MFA: Prof. Adam Wiśniewski is Poland's official candidate for judge of the European Court of Human Rights

We are pleased to announce that Assoc. Prof. Adam Wiśniewski (Head of the Department of Public International Law) was included in the list of 3 candidates, which the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland forwarded on July 24, 2024 to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .

The candidates were selected by the Team for the Selection of Candidates on behalf of the Republic of Poland for the office of Judge of the European Court of Human Rights. They received a positive opinion from the Advisory Panel of Experts of the Council of Europe for the selection of candidates for the position of judge of the European Court of Human Rights. On 23 July 2024, a public hearing of the candidates was organized in the Senate of the Republic of Poland with the participation of, among others, parliamentarians, non-governmental organizations and representatives of the legal professions.

At the meeting on 16-17 September 2024, the list will be considered by the Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the selection of judges of the ECtHR. If the Commission finds that the list meets the procedural and substantive requirements, it will conduct hearings of the candidates.

In such a case, the Parliamentary Assembly will select a new judge from the list of candidates at its plenary session on 30 September - 4 October 2024.

We keep our fingers crossed for Prof. Adam Wiśniewski!