Andrzej Zoll Explained

Andrzej Stanisław Zoll
Order:4th Ombudsman for Citizen Rights
Term Start:June 30, 2000
Term End:January 27, 2006
President:Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Lech Kaczyński
Primeminister:Jerzy Buzek
Leszek Miller
Marek Belka
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Predecessor:Adam Zieliński
Successor:Janusz Kochanowski
Order2:3rd President of the Constitutional Tribunal
Term Start2:November 19, 1993
Term End2:December 1, 1997
President2:Lech Wałęsa
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Primeminister2:Waldemar Pawlak
Józef Oleksy
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Jerzy Buzek
Predecessor2:Mieczysław Tyczka
Successor2:Marek Safjan
Birth Date:27 May 1942
Birth Place:Sieniawa, Poland
Profession:Lawyer

Andrzej Stanisław Zoll (born 27 May 1942) is a Polish lawyer, former judge and president of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, former Polish Ombudsman, former president of the State Electoral Commission, former president of the Legislative Council, co-author of the Polish Penal Code of 1997. Professor of criminal law at the Jagiellonian University.

Biography

Andrzej Zoll was born in Sieniawa, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in 1964. He earned his Ph.D. in 1968, and a habilitated doctor's title in 1973. In 1988 he became professor of legal sciences. Since 1994 he heads the Chair of Criminal Law of the Jagiellonian University.

In 1989 he took part in the Round Table Negotiations as Solidarity’s legal expert.[1]

Zoll is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the European Art and Science Academy in Salzburg. Between 1989 and 1993, he served as a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and between 1990 and 1993 he was chairman of the State Electoral Committee. In 2002, he was appointed deputy director at the European Ombudsman Institute. Since 2000 until 2006, he served as Polish Ombudsman for Citizens' Rights.

He is also the author of 3 monographs and above 150 other publications in the area of criminal and constitutional law and philosophy of law, and a member of the Committee on Ethics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as the Department of History and Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Learning, and Curator of the Association of Law Students' Library of the Jagiellonian University.

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  1. News: Architekci wolnej Polski . 14 August 2020.
  2. Web site: Reply to a parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour . German . 1145 .