I am an associate professor at the University of Lodz, Doctor of Laws, graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Lodz - here I completed my Master's degree in law with honours and defended my doctoral thesis entitled - ‘The right to personal data protection - a study in constitutional law’.
I specialise in information law with particular emphasis on personal data protection, access to public information, re-use of public sector information and data management and the regulation of these issues in European law. My research interests also include issues such as freedom of expression, including press and artistic expression, the law of new technologies, the legal conditions of the use of artificial intelligence, the latest technologies in health care and European and national regulations on unmanned aerial vehicles.
I am the head of the Postgraduate Studies ‘Law of new technologies - serving business and the public sector’ conducted at the Faculty of Law of the University of Łódź.
In June 2024, I was appointed as a member of the Social Team of Experts to the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection.
In 2022, I was included in the ‘List of the 25 best lawyers in business’ of Forbes Women magazine and the Women in Law Foundation - I was awarded in the field of ‘Scientific activity’.
I have been included in the LIST of 100 People who have made a distinctive contribution to increasing digital literacy of citizens in Poland in 2023 (plebiscite conducted by the Broad Alliance for Digital Literacy in Poland).
I am the author of more than 180 scientific and popularising publications mainly in the field of information law, including the monograph - ‘ Personal data protection and access to public information and re-use of public sector information’, Wolters Kluwer 2022, on the basis of which, as well as other scientific output, I obtained the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences in the discipline of legal sciences.
A commentary to the RODO - ‘General Data Protection Regulation’, C.H. Beck 2018 - was written under my editorship. I am the co-editor of the most extensive and comprehensive academic commentary to the UDIP - ‘Access to Public Information Act. Commentary', Wolters Kluwer 2023, and co-author of the commentary to the re-use law - ’The Law on Open Data and Re-use of Public Sector Information. Commentary', Wolters Kluwer 2022.
I take an active part in scientific conferences, seminars, debates. I am the author of the substantive concepts of several dozen cyclical industry forums. I have delivered over 100 papers and participated in numerous legal discussions, which I particularly value. I teach at postgraduate programmes run by the University of Łódź and other universities. I enjoy talking about law.
I have the pleasure of cooperating with the Chair of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław and with several research centres - operating at the University of Łódź and at other Polish universities:
- I am a member of the Programme Council of the Centre for Personal Data Protection and Information Management at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz.
- I cooperate with the Silesian Centre for Law Engineering, Technology and Digital Competence CYBER SIENCE - a scientific and didactic consortium established by the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Scientific and Academic Computer Network - National Research Institute NASK, the University of Economics in Katowice and the Silesian University of Technology.
- I am a member of the Scientific Staff of the Institute of New Technologies Law and Personal Data Protection at Lazarski University.
- I cooperate with the research team of Information Law, Media and Intellectual Property in New Technologies at the Institute of Law and Economics of the Pedagogical University of Krakow and the Academy of Law of New Technologies of the UP.
- I cooperate with the Centre for Design, Fashion and Advertising Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia.
In parallel with my scientific and teaching activities, I undertake other professional activities. I completed my legal adviser training in 2008. I am a legal adviser, partner in Sakowska-Baryła, Czaplińska Kancelaria Radców Prawnych Sp. p., vice-president of SBC Inspektor Sp. z o.o. and Director for Operational Planning in this company, and editor-in-chief of the quarterly ‘ABI Expert’ - a magazine on personal data protection and information security valued among specialists.
I work with the AI LAW TECH Foundation , have collaborated with the Panoptykon Foundation. I am a member of the Scientific Centre for Law and Information Technology. I am a co-founder of the Association of Data Protection Practitioners and was its vice-president from 2019 to 2023.
I actively participate in the popularisation of science - I run a YouTube channel introducing data protection, information law and new technologies, and I conduct trainings - with more than 20,000 participants to date.
My areas of interest are information law, European law, constitutional law and new technologies.
Published scientific monographs:
Editors of scientific monographs:
Lexicons:
Leksykon
terminów medialnych, K.
Wolny-Zmorzyński, K. Doktorowicz, P. Płaneta, R. Filas (red.), Wydawnictwo Adam
Marszałek, Toruń 2024, ISBN: 978-83-8180-650-3,
A-L Tom 1, M-Z Tom 2
Published chapters in scientific monographs:
Articles in scientific journals:
Studies, practical comments:
1. conducting research in the field of EU law, protection of human rights, comparative constitutional law, information law, law of new technologies
2. teaching courses in the field of EU law, protection of human rights, protection of personal data
3. directing postgraduate studies ‘Law of new technologies - serving business and the public sector’.
As the Head of Postgraduate Studies ‘New Technology Law - Serving Business and the Public Sector’ at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Łódź, I am responsible for the high substantive value of the studies, selection of lecturers, recruitment, organisational matters.
Kopcińskiego 8/12 90-232 Łódź
Kopcińskiego 8/12 room: 3.32 90-232 Łódź
e-mail: aczernek@wpia.uni.lodz.pl
Kopcińskiego 8/12
90-232 Łódź
Kopcińskiego 8/12 room: 3.32 90-232 Łódź