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Dominika Uczkiewicz

Guest Speaker

Assistant Professor of International Law and History, Pilecki Institute (Poland)

Dominika Uczkiewicz is a lawyer and historian. Her research interests lie in Transitional Justice, legal history, and German-Polish relations, with a particular focus on the history of international criminal law and the war crimes trials after the Second World War. During her PhD studies, she worked as a researcher at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław. She is an assistant professor at the Centre for Totalitarian Studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw.

Her recent publications include a monograph on the war crimes policy of the Polish government in exile in London (Problem odpowiedzialności karnej za zbrodnie wojenne w pracach rządu polskiego na emigracji 1939-1945, Warszawa 2022), a volume edited together with Wolfgang Form: Polish and German Perspectives on Transitional Justice. World War Two and its Aftermath (Wrocław 2021) and a volume edited in cooperation with Patrycja Grzebyk: The Russian-Ukrainian War. Challenges to the Documentation and to the Prosecution of International Crimes (forthcoming).