Prof. Dr. Arkadiusz Wudarski

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Arkadiusz Wudarski has held the Chair of Polish and European Private Law
and Comparative Law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) since 2010 and the Research Professorship at the University of Szczecin in Poland since 2023
; previously he was Head of the Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Comparative Private Law at the University of Zielona Góra (2014 – 2022)
;for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Comparative Private Law at the University of Zielona Góra (2014 – 2022)
and the research group for European Private Law and Comparative Law at the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa (2010 – 2014).

Studied Law at the University of Silesia in Katowice; PhD and habilitation
at the University of Hamburg (supervisor: Prof. Dr P. Mankowski); authorised to teach. Mankowski); authorised to teach civil law,
European private law and comparative law; obtained the equivalent of a habilitation in research and teaching in Poland; Master's degree in German philology and educational science; sworn interpreter, lawyer.

Fellow of Polish, German, Austrian, Swiss and American institutions,
including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP Programme HOMING), the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation (SDPZ), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS),
the German-Polish Science Foundation (DPWS), the Austrian Exchange Service (Österreichischer Austauschdienst (ÖAD),
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the National Science Centre (NCN Programme OPUS), the National Agency for Scientific Exchange (NAWA, Bekker´s Programme), Collegium Helveticum (UZH/ETH/ZHdK) and Kosciuszko Foundation (TKF).

Winner of the Science Prize of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland for outstanding habilitation achievement.

Guest professor at the University of Vienna (2012/2013) and at the Ivane Javakhishvili University in Tbilisi (2023); President of the Polish-Georgian University;President of the Polish-Georgian Law Society (ქართველ და პოლონელ იურისტთა ასოციაცია); Deputy President (ქართველ პოლონელ იურისტთა ასოციაცია). President (2016 – 2019) and Secretary General (2013 – 2016) of the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Association for the Promotion of the Research Institute for Central and Eastern European Business Law (FOWI) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; member of the German Civil Law Teachers' Association (ZLV), the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) and the Academy of European Law (AE).

Member of the scientific advisory board of the journals: „Studia Iuridica”, „Rejent“, „Prawo Europejskie
w praktyce“, „Comparative Law Review“, „Studia Prawnicze“,International Law and Intergation Problems „Beynəlxalq hüquq və inteqrasiya problemləri“ [Azerbaijan, Baku], Georgisch-Deutsche Zeitschrift für Rechtsvergleichung („შედარებითი სამართლის ქართულ-გერმანული ჟურნალი) [Georgia, Tbilisi]
and the Scientific Journal of the Caucasus International University (“კავკასიის საერთაშორისო უნივერსიტეტის სამეცნიერო ჟურნალი”) [Georgia, Tbilisi].

Peer reviewer of the magazines: „Transformacje Prawa Prywatnego”, „Przegląd Prawa i Administracji”, „Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego”, „Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Międzynarodowego”, „Kwartalnik Krajowej Szkoły Sądownictwa i Prokuratury“, „Forum Prawnicze”, „Kenyatta University Journal of Children’s Rights“ (KUJCR), „International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family”, Cambridge.

Guest lectures in Azerbaijan, China, Germany, Georgia, Kenya, Nepal, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, South Korea, Turkey and the USA, among others.

Publications in German, English, French, Georgian, Korean, Croatian, Nepali, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Czech, Belarusian.

Research stays at universities in Hamburg, Osnabrück, Oxford, Vienna (University of Vienna, Business University), Washington D.C. (GWU, Law School), Zurich (UZH, Collegium Helveticum UZH/ETH/ZHdK)

A specialist in foreign law; regular preparation of legal opinions for German, Austrian and Polish courts in the field of private law, in particular contract, tort, family and insurance law as well as procedural and private international law.