William Nikolakis, ed., Land Rights Now: Global Voices on Indigenous Peoples and Land Justice , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp. 364

I was born on 19 July 1977 in Lublin, Poland. Between 1992 and 1996 I attended Mikołaj Kopernik Secondary School of General Education No. 9 in Lublin (class with an extended programme in biology and chemistry). In 1996, I began studies in law at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Having prepared a master's thesis under the supervision of prof. Anna Przyborowska-Klimaczak, on 21 June 2001 I passed a master's exam with a very good result and received an MA degree in law.

Between 2001 and 2005 I completed doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the Catholic University of Lublin. On 26 June 2007, I defended a doctoral dissertation prepared under the supervision of prof. Stanisław Wrzosek (reviewers: prof. Stefan Korycki and prof. Maciej Rudnicki). On 25 September 2007, by the unanimous resolution of the Council of the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, I was granted the PhD degree in law, specialisation: administrative law.

Since 1 October 2007, I have held the position of an adiunkt [associate professor] at the Department of Administration (formerly the Department of Judicial and Administrative Proceedings and the Department of Civil Law) of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw Management Academy (since 2015, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Administration). I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Warsaw Management Academy Publishing House (since 2010); member of the Legal Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Lublin Branch (since 2011); member of the Legal Department of the Scientific Society at the Catholic University of Lublin (since 2013); reviewer in “Scientific Journal of Students” - the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University (from 2018); reviewer in "Konteksty Społeczne" - the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of the Maria Curie Skłodowska University (from 2019); member of the Association of Alumni and Friends of the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Lublin (from 2018); member of the Polish Association of Law & Economics (from 2018). Between 2009-2014 I was the secretary of prof. Mieczysław Sawczuk (1930-2014), MAE.