Lech (Leszek) Garlicki (born 23 August 1946 in

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) is a Polish

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and

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specialist. Since 1988 he has been a

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at the

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, in the years 1993–2001 judge of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland and in the years 2001–2002 president of the Polish Society of Constitutional Law. Between 2002 and 2012 he was a judge of

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. Garlicki is one of the Founding Members of the

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Activity in the field of Human Rights

From 1993 to 2001, as judge of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland, he ruled in numerous cases dealing with human rights, with the implementation of the

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and the decisions of the

. He participated in the European Conferences of Constitutional Courts in Budapest (1996) and Warsaw (1999). He also participated in teaching programs devoted to human rights issues, organized notably by the Helsinki Foundation, the Center for European Studies, the

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, the

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or the OCSE. He also cooperates with the

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of Budapest in the Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Judicial Independence" program and the "Human Rights and Administrative Law Teaching" program and with the

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of Budapest in the "Fundamental Rights in the New Problem-Oriented Methodology; Teaching Constitutional Law in Russia” project. According to a report published by the European Center for Law and Justice, as an ECHR judge, he seated in numerous cases in which he was in a position of conflict of interest because of his links with the

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and the Helsinki Foundation.

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Biographical note

European Law Institute
1946 births Living people Judges of the European Court of Human Rights Polish judges of international courts and tribunals Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Academic staff of the University of Warsaw University of Warsaw alumni {{Poland-bio-stub