Poland

Dorota Pudzianowska graduated in law and sociology. She is presently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University. She specializes in public law with special interest in human rights, migration law, nationality law and anti-discrimination law.

Dorota is an attorney-at-law admitted to the Warsaw Bar. From the years 2006-2020, she worked at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw where she led strategic litigation of discrimination cases. At present she works as Of Counsel for Dentons law firm (Warsaw).

From 2008-2012, she was an alternate member of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. She was a member of the Commission of Experts for Migrants in Polish Ombudsman Office (2015-2021).

She is currently the Principal Investigator on the comparative research project “CitWidE – The state of citizenship in a wider Europe: towards convergence?” at the EUI. She is also an expert on Polish citizenship at the EUDO Citizenship Observatory. She also contributed to other GLOBALCIT projects, including the FRACIT project on ‘Access the Franchise in the European Union’ as well as the ACIT project on ‘Access to Citizenship and its Impact on Immigrant Integration’. Dorota has authored books and numerous articles in academic journals as well as in daily press.