| Ewa Łętowska | |
| Order: | 1st Ombudsman for Citizen Rights |
| Term Start: | 1 January 1988 |
| Term End: | 13 February 1992 |
| President: | Wojciech Jaruzelski Lech Wałęsa |
| Primeminister: | Zbigniew Messner Mieczysław Rakowski Czesław Kiszczak Tadeusz Mazowiecki Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Jan Olszewski |
| Predecessor: | Tadeusz Zieliński |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Warsaw |
| Education: | University of Warsaw |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Awards: | Friedrich Ebert Foundation Human Rights Award (1994) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011) |
Ewa Łętowska (pronounced: ; born 22 March 1940 in Warsaw) is a Polish lawyer, a specialist in civil law and professor of legal science. Since 1985, she has worked at the Institute of Law of the Polish Academy of Sciences and since 1997, she has been a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1988, she became the first person to be appointed the Ombudsman for Citizen Rights in Poland. Between 1999 and 2002, she served as a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland and between 2002 and 2011 as a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.
She was born as Ewa Ołtarzewska on 22 March 1940 in Warsaw.[1] In 1962, she graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. In 1968, she obtained a doctoral degree and in 1975 a habilitation in civil law. In 1986, she was granted the title of professor of legal science. Between 1977 and 1987 she was head of the Department of Civil Law of the Institute of Law at the Polish Academy of Sciences.[2]
After the introduction of the post of ombudsman for Citizen Rights in Poland she became the first person to hold this office, which she assumed on 1 January 1988 and left on 13 February 1992. Between 1999 and 2002, she served as a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland. In 2002 she was appointed a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal after receiving endorsement from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Polish People's Party (PSL) and Labour Union (UP).[3]
She worked as professor at the Institute of Legal Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences[4] and was a visiting professor at numerous universities including the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She has been a member of many organizations such as Collegium Invisibile,[5] Helsinki Committee, Experts' Committee of the International Labour Organization, International Lawyers' Council Académie de Droit Comparé, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences[6] and Polish Academy of Sciences Committee.[7]