Judges 2025

Judge Joanna Wegner (Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland)

Education and academic degrees:

– 2002 master’s thesis, devoted to tax proceedings;

– 2006 judicial exam, after completing judicial apprenticeship at the District Court in Lodz,

– 2008 the Postgraduate Studies in Legislative Issues at the University of Warsaw;

– 2009-2010 and 2012-2014 vice-dean of the Administration the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz and worked at that school as an academic teacher;

– 2012 doctorate at the Faculty of Administrative Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw based on the dissertation “Application of the Constitution in the case law of administrative courts”;

– 2017 habilitation at the Faculty of Administrative Law and Administration of the University of Łódź based on the dissertation “Effectiveness of EU administrative law on the example of veterinary protection”;

– 2023 the title of professor based on the monograph “Institution of silent consent by public administration” (published 2021).

Employment:

– currently a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court since 8.03.2022,

– 2019-2022 a judge of the Regional Administrative Court in Warsaw,

– 2009-2019 an attorney in an individual law firm in Łódź

also (since 2014) a professor at the Faculty of Administrative Law and Administration of the University of Łódź, at the Institute of Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Comparative Administrative Procedure.

Achievements:

– author of over 70 scientific publications in the field of public law;

– supervision of two doctoral theses, defended with an outstanding grade;

– working as an expert of a team for the reform of administrative proceedings. As a result of the work carried out until 2016, a ready legislative draft was prepared, basing on which the amendment to the Code of Administrative Procedure was made – by the Act of 7 April 2017, Journal of Laws item 935.

Most important publications:

– in addition to the monographs mentioned: Code of Administrative Procedure. Commentary, Warsaw 2023 (co-author), “The structure of the subsidiary application of the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure”, Państwo i Prawo 2020/6, „Non-jurisdictional Forms of Disposing an Administrative Matter: Croatian and Polish Experiences”, Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci 2020 Vol. 41 No. 1 (co-author), „Evolution of Tacit Consent in the Polish Administrative Law”, Paragwaj 20232, “Locus standi in Administrative Procedure” [w:] Contemporary Concepts of Administrative Procedure (Between Legalism and Pragmatism), Łódź 2023, „ Execution of the CJEU judgment in extraordinary administrative procedure”, Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 2020/12, s. 19-25, „Das Konzept des streitigen Verwaltungsverfahrens im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz“ [w:] B. Giesen (red.), „Immaterialgüterrechte in Polen”,  Mohr Siebeck (in print), „ Between Formalism and Judicial Independence (Considerations Against the Background of the Concept of the New Methodology of Judge Edmund Walter Thomas’s Work)”, Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze. Przegląd Orzecznictwa 2015, No. 4, ss. 131 – 155 „The Idea of Governance and Contemporary Directions of Law Development”, Państwo i Prawo 2016/5, s. 3 – 17, „ European Administrative Cooperation in the Draft Reform of the Code of Administrative Procedure”, Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 2016/6, s. 4 – 11,”Abuse of Administrative Discretion” [in:] Leszek Leszczyński / Adam Szot (eds.), “Discretionary Power of Public Administration”, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ss. 71-86, Peter Lang – Frankfurt am Main ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien 2017 (co-author), „Access to Administrative and Judicial-Administrative Proceedings in Common Law Systems” [w:] „Participation in Administrative Aroceedings. Towards the Socialization of the Legal Interest”,  Warszawa 2017, s. 70 – 92, part of the Polish report for the International Congress of Comparative Law in Japan in 2018, „The Deference Concept in Polish Administrative Courts Adjudication” ed. Prof. B. Lewaszkiewicz-Petrykowska „Rapports Polonais XXe Congrès International de Droit Comparé / XXth International Congress of Comparative Law Fukuoka, 22-28 VII 2018”, Łódź 2018, s. 245 – 260 (co-author), “Protection of Factual Interests in Administrative Proceedings” eds. Z. Kmieciak, W. Chróścielewski „The idea of Codification in the Science of Administrative Procedural Law. A Memorial Book of Professor Janusz Borkowski”, Warszawa 2018, ss. 333 – 346.