University of Silesia in Katowice

Katarzyna Gajda-Roszczynialska, habilitated doctor of law, Assistant Professor,

Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia, Civil Procedure, judge of the District Court for Kraków Krowodrza. Director of the project financed by the National Agency for Academic Exchange: “The impact of COVID-19 on the justice system. Case study and suggested solutions”. Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Judicature at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Member of the Board of the Scientific Society of Civil Process. Member: International Association of Procedural Law; International Association of Procedural Law; ELI (European Law Institute) based in Vienna; Social Codification Commission. Lecturer at the District Bar Council in Krakow and lecturer at postgraduate studies “Mediation and other methods of alternative dispute resolution”, conducted by the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University.

Krystian Markiewicz, habilitated doctor of law, Associate Professor

Director of the Center for Research on the Justice System at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Professor of the University of Silesia, specialises in matters related to civil proceedings, especially non-litigious proceedings. He is a judge of the District Court in Katowice. In 2009, he became the president of the Silesian Branch of the Association of Polish Judges “Iustitia”, and in 2016 he was elected president of the Association of Polish Judges “Iustitia” for a three-year term. In 2017, he also became a member of the Social Codification Commission. In the same year, he was awarded the Medal for Merit to the Justice System – Bene Merentibus Iustitiae. He is a member of the Social Codification Commission.

Andrzej Torbus, habilitated doctor of law, Associate Professor

Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice. He manages the Silesian Centre for Mediation Arbitration established at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia. He is a mediator in commercial matters, attorney-at-law, author of about 100 publications on civil proceedings. He conducts classes, lectures, training in ADR, civil procedure, bankruptcy and restructuring law, and European civil procedure.

Prof. Irina Izarova

Full professor at the Faculty of National Law of the University of Taras Shevchenko in Kiev. Research interests of prof. Iryna Izarova mainly covers civil proceedings and dispute resolution, as well as the issue of the organization of the judiciary. She is the author of a number of publications in this field and the editor of the special issue of Acces to Justice in Eastern Europe, devoted to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the justice system in various countries. She is also a participant in many national and international projects on the indicated topic.