Biography
Wojciech Zomerski is a socio-legal scholar specializing in the history of legal thought, the authoritarian legacies of law, and its prospects for democratization. As a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, Wojciech will investigate populist constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary, analysing whether populist constitutional discourse is truly aligned with the practices of populists in power. He aims to determine whether populist discourse has genuine descriptive and normative potential or whether it serves solely as a legitimizing façade.
In 2020, Wojciech defended his PhD thesis on how Polish legal education perpetuates pre-democratic communist legacies, earning recognition from the Polish Section of IVR for the second-best doctoral dissertation in legal theory in 2020-2021. His recent book, W kierunku demokratycznej nauki prawa? Dogmatyka, edukacja, postanalityczność (Towards a Democratic Legal Science? Dogmatics, Education, Post-Analyticity), based on his doctoral research, explores the links between legal culture and the rule of law crisis.
Wojciech has contributed to numerous research projects, including studies on the hidden curriculum of legal education and the legislative placebo. His international experience includes study and research stays at the University of Salzburg, Loyola University New Orleans, and Lund University. With seven years of teaching experience, he has taught various courses to MA law students such as jurisprudence, legal interpretation or logic for lawyers. He is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and an associated researcher at the University of Wrocław.