Andrzej Zoll
Andrzej Stanisław Zoll | |
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4th Ombudsman for Citizen Rights | |
In office June 30, 2000 – January 27, 2006 | |
President |
Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński |
Prime Minister |
Jerzy Buzek Leszek Miller Marek Belka Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz |
Preceded by | Adam Zieliński |
Succeeded by | Janusz Kochanowski |
President of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland | |
In office November 19, 1993 – December 1, 1997 | |
President |
Lech Wałęsa Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
Prime Minister |
Waldemar Pawlak Józef Oleksy Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz Jerzy Buzek |
Preceded by | Mieczysław Tyczka |
Succeeded by | Marek Safjan |
Personal details | |
Born |
May 27, 1943 Sieniawa |
Profession | Lawyer |
Andrzej Stanisław Zoll (born 27 May 1942) is a Polish lawyer, former judge and president of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, former Polish Ombudsman, former president of the State Electoral Commission, former president of the Legislative Council, co-author of the Polish Penal Code of 1997. Professor of criminal law at the Jagiellonian University.
Biography
Andrzej Zoll was born in Sieniawa, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in 1964. Judge Zoll earned his Ph.D. in 1968, and a habilitated doctor's title in 1973. In 1988 he became professor of legal sciences. Since 1994 he heads the Chair of Criminal Law of the Jagiellonian University.
In 1989 he took part in the round table negotiations as Solidarity’s legal expert.
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the European Art and Science Academy in Salzburg.
Author of 3 monographs and above 150 other publications in the area of criminal and constitutional law and philosophy of law.
Member of the Committee on Ethics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as Department of History and Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Learning. Curator of the Association of Law Students' Library of the Jagiellonian University.
Distinctions
- Commander's Cross of the Polonia Restituta
- Great Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997) [1]
- Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (Lithuania)
- Doctor honoris causa of the universities of Vilnius and Mainz
References
- ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour" (pdf) (in German). p. 1145. Retrieved November 2012. Check date values in:
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External links
- Biography at the website of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal
- List of publications at the website of the Chair of Criminal Law of the Jagiellonian University