Adam Piotr Bodnar (born 6 January 1977) is a Polish lawyer, educator, human rights activist and politician who currently serves as Minister of Justice. He was the 7th Polish Ombudsman from 2015 until July 2021.
Life and career
He was born into Polish–Ukrainian family. His Ukrainian father, as a child, was forcibly displaced from a village near Sanok to north-west Poland in Operation Vistula.
In 2000, he graduated in law from the University of Warsaw, and in 2001 he obtained a Master of Law degree in the field of comparative constitutional law from the Central European University in Budapest. He also completed a course in European Law co-organized with Cambridge University as well as American Law co-organized with the University of Florida at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. In 2006, he received a PhD degree from the University of Warsaw on the basis of his dissertation entitled Multi-level Citizenship in the European Constitutional Sphere. In 2019, he obtained habilitation at his alma mater.
He worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Human Rights of the Faculty...