European University Association

The Dean's Office:
ul. Grunwaldzka 13
35-068 Rzeszów
tel. centrala: (017) 872 15 20
e-mail: prawo@univ.rzeszow.pl

At the Faculty of Law there are 74 academic teachers employed: 5 professors, 12 post-doctoral degree holders, 32 doctors, 25 Master's degree holders and 1 technical employee.

The UR Faculty of Law consists of the following units:

• Department of Law Philosophy and Sociology - guardian prof. dr hab. Daniel Markowski
  
• Department of History of State and Law - head prof. dr hab. Józef Ciągwa
  
• Department of Legal Comparative Science - head prof. UR dr hab. Mária Kiovská
  
• Department of Administrative Science - head prof. UR dr hab. Jan Łukasiewicz
  
• Department of Civil and Labour Law - head prof. dr hab. Jerzy Wratny
  
• Department of Commercial and Economic Law - head dr hab. Jan Olszewski
  
• Department of Criminal Law and Procedure - head prof. UR dr hab. Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski
  
• Department of Constitutional Law - head prof. UR dr hab. Halina Zięba-Załucka
  
• Department of International and European Communities Law - head prof. UR dr hab. Elżbieta Dynia
  
• Department of Public Law - head prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Ura
  
• Department of Roman Law - head prof. dr hab. Marek Kuryłowicz
  
• Department of Law Theory and Political-Legal Doctrines - head ks. dr Piotr Steczkowski
  
• Department of Systems of European States - head prof. UR dr hab. Stanisław Sagan
  

Faculty of Law conducts studies
Law - 5 years' full time and part-time uniform Master studies
European Studies - 3-years' full time and part-time studies of 1st degree (since academic year 2006/2007)

Post-diploma studies
Post-diploma Manager Study Centre - labour law and social insurance
Post-diploma Manager Study Centre - legal regulations of building investments
Post-diploma Manager Study Centre - economic law
Post-diploma Manager Study Centre - managing the health protection system
Post-diploma Studies - legal system of information protection

The history of UR Faculty of Law
The history of the UR Faculty of Law began with the establishment of a branch of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Rzeszów on 18th April 1969 by Regulation of the Ministry of Education and Higher Schools. Then the Vocational Administration Study Centre was set up and since 1972 extramural Master' studies. Daily Master studies of law were started in 1980. The Faculty of Law has been at the University of Rzeszów since 1st September 2001. By a decision of the State Accreditation Board the Faculty of Law obtained a positive overall result.

Fields of scientific and research activity

Department of Law Philosophy and Sociology
axiological threads in L. Petrażycki's theory, inhabitants of local community against safety problems

Department of History of State and Law
parliamentary members' motions in the Silesian Sejm in the years 1922-1939, fiscal administration and fiscal law in Poland in the years 1918-1950, fugitives from government institutions from the East European countries in the years 1945-1970 and their legal status in Europe

Department of Legal Comparative Science
administrative procedure institutions, regulation of administrative procedure on the comparative background, customs procedure, financial law in the state and European union, constitutional courts in European countries, election of president in European countries, determinants of constitutional contents of human rights' catalogues in Poland and the world, the right to live in contemporary constitutions, problems of copyright in case of works published on the Internet, using the Internet in the work of a contemporary lawyer, international and European criminal law

Department of Administrative Science
formalisation of administration - organisational elasticity, rationalisation of administrative structures, bureaucracy

Department of Civil and Labour Law
employee information and consultation, evidence, licence for using a trade mark, protection of constancy of labour relation in the autonomic labour law, stating of representativeness of trade unions in practice, amendments to act on court costs in civil cases, particularly including costs from the scope of labour law and social insurance, a principle of equality of religions in the Polish Republic, an employer's responsibility for damages executed by an employee, a'preliminary contract, procedure in matrimonial cases

Department of Commercial and Economic Law
amendments to competition law in public law, courts of conciliation, use of the confidentiality principle in courts of conciliation, security of performance of obligations in economic turnover, remedies at law in bankruptcy regulations and redress law

Department of Criminal Law and Procedure
organised crime, copyright - criminal aspect, offences against health, responsibility of collective subjects, counteraction against money laundering, initiating of penal proceedings, telecommunication crime, measures of appeal in penal proceedings, right to defence, foreigners' rights, right to court, remedies at law of penal proceedings resolutions in penal cases, means of compulsion in penal proceedings, simplifications of penal proceedings, formal defence in penal proceedings

Department of Constitutional Law
right to learn, economic freedom, health protection in the Constitution, State Council of the Radio and Television, inspection, President of the Polish Republic, didactic problems of the constitutional law, modern state systems, Polish parliamentary law, national minorities, state system of Georgia, public prosecutor's office, parliamentary investigation commissions in Europe, the Sejm Investigation Commission, public finances in the Polish Republic Constitution

Department of International and European Communities Law
recognition of a state and recognition of a government, status of foreigners, evolution of an individual's responsibility in international law, legal protection against state and union courts, basic rights in the EU, extradition in European Union law, protection of human rights in the scope of the Independent States Communities, International Criminal Court

Department of Public Law
tasks of administration in the scope of social aid, functioning of organs of persons and property protection, administrative act as a source of administrative and legal relations, principles of the European tax law in ETS jurisdiction, being a carrier of tax rights, administration and legal aspects of functioning of territorial self-government units, system solutions in territorial self-government units, control criteria of territorial self-government activity, construction elements of direct taxes

Department of Roman Law
homicide in the Roman law, women's position in intestacy inheriting, statutory limitation of women in testacy inheriting, benefit - review of sources, intestacy inheriting

Department of Law Theory and Political-Legal Doctrines
forum internum in canonical law, financial economy of a commune, modern legal interpretation, Milovan Djilas's doctrine of "a new class"

Department of Systems of European States
political system of Island, political system of the Kingdom of Sweden, relations between Finland's Parliament and government, political system of the Autonomous Republic of Krym, political system of the Ukraine, political system of the Turkish Republic, management in administration, protection of basic rights
Within Socrates/Erasmus Programme the Faculty cooperates with:
Peter Pazmany University in Budapest (Hungary), Universita degli Studi Dell Sannio, Benevento (Italy), Anadolu University (Turkey), University of Staffordshire (Great Britain), University of Akureyri (Island),
"1 Decembrie 1918" University in Alba Iulia (Romania), Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha (Spain), Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU (Spain), University in Kosice (Slovakia), University in Trnava (Slovakia), University of Oradea (Romania), West University of Timisoara (Romania).
Students take part also in placements in Great Britain within Leonardo da Vinci Programme.
Coordinator for International Programmes - prof. UR dr hab. Jan Olszewski.

Under resolution no. 166/2005 PKA (The State Accreditation Committee) of 19th May 2005 on the "Assessment of the quality of Education at Master's level", the Faculty of Law received a positive assessment.