Anna Wójcik

Doctor of Laws, assistant professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ILS PAS), and post-doc in the international research project MEMOCRACY The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past. In her dissertation, Anna discussed restrictions on the rights and freedoms of individuals in the context of historical policy from the international human rights law perspective. She graduated in law from Warsaw University and sociology from Central European University.

She was a re:constitution program fellow (2021-2022), affiliated with Democracy Institute, Central European University, and Hungarian Helsinki Committee and a fellow of the Rethink.CEE programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2021).

Anna is also a rule of law practitioner. She has co-founded two rule of law monitoring projects, the Wiktor Osiatyński Archive and the Rule of Law in Poland. Since 2017, she has analyzed democracy in Poland for Freedom House. She also worked for Article 19 and cover the rule of law for OKO.press, an independent public interest journalism portal.