Educational Affairs -
university
Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs

Prof. dr hab. Paweł Laidler
Academic Degrees
Master’s Degree in Law - 2000, JU
PhD in Political Sciences - 2003, JU
Habilitated Doctor of Political and Administrative Sciences - 2012, JU
Professor of Social Sciences - 2023
Faculty of International and Political Studies, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Chair in American Studies
Member of the Council of the ‘Ars Docendi’ Teaching Development Fund, JU – 2012-2020.
Member of the JU Sports Centre Council – 2016-2020.
Member of the team of experts at the National Science Centre – 2018 and 2019.
Member of the Jagiellonian University Scholarship Chapter – since 2018.
Jagiellonian University representative in The Guild of Research-Intensive Universities network based in Brussels – 2018-2020, member of the network’s working group Strategic Leads on Education – since 2021.
Member of the coordinating group of the programme Excellence Initiative - Research University at the JU – 2019-2020.
Coordinator of the initiative Horizon Europe Weeks at the JU – 2019-2022.
Member of the Steering Team of the Priority Research Area Society of the Future as part of the Excellence Initiative Research University – 2020-2021.
Member of the Council of the Jagiellonian University Student and Graduate Foundation ‘Bratniak’ – since 2020.
Head of the SYLFF Scholarship Board at the Jagiellonian University na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim - since 2020, Board member – 2016-2020.
Member of the Advisory Group at the Foreign and European Union Affairs Committee of the Polish Senate – 2021-2024.
JU representative in the w International Strategic Task Force as part of UNA Europa alliance – since 2021.
Member of the Polish Political Science Association
Member of the Polish International Studies Association (PTSM)
Member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)
American constitutional law, US political system, US Supreme Court, American electoral system, politicisation of the judiciary, judicialisation of politics, overlap of law and politics
Author of over 70 research publications in Polish and English in the field of American constitutional law, as well as the political and legal system of the United States, leader of six research projects (including the international project Beethoven-2), speaker at 60 national and international academic conferences
Author of over 80 research publications in Polish and English in the field of American constitutional law, as well as the political and legal system of the United States, leader of six research projects (including the international project Beethoven-2), speaker at 60 national and international academic conferences
3-month fellowship from the Sasakawa Young Leaders’ Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) – research stay in the Catholic University of America (USA, 2001)
6-month stay as a Visiting Professor in JFK Institut fur NordAmerika Studien, Freie Universitaet in Berlin (Germany, 2015)
shorter stays (from one week to one month) in: Catholic University of America, Washington DC (USA), San Diego State University, Kalifornia (USA), Delaware Valley University, Pennsylvania (USA), New York State Library, New York (USA), Griffith University and Queensland University, Brisbane (Australia), The Tokyo Foundation, SYLFF, Tokyo (Japan), Wien Universitaet, Vienna (Austria), Freie Universitaet, Berlin (Germany), Lepizig Universitaet, Leipzig (Germany), Universita Roma-Tre, Rome (Italy).
academic advisor in 1 completed PhD procedure, 104 completed MA procedures, and 58 completed BA procedures; reviewer in 15 PhD and habilitation procedures; teacher of several dozen courses in English and Polish as part of the programmes: American Studies, Latin American Studies, International Relations and Area Studies, Global and Development Studies, International Security and Development, International Relations and Public Diplomacy
First Prize in Student Laudations for the highest grade in students’ surveys at the JU – 2013.
JU Rector’s award for research activities – 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022.
JU Rector’s award for teaching activities – 2014.
Award for the best educator on the 10-th anniversary of the launching of the programme in English: International Relations and Area Studies (IRAS) – 2023.