Anna Wójcik

Anna Wójcik (@annawojcik) is an expert on the rule of law and human rights, with particular focus on the EU and its eastern member states. She is currently Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. She is also an assistant professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland (on leave). Anna co-founded The Rule of Law in Poland blog and the Wiktor Osiatynski’s Archive – a resource on the rule of law backsliding in Poland. She is providing expertise for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Anna has published in academic journals and drafted analyses for non-governmental organizations and think tanks focused on democracy and human rights. She currently concentrates on judicial independence and media freedom dimensions of democratic backsliding, and EU toolkit to foster the rule of law compliance, including conditionality regulation.

She holds a PhD in human rights law from the Polish Academy of Sciences, MA in Sociology from Central European University and MA in law from Warsaw University. She is also on LinkedIn.