Her research focuses on public law, particularly administrative law, human rights, citizenship, migration and statelessness. She examines the relationship between individuals and the state, including the legal status of citizens and non-citizens, access to rights, equality and non-discrimination, and the constitutional, European and international limits on public authority.
Her work is relevant to Security Science, particularly in understanding how states define membership, regulate the legal position of foreign nationals and respond to cross-border mobility while upholding the rule of law and protecting fundamental rights.
Her monographs include Citizenship in the Process of Change (Wolters Kluwer, 2013, in Polish) and Statelessness in Public Law (Peter Lang, 2023). She has also published on immigration and asylum law, statelessness in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, voting rights of foreign nationals and minority rights.
Professor Pudzianowska has served as Principal Investigator of research projects at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and of projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre. She has also conducted research commissioned by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
She brings more than twenty years of legal practice. From 2005 to 2020, she worked with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, conducting strategic litigation in precedent-setting cases before Polish administrative courts, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Tribunal and the European Court of Human Rights. Her experience also includes international legal practice, specialising in administrative and regulatory disputes.
She served as an Alternate Member of the FRA Management Board and subsequently as an FRA expert. In 2024–2025, she was Deputy Chair of the Advisory Team on EU Law to the Polish Minister of Justice.
