Andrzej is thrilled about the opportunity to engage in intellectual exchanges and debates with ACIL members and to participate in the centre’s events and seminars. During his time in Amsterdam, he will be working on a book project regarding the concept of cultural justice in international law.

Affiliated with the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Law at the University of Opole, Andrzej currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance of the International Law Association and co-convenor of the Interest Group on the International Law of Culture of the European Society of International Law. He holds a PhD in international law from the European University Institute in Florence, and MA in art history from the University of Warsaw. From 2015 to 2018, he was Project Leader of the Horizon 2020 JPI Heritage (ERANET) research project ‘HEURIGHT - The Right to Cultural Heritage in the European Union’, run by an international consortium of six academic institutions from Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom. He is the author or editor of numerous publications on the protection and management of cultural heritage in both international and European law, including State Succession in Cultural Property, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, and Cultural Rights as Collective Rights: An International Law Perspective, published by Brill in 2016. He is currently co-editing (with Ana F. Vrdoljak and Alessandro Chechi) the Oxford Commentary on the 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions.