06 Mai 2019

Open Letter in Support of Professor Wojciech Sadurski

Two months ago Armin von Bogdandy and Luke Dimitrios Spieker highlighted the plight of our colleague Wojciech Sadurski, a distinguished professor of law at the Universities of Sydney and Warsaw, and formerly at the European University Institute in Florence.  Professor Sadurski finds himself facing an array of charges and lawsuits in Poland for his outspoken criticism of the governing party, PiS.  As von Bogdandy and Spieker pointed out, such attempts to silence critics are not solely a matter of Polish law but also of European Union law and European human rights law, particularly in the context of the ongoing Article 7 TEU procedure against Poland. But matters have continued to worsen since that time for Sadurski, who has been targeted by no less than three sets of legal proceedings aimed at silencing him and punishing him for speaking out.  We write to draw attention to the legal harassment of Professor Sadurski by the Polish government and its allies, to the right of academics across the European Union to freely speak out and to criticize political leaders, and to publicly express our support for Wojciech Sadurksi.

The background is this: On 10 November 2018 Wojciech Sadurski called upon Polish citizens to boycott a so-called “Independence March” to be held in Warsaw. He tweeted: “If anyone still had any doubts, after the maneuver of the past two days this much should be clear: no honest person should go in a parade of defenders of the White race, who have hidden for a moment their “falangas” [a neo-Nazi symbol] and swastikas, in collusion with an organized criminal group PiS”.  On 13 January 2019, shortly after the murder of Gdańsk Mayor Mr Paweł Adamowicz, Sadurski tweeted that a politician was killed after he had been hounded by government media, and stated that no democrat and opposition politician should enter the premises of TVP, a public television station, which he described as a Goebbelsian media company.

These two tweets led to three currently pending cases. The first, a civil suit lodged on 21 January 2019 by PiS and signed by its President, Jarosław Kaczyński, alleged that the personal rights of PiS were affected by characterizing the party as an ‘organised criminal group’. This characterization was also said by PiS to insult thousands of its members. PiS has demanded a public apology through a pinned tweet expressing regret for breaching its good name, payment of a high fine to be donated to a charity, as well as a commitment that he would never again refer to PiS in a similar way.  The second tweet led to a criminal case dated 21 January 2019, and to a civil case dated 20 March 2019, both brought by a state-run television TVP. The argument made in these two cases is that the tweet amounts to intentional and deliberate defamation as well as adversely affecting the personal rights of the TV station through its suggestion of a link between the manner of the station’s reporting and the murder of the Mayor. TVP also argues that the tweet would have a negative impact on the TV station’s reputation and on its commercial partners, particularly its advertisers.  TVP argues that Sadurski should pay a fine, to be donated to a charity, and should publicly apologise by purchasing an expensive advertisement in a top Polish web portal.  

All three cases are currently pending.  And while we respect and support the independence of the Polish courts and hope that they will be able to perform their functions freely and without interference, ongoing measures in Poland to undermine the independence of the judiciary and to assert disciplinary political control over the courts create grave cause for concern.   

It is clear to any observer with the most elementary knowledge of EU law and the law of the European Convention on Human Rights that the three cases against Professor Sadurski will not survive the scrutiny of the Strasbourg (ECHR) or Luxembourg (EU) courts. What is happening to Wojciech Sadurski is a coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party against a well-known and respected academic who has clearly struck a nerve with his powerful critique of the situation in his native country. 

Does the Polish ruling party really want to continue this futile and expensive campaign of legal harassment through the lengthy procedural routes to the Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts, given the inevitability of further high-profile and authoritative rulings against it?  We hope not and we suggest that the rational self-interest of the Polish government should prevail.  We call upon PiS to reconsider its position and immediately drop its case against Wojciech Sadurski, and to require TVP, which is financed through public resources, to do the same with its two cases. 

We write this letter not only in support of our academic colleague Wojciech Sadurski, but also to make the broader point that any attempt to silence any one of us who writes for and reads publications such as this one is an attempt to repress and silence all of us. Freedom of expression safeguards robust criticism of governmental and political action, and all the more so in a context in which there has been widespread criticism by independent observers of the actions of the national authorities to undermine the rule of law. We write today to speak out and to stand up for that freedom.  

To co-sign this open letter, please leave a comment with your name and affiliation!

Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and Yale Law School

Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris

Philip Alston, New York University

Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School

Petra Bárd, Central European University 

Christine Bell, University of Edinburgh

Bojan Bugaric, Professor of Law, Department of law, Sheffield University

Gráinne de Búrca, New York University 

Daniela Caruso, Boston University 

Sujit Choudhry, WZB Social Science Center, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Berlin

Paul Craig, University of Oxford

Deirdre Curtin, Professor of European Law, European University Institute Florence 

Tom Gerald Daly, MLS Fellow, Melbourne Law School 

Bruno De Witte, Professor of European Union law, Maastricht University

Oran Doyle, Trinity College Dublin

Cynthia Estlund, New York University

Owen Fiss, Yale Law School

Janneke Gerards, Professor of Fundamental Rights Law, Utrecht University 

Laurence Gormley, University of Groningen

Samuel Issacharoff, New York University 

Gábor Halmai, European University Institute 

Aileen Kavanagh, Oxford University

R. Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science and Law, Rutgers University

David Kenny, Assistant Professor Law, Trinity College Dublin

Tarun Khaitan, Associate Professor, University of Oxford/University of Melbourne

David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law, Sydney Law School

Claire Kilpatrick, Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law, Dean of Graduate Studies, European University Institute,Florence, Italy

Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen 

Tomasz Koncewicz, University of Gdańsk 

Kriszta Kovács, ELTE/WZB Berlin

Martin Krygier, Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of New South Wales

Mattias Kumm, Professor for Global Public Law, WZB Berlin & Humboldt University, Inge Rennert Professor of Law New York University

Christine Landfried, University of Hamburg 

Rick Lawson, University of Leiden

Brian Leiter, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, Director, Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, University of Chicago

Susanna Mancini, Full Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Bologna

Daniel Markovits, Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, Founding Director, Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School

Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus Harvard University

John Morijn, University of Groningen 

Jan-Werner Mueller, Professor, Princeton University

Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Gianluigi Palombella, Professor of Applied Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa 

Laurent Pech, Middlesex University 

Vlad Perju, Professor, Boston College Law School

Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law 

Gianfranco Poggi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Virginia

Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Judith Resnik, Yale Law School

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law, Emeritus, and Professorial Lecturer,Yale Law School

Michel Rosenfeld, University Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Cardozo Law School

Ruth Rubio Marin, University of Sevilla and European University Institute, Florence

Ben Saul, Challis Chair of International Law, University of Sydney and Chair of Australian Studies, Harvard University

Joanne Scott, Professor of European Union Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy 

Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University

Michael Sevel, Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School 

Maximilian Steinbeis, Verfassungsblog

Alec Stone Sweet, Centennial Professor of Law, National University of Singapore

John Tasioulas, Director, Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law, the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London

Gábor Attila Tóth, Humboldt University Berlin 

Antoine Vauchez, Professor, Université de Paris 1-Sorbonne

Jeremy Waldron, New York University

Neil Walker, Edinburgh Law School

Kevin Walton, Director of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney

Stephen Weatherill, Jacques Delors Professor of European Law Somerville College and Law Faculty University of Oxford

Jan Wouters, University of Leuven


SUGGESTED CITATION  de Búrca, Gráinne; Morijn, John: Open Letter in Support of Professor Wojciech Sadurski, VerfBlog, 2019/5/06, https://verfassungsblog.de/open-letter-in-support-of-professor-wojciech-sadurski/, DOI: 10.17176/20190517-144045-0.

729 Comments

  1. Samuel Moyn Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 08:55 - Reply

    Samuel Moyn, Yale University

    • Miroslaw Wyrzykowski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:08 - Reply

      Mirosław Wyrzykowski
      Prof. emeritus University of Warsaw, Poland

      • John Jeremiah Cronin So 12 Mai 2019 at 14:40 - Reply

        John J Cronin,alumnus EUI

    • Iain Stewart, Macquarie University, Sydney So 4 Okt 2020 at 01:38 - Reply

      Support!

  2. Henri de Waele Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 09:18 - Reply

    Henri de Waele, Radboud University Nijmegen/University of Antwerp

    • Yasmin Dawood Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:39 - Reply

      Yasmin Dawood
      Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

  3. Eva Lohse Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 11:20 - Reply

    Eva Julia Lohse, Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Europarecht und Rechtsvergleichung, Universität Bayreuth

  4. Raul Sanchez Urribarri Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 11:30 - Reply

    Raul Sanchez Urribarri, La Trobe University, Melbourne

    • Maciej Mi 8 Mai 2019 at 07:37 - Reply

      Truth win!

  5. Darinka Piqani Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 11:33 - Reply

    Darinka Piqani, Leiden University

    • Gavin Phillipson, University of Bristol Law School. Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:13 - Reply

      I fully support Prof Sadurski.

    • Adam Shinar Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:56 - Reply

      Adam Shinar, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

  6. Xavier Arbos Marin Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 11:55 - Reply

    Xavier Arbos Marin, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Barcelona

    • Tove H. Malloy Mo 18 Nov 2019 at 21:45 - Reply

      Tove H. Malloy, Professor Europa-Universität Flensburg

    • Ryszard Piotrowicz So 4 Okt 2020 at 07:03 - Reply

      I agree with the content of the open letter, and condemn the actions directed at Prof Sadursku.

  7. Anna Katharina Mangold Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:01 - Reply

    Anna Katharina Mangold, Europa-Universität Flensburg

  8. Steffen Ganghof Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:06 - Reply

    Steffen Ganghof, University of Potsdam

  9. John Parkinson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:17 - Reply

    John Parkinson, Professor of Social & Political Philosophy, Maastricht

  10. Massimo Fichera Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:18 - Reply

    Massimo Fichera, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki

  11. Radosveta Vassileva Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:37 - Reply

    Radosveta Vassileva, UCL

  12. Ming-Sung Kuo Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:39 - Reply

    Ming-Sung Kuo, University of Warwick School of Law

  13. Marcin. Koslowski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:39 - Reply

    You stand up for the freedom of Sadurksi’s excessive hate speech!

  14. Michael Waibel Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:41 - Reply

    Michael Waibel, University of Cambridge

  15. Argelia Queralt Jiménez Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:42 - Reply

    I would like to sign the letter supporting prof. Sadurski. Prof. Argelia Queralt-Jiménez, University of Barcelon

  16. Adam Krzywoń Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:50 - Reply

    Adam Krzywoń, Constitutional Law Departement, University of Warsaw

  17. Eduardo Vírgala-Foruria Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:56 - Reply

    Eduardo Vírgala-Foruria, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of the Basque Country, Spain

  18. Susana de la Sierra Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 12:59 - Reply

    Susana de la Sierra, LL.M. (Bayreuth), Ph.D. (EUI, Florence), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

  19. Ioanna Tourkochoriti Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 13:00 - Reply

    Ioanna Tourkochoriti, Lecturer Above the Bar, School of Law NUI Galway

  20. Jose Luis Marti Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 13:09 - Reply

    José Luis Martí, Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)

  21. Liam Murphy Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 13:55 - Reply

    Liam Murphy, New York University

  22. A. Drzemczewski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:05 - Reply

    What is happening is indeed a coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party against Wojciech Sadurski.

    Andrew Drzemczewski
    Visiting Professor School of Law Middlesex University London, former Head of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs & Human Rights, Council of Europe,Strasbourg

    • Andrzej Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:29 - Reply

      Szanowny Panie,
      przepisy o karaniu osób za zniewagę, czy zniesławienie art. 212 i nst. k.k. obowiązują w Polskiej procedurze od lat. I nawet nowy kodeks karny, który wszedł w życie po obaleniu komunizmu w Polsce z tych przepisów nie zrezygnował. Co więcej wiele osób, w tym dziennikarz, została prawomocnie skazanych na ich podstawie i to nie tylko za obrażanie PIS, ale również Platformy Obywatelskiej (kolegów prof. Sadurskiego), PSL, czy SLD.
      Ale proszę się nie obawiać o losy Pana profesora. Dzięki bowiem Sądowi Najwyższemu orzekającemu przeciwko Jarosławowi Kaczyńskiemu powstała praktyka, która zmusi sądy do uniewinnienia Pana profesora.
      Pan Jarosław Kaczyński w jednej z wypowiedzi w programie Moniki Olejnik nazwał SLD organizacją przestępczą, stwierdził, że to udowodni i partię tę zdelegalizuje.
      Wypowiedzią tą poczuł się obrażony jeden z działaczy SLD, który nigdy nie uważał siebie za przestępcę i członka grupy przestępczej czy mafii. Wytoczył więc on powództwo Jarosławowi Kaczyńskiemu o naruszenie dóbr osobistych. Sprawa ta trafiła do Sądu Najwyższego i s.s.n. Iwona Koper uznała, że członków SLD jest tak dużo, że są mało identyfikowalni. Jeżeli nie można zidentyfikować kogoś w ramach przynależności do grupy, to nie można go obrazić, lżyc zbiorowość do której należy. Nadto sama obraza musi być obiektywna a nie subiektywna.
      Dlatego też zgodnie z twierdzeniem s.s.n. Iwony Koper lżąc PIS, jako organizację falangistów, antysemitów, nazistów, czy innych prawicowych zbrodniarzy nie można obrazić jego członków, a więc prowadzone w tej kwestii przeciwko prof. Sadurskiemu sprawy należy umorzyć.

      Pozdrawiam,
      Andrzej Zając
      partner zarządzający Kancelarii Instytutu Praktyki Prawniczej

      https://www.facebook.com/kancelariaipp/

  23. Jernej Letnar Černič Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:12 - Reply

    Jernej Letnar Černič, Associate Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, New university, Faculty of Government and European Studies, Slovenia.

  24. Matej Avbelj Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:14 - Reply

    Matej Avbelj, New University, Slovenia

  25. Violeta Besirevic Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:18 - Reply

    Violeta Besirevic,Union University Law School Belgrade & CEU,CELAB

    • Daniel Smilov, University of Sofia So 4 Okt 2020 at 13:32 - Reply

      Full support for professor Sadurski

  26. Peter Oliver, University of Ottawa Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:19 - Reply

    Peter Oliver
    Faculty of Law
    University of Ottawa

    • Matthias Goldmann Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:23 - Reply

      Matthias Goldmann, Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.

  27. Marie Laure BASILIEN GAINCHE Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:32 - Reply

    Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Professor of Lax, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Honorarium member of the Institut Universitaire de France

  28. Sebastien Platon Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:38 - Reply

    Sébastien Platon, Professor of Public Law, University of Bordeaux

  29. Saša Zagorc Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:39 - Reply

    Saša Zagorc, University of Ljubljana

  30. Jurij Toplak Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:42 - Reply

    Jurij Toplak, University of Maribor and Alma Mater Europaea

  31. Wojciech Polak Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:42 - Reply

    You are biased. What is happening actually is a harassment of the Polish government by Prof. Sadurski, who attacks the PIS party.

  32. Adam Malinowski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:46 - Reply

    Everybody knows in Poland that Prof. Sadurski is a hajer. https://dorzeczy.pl/kraj/83698/Profesor-hejter.html

  33. Roxana Vornicu Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:53 - Reply

    Roxana Vornicu, Fellow, Centre for Good Governance Studies, Babes Bolyay University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  34. Koen Lemmens Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:53 - Reply

    I support Professor Sadurski’s freedom of speech!

  35. Jiri Priban Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:54 - Reply

    Jiří Přibáň
    Cardiff University

  36. Lilian Tsourdi Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 14:57 - Reply

    Lilian Tsourdi, University of Oxford

  37. Tom Theuns Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:03 - Reply

    Tom Theuns, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  38. Robert D. Sloane Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:04 - Reply

    Professor of Law and R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law

  39. Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:04 - Reply

    I would like to support prof Sadurski

  40. Jaakko Husa Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:07 - Reply

    Jaakko Husa
    Professor in Law and Globalisation
    University of Helsinki

  41. Kai Purnhagen Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:08 - Reply

    Kai Purnhagen, Wageningen University and Erasmus University of Rotterdam

  42. GEORGE A. HAY Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:10 - Reply

    George A. Hay
    Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law and Professor of Economics
    Cornell University

  43. dennis Patterson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:12 - Reply

    Dennis Patterson
    Board of Governors Professor of Law and Philosophy
    Rutgers University

  44. Jamie Glister Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:14 - Reply

    Jamie Glister, University of Cambridge

  45. Paul James Cardwell Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:18 - Reply

    Paul James Cardwell
    Professor of Law
    University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

  46. Mauro Gatti Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:18 - Reply

    Mauro Gatti, The Hague University of Applied Sciences

    • Urszula Iwaszczuk So 12 Mai 2019 at 07:09 - Reply

      Urszula Iwaszczuk, University of Warsaw

  47. Antoni Abat Ninet Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:18 - Reply

    Antoni Abat i Ninet
    Prof. Comparative Constitutional Law
    University of Copenhagen
    Denmark

    • Anthony lester QC Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:52 - Reply

      Anthony Lester QC
      Blackstone Chambers
      London EX4Y 9BW

  48. Jeffrey L. Dunoff Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:22 - Reply

    Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

  49. Julia Domnick Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:22 - Reply

    Julia Domnick, Kammergericht Berlin

  50. Jo Shaw Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:23 - Reply

    Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh/Tampere University

  51. Freerick Schauer Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:28 - Reply

    Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia

  52. Luis Arroyo Jiménez Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:31 - Reply

    Luis Arroyo Jiménez
    Jean Monnet Chair of European Administrative Law
    University of Castilla-La Mancha

  53. Agata Fijalkowski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:32 - Reply

    Agata Fijalkowski, Lancaster University Law School

    • Boyd van Dijk Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:15 - Reply

      Boyd van Dijk, University of Amsterdam.

  54. Antonia Baraggia Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:35 - Reply

    Antonia Baraggia, University of Milan

  55. Clare Huntington Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:36 - Reply

    Clare Huntington
    Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law
    Fordham Law School

  56. Ann-Christine Hartzén Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:36 - Reply

    Ann-Christine Hartzén, lecturer in legal science, Linnæus university

  57. Matthew Weait Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:37 - Reply

    Matthew Weait
    Professor of Law and Society
    University of Portsmouth

  58. Richard Kay Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:43 - Reply

    Richard S Kay
    University of Connecticut School of Law

  59. Germán Teruel Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:43 - Reply

    Germán M. Teruel Lozano, University of Murcia

  60. David Driesen Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:46 - Reply

    This sort of harassment must stop.

  61. James Chalmers Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:49 - Reply

    James Chalmers, University of Glasgow

  62. Scott Shapiro Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:53 - Reply

    Scott Shapiro, Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

  63. Therese Murphy Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 15:55 - Reply

    Therese Murphy, Queen’s University Belfast

  64. Romain Tiniere Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:02 - Reply

    Romain Tinière, professor of public Law, University of Grenoble,

  65. Ethan J Leib Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:04 - Reply

    Ethan J Leib, John D Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

    • Gustavo Beade Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:59 - Reply

      Gustavo A. Beade
      Universidad de Buenos Aires

  66. Virginia Mantouvalou Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:06 - Reply

    Virginia Mantouvalou, Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law, University College London, Faculty of Laws

  67. Barbara Koczorowska Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:06 - Reply

    I support Professor Sadurski fight for freedom and human rights in Poland.
    Barbara Koczorowska, retired French teacher, Jagellonian University,Cracow

  68. Hasan Dindjer Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:07 - Reply

    Hasan Dindjer, University of Oxford

  69. Armen Mazmanyan Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:10 - Reply

    Armen Mazmanyan, American University of Armenia and Central European University

  70. Maria Popova Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:10 - Reply

    Prof Sadurski should be free to express his views, regardless of whether there are biased/misguided or not! I support this statement.
    Maria Popova, McGill University

  71. Erin Delaney Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:11 - Reply

    Erin Delaney, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

  72. Lea Ypi Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:14 - Reply

    Lea Ypi, London School of Economics and Political Science

  73. Bernard Keenan Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:18 - Reply

    Bernard Keenan, Birkbeck, University of London

  74. Petra Guasti Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:20 - Reply

    Petra Guasti, Goethe University Frankfurt

  75. Dr. Deirdre L. Hay, Director of LLM & International Career Services, Cornell Law School Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:23 - Reply

    I am so sorry Woiciech! Dreadful!

    • Caunes So 23 Jun 2019 at 09:08 - Reply

      Karine Caunes, EUI alumni, course director, ERA, expert advisor for LREM on the rule of law, Responsable Europe, LREM Moselle (57), France
      Don’t hesitate to contact me to see what could be done on a political level…

  76. Paul Linden-Retek Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:25 - Reply

    Paul Linden-Retek, New York University School of Law

  77. Ronan McCrea Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:25 - Reply

    Ronan McCrea
    Professor of Constitutional and European Law, University College London

  78. Anna Sledzinska-Simon Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:25 - Reply

    Anna Śledzińska-Simon, University of Wrocław

  79. Bruno Mestre, PhD (EUI), Judge at Portuguese Courts Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:27 - Reply

    The Judicial System should never be used as a means of silencing political criticism. The case-law of the ECHR and the CJEU must be respected and implemented at the national level.
    Bruno Mestre, PhD (EUI), Judge at Portuguese Courts.

  80. Francoise Hampson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:27 - Reply

    Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK

  81. Maria Bergström Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:31 - Reply

    Maria Bergström, University of Uppsala

  82. Verity Bell Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:34 - Reply

    Verity Bell, Faculty of Laws, University College London

  83. Lukasz Gruszczynski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:36 - Reply

    Lukasz Gruszczynski, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

  84. Suryapratim Roy Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:38 - Reply

    Suryapratim Roy, Assistant Professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin

  85. Stefan Auer Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:39 - Reply

    Stefan Auer
    Jean Monnet Chair
    The University of Hong Kong

  86. Cormac MAC AMHLAIGH Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:39 - Reply

    Cormac MAC AMHLAIGH, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh.

  87. Michael Bernhard, Ehrlich Professor of Political Science, University of Florida Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:42 - Reply

    n/a

  88. Aspa Theochari Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:46 - Reply

    Aspa Theochari, PhD Candidate in Administrative Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  89. Carl Fredrik Bergström Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:46 - Reply

    I cosign the letter, Carl Fredrik Bergström, Professor Uppsala University Sweden

  90. Anna Jonsson Cornell Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:49 - Reply

    Anna Jonsson Cornell, professor, Faculty of Law Uppsala University, Sweden

  91. Emily Kidd White Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:51 - Reply

    Emily Kidd White
    Osgoode Hall Law School

  92. Ammon Cheskin, University of Glasgow Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 16:53 - Reply

    In support of freedom to criticise political parties and leaders.

  93. Zane Rasnaca Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:05 - Reply

    Zane Rasnača, ETUI and KU Leuven

  94. Michael Hamilton, University of East Anglia Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:06 - Reply

    Michael Hamilton,Senior Lecturer in Public Protest Law, University of East Anglia

  95. Julia Chryssostalis Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:07 - Reply

    Julia Chryssostalis, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster

  96. Mihaela Serban Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:07 - Reply

    Mihaela Serban, Associate Professor of Law and Society, Ramapo College of New Jersey

  97. Bastian Steuwer Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:08 - Reply

    Bastian Steuwer
    London School of Economics and Political Science

  98. Ben Stanley Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:09 - Reply

    Ben Stanley, Associate Professor, SWPS University, Warsaw

    • Sebastian Kornhauser Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:34 - Reply

      University College London

  99. Myra Waterbury Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:10 - Reply

    Myra Waterbury, Professor of Political Science, Ohio University

  100. Jacek Kucharczyk Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:10 - Reply

    I support professor Sadurski – dr Jacek Kucharczyk, President, Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw.

  101. Tom Hickey Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:12 - Reply

    Tom Hickey, Dublin City University

  102. Dr. Michael Hein Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:13 - Reply

    Michael Hein, Adult Education Center Altenburg

  103. John Bogart Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:14 - Reply

    John Bogart
    Independent Scholar

  104. Fiona de Londras Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:16 - Reply

    Fiona de Londras, Professor of Global Legal Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

  105. Ben Tonra Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:17 - Reply

    In full support. Professor Ben Tonra, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin

  106. Romuald Jagodziński Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:19 - Reply

    As both Polish and member of the international research community I wholeheartedly suport Prof. Sadurski in his struggle against the enemies of freedom of speech, human rights and respect for law. Romuald Jagodziński, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels.

  107. Annette Clancy Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:20 - Reply

    In full support

  108. Jane Marian Rooney Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:23 - Reply

    Jane Rooney, Bristol University

    • Maxine David Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:31 - Reply

      In full support.
      Dr Maxine David, Lecturer in European Politics, Leiden University.

  109. Deirdre Duffy Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:24 - Reply

    Deirdre Duffy, Manchester Metropolitan University

  110. Ben Heath Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:25 - Reply

    J. Benton Heath, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU School of Law

  111. Michael O’Boyle Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:29 - Reply

    No government is immune from criticism even in the harshest and provocative manner.

  112. Billy Melo Araujo Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:31 - Reply

    Billy Melo Araujo, Queen’s University Belfast

  113. Jen Hendry Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:32 - Reply

    Jen Hendry, Associate Professor of Law & Social Justice, University of Leeds

    • Yaniv Roznai Fr 10 Mai 2019 at 14:03 - Reply

      Dr. Yaniv Roznai, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

  114. Monika Florczak-Wątor Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:33 - Reply

    Monika Florczak-Wątor, Jagiellonian University

  115. Richard Albert Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:37 - Reply

    Richard Albert
    Willliam Stamps Farish Professor of Law
    The University of Texas at Austin

  116. Rory O'Connell Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:40 - Reply

    Rory O’Connell, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University

  117. Philippe Reyniers Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:41 - Reply

    Philippe Reyniers, Utrecht University

  118. Henry J. Steiner, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:43 - Reply

    I support Professor Sadurski

  119. Joe Tomlinson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:47 - Reply

    Joe Tomlinson, King’s College London

  120. Christopher Zurn Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:47 - Reply

    Christopher F. Zurn
    Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Boston

  121. Lorenzo Zucca Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:49 - Reply

    I fully support Wojciech Sadurski

  122. I fully support Professor Sadurski.

  123. Matthew Happold Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:53 - Reply

    Matthew Happold, University of Luxembourg

  124. Alexei Trochev Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:54 - Reply

    I support Professor Sadurski

  125. Prof Mikael Rask Madsen Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:54 - Reply

    Fully support

  126. Marise Cremona Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:57 - Reply

    Marise Cremona, Emeritus Professor, European University Institute Florence

  127. Milada Anna Vachudova Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 17:57 - Reply

    Milada Anna Vachudova
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  128. Lorenzo Zucca, Professor of Law and Philosophy, King’s College London Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:10 - Reply

    Lorenzo Zucca
    Professor of Law and Philosophy
    School of Law
    King’s College London

  129. Grant Lamond, University of Oxford Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:11 - Reply

    I fully support Professor Sadurski.

  130. Elaine Fahey Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:14 - Reply

    Elaine Fahey, City Law School, City, University of London, UK

  131. Aviel Roshwald Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:14 - Reply

    This anti-intellectual campaign can only harm the reputation of the Polish government and ruling party. I urge that it be dropped immediately.

  132. Michael Toomey Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:19 - Reply

    Michael Toomey, Departments of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading

  133. James Grant Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:21 - Reply

    James Grant, King’s College London

  134. Peter Lindseth Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:24 - Reply

    Peter L. Lindseth
    Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law
    University of Connecticut School of Law

  135. Prof Siobhán Mullally Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:24 - Reply

    In support, recognising the critical importance of academic freedom to democracy and public debate.

  136. Monica Eppinger Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:25 - Reply

    Monica Eppinger,
    Saint Louis University School of Law
    and Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
    St. Louis, Missouri, USA

  137. James Dawson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:27 - Reply

    James Dawson,
    Coventry University

  138. Mauro Zamboni Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:28 - Reply

    Mauro Zamboni, Professor in Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden

    • Irene Baghoomians Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:31 - Reply

      Irene Baghoomians,
      University of Sydney

  139. em. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benedek Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:28 - Reply

    I support the open letter.

    • Przemyslaw Tacik Mi 8 Mai 2019 at 21:11 - Reply

      Przemyslaw Tacik, Jagiellonian University

  140. Ralf Michaels Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:30 - Reply

    Ralf Michaels
    Duke University

  141. Conor Crummey Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:33 - Reply

    Conor Crummey, UCL Laws

    • Adam Czarnota Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:45 - Reply

      Adam Czarnota
      University of New South Wales

  142. Bernhard Beliak Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:34 - Reply

    I support freedom of expression including criticizing the current government.

  143. Veronika Fikfak Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:36 - Reply

    Veronika Fikfak
    University of Cambridge

  144. Bela Greskovits, CEU Budapest Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:50 - Reply

    Freedom for critical scholarship!

  145. David Fennelly Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:50 - Reply

    David Fennelly, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin

  146. Stuart Russell Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:50 - Reply

    Stuart Russell, Macquarie University School of Law, Sydney Australia (retired)

  147. Ali Acar Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:52 - Reply

    Ali Acar
    Cankaya University, Faculty of Law

  148. Pedro Serrano Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 18:55 - Reply

    As a professor of constitutional law, I fully support Professor Sadurski. In Brazil, we have been going through times of authoritarianism and attacks on academic freedow , as well

    Pedro Serrano, Professor na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

  149. Ertug Tombus Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:01 - Reply

    Ertug Tombus
    Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

  150. William A. Edmundson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:07 - Reply

    William A. Edmundson, Regents‘ Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University (USA)

  151. Barbara Grabowska-Moroz Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:09 - Reply

    Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, University of Groningen, postdoc

  152. Christian Hiebaum Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:11 - Reply

    Christian Hiebaum, University of Graz

  153. Peter Schulte Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:16 - Reply

    Peter Schulte, Bielefeld University

  154. Kinch Hoekstra Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:20 - Reply

    Kinch Hoekstra, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

  155. Katarzyna Jezierska Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:24 - Reply

    Katarzyna Jezierska, University West, Sweden

  156. Clara Rauchegger Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:25 - Reply

    Clara Rauchegger, University of Innsbruck

  157. Jason Stanley Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:29 - Reply

    I would like to sign the letter of support – Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale

  158. Hylton White Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:33 - Reply

    Hylton White
    Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
    University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

  159. Evan J Morrison Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:34 - Reply

    Evan Jovon Morrison, predoctoral candidate, University of Colorado-Denver

  160. Roger Schoenman Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:35 - Reply

    Roger Schoenman, University of California, Santa Cruz

  161. Olga Wysocka Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:38 - Reply

    Olga Wysocka, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art

  162. Claudiu Tufis Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:38 - Reply

    Claudiu Tufis, University of Bucharest

  163. Hubert Tworzecki Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:39 - Reply

    Hubert Tworzecki, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University, Atlanta.

  164. Ronald C. Den Otter, Professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:41 - Reply

    In full support.

  165. SB Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:44 - Reply

    Svetlana S. Bodrunova, St.Petersburg State University

  166. Carole Lyons Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:45 - Reply

    Carole Lyons, Law School, RGU Aberdeen

  167. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:45 - Reply

    Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

  168. Antoine Buyse Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:50 - Reply

    Antoine Buyse, professor of Human Rights, Utrecht University

  169. Mariano Garcia-Pechuan Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:50 - Reply

    Mariano García-Pechuán, Profesor Titular, Universitat de València, Spain
    I’m also committed to the support of the valiant efforts by Prof. Dr. Sadurski as debellator against the autoritarian downspiralling so sadly ongoing in Poland !/ Hiermit möechte meine uneingeschränkte Solidarität zu unseren Kollegen, Herrn Prof. Dr. Sadurski, aussprechen. Der autoritären Sackgasse in Poland soll man eine klare Absage erteilen !

  170. Andrei A. Buckareff Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:51 - Reply

    Andrei A. Buckareff, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

  171. Natasha Wilson, University College London Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:52 - Reply

    Natasha Wilson, University College London

  172. Dr. Zoltán Gábor Szűcs Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:52 - Reply

    In full support

  173. Kevin W. Gray Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 19:57 - Reply

    Kevin W. Gray, Osgoode Hall Law School

  174. Andres Moles Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:13 - Reply

    Andrés Moles, Central European University

  175. Michael Marten Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:17 - Reply

    Michael Marten, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

  176. Rui P Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:18 - Reply

    Rui Miguel Pereira, EHESS

  177. Simon Drugda Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:23 - Reply

    Simon Drugda, University of Copenhagen

  178. Henry Reichman Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:24 - Reply

    Henry Reichman, chair, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure; Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay

  179. Bernhard Wegener Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:28 - Reply

    Prof. Dr. Bernhard W. Wegener, Public and European Law, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

  180. Claudina Richards Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:36 - Reply

    Claudina Richards, University of East Anglia

  181. Brigid Laffan Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:37 - Reply

    Professor Brigid Laffan
    Robert Schuman Centre
    EUI, Florence

  182. Aoife Nolan Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:38 - Reply

    Aoife Nolan
    Professor of International Human Rights Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

  183. Kevin Heller Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:39 - Reply

    I would like to sign. Prof. Kevin Jon Heller, Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Law at the Australian National University.

    • Channa Samkalden Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:53 - Reply

      Channa Samkalden
      Partner, Prakken d’Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers, Amsterdam

  184. Dorothee Bohle Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:41 - Reply

    Dorothee Bohle, European University Institute

  185. Katharina Pistor Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:46 - Reply

    Scary when academics who preach the rule of law re under attack by their own states

  186. Mark Weinstein Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:49 - Reply

    Mark Weinstein, University of Southern California (Emeritus)

  187. Natalie Davidson Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:49 - Reply

    Natalie Davidson
    Buchmann Faculty of Law
    Tel aviv University

  188. Professor Alan Bogg Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:50 - Reply

    In solidarity

  189. Renata Nagamine Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:50 - Reply

    Renata Nagamine, Federal University of Bahia (Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA)

  190. Adam Ganz Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:53 - Reply

    Adam Ganz
    Royal Holloway University of London
    in support of Prof. Dr. Sadurski

  191. Maxim Bönnemann Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:54 - Reply

    Maxim Bönnemann, Humboldt University, Berlin

  192. Robert Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:58 - Reply

    Robert Schütze, Durham University and College of Europe

  193. Matthew H. Kramer Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:58 - Reply

    Matthew H. Kramer
    Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy, Cambridge University; Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy

  194. Justin Frosini Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 20:59 - Reply

    Wojciech Sadurski you have my utmost support

  195. Lando Kirchmair Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:00 - Reply

    Lando Kirchmair, University of Salzburg, Bundeswehr University Munich

  196. Kata Moravecz Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:00 - Reply

    Kata Moravecz, University College London

  197. Lars Vinx Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:04 - Reply

    Lars Vinx, University of Cambridge

  198. C. D. C. Reeve Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:09 - Reply

    UNC Chapel Hill

  199. Coel Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:11 - Reply

    Coel Kirkby
    University of Sydney Law School

  200. Ned Block Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:11 - Reply

    Ned Block, Silver Professor, Department of Philosophy, New York University

  201. Roger Albin Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:11 - Reply

    Roger L. Albin, MD
    University of Michigan

  202. Heleen Janssen Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:14 - Reply

    Full support the critical approach of prof. dr. Sadurski.
    Heleen Janssen
    University of Cambridge
    Computer Science and Technology

  203. Stijn Smismans Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:30 - Reply

    Stijn Smismans, Professor of law, Cardiff University

  204. Vassilis P. Tzevelekos Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:35 - Reply

    Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Luiverpool

  205. Mathias Risse, Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, Harvard University Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:35 - Reply

    full support math

  206. David Bartolec Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:36 - Reply

    I wish to add my support to the defense of Professor Sadurski and against this official harassment he is enduring.
    David Bartolec
    American Citizen

  207. Jonathan Parry Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:37 - Reply

    Jonathan Parry
    Department of Philosophy
    The University of Birmingham
    UK

  208. Catherine Morris Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:39 - Reply

    Catherine Morris
    Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law
    Univesrity of Victoria, Canada

  209. Alexander Kirshner Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:45 - Reply

    Alexander Kirshner
    Duke University

  210. Prof. Roman Wieruszewski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:45 - Reply

    I am very grateful to Professor Wojciech Sadurski for all his efforts to defend rule of law in Poland. He enjoys full support of Polish independet lawyers and academic community.

  211. Alexander Somek Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:46 - Reply

    Alexander Somek
    University of Vienna

  212. Akritas Kaidatzis Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:48 - Reply

    Akritas Kaidatzis, Assistant professor of constitutional law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  213. Werner Haslehner Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:48 - Reply

    Werner Haslehner
    Professor of Law
    University of Luxembourg

  214. Linda Bosniak Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:52 - Reply

  215. David Owen Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:54 - Reply

    I fully support her.
    David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Southampton.

  216. Maxim Timofeev Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:56 - Reply

    Maxim Timofeev
    Associate Professor
    European Humanities University

  217. Richard Moorhead, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics, UCL, London. Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:56 - Reply

    Richard Moorhead, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics, UCL, London.

  218. Luke Moffett Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 21:57 - Reply

    Luke Moffett Queens University Belfast

  219. Colm O'Cinneide Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:12 - Reply

    Colm O’Cinneide
    Professor of Law
    UCL

  220. Aaron V Garrett Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:22 - Reply

    Aaron Garrett
    Philosophy
    Boston University

  221. Ulad Belavusau Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:22 - Reply

    Uladzislau Belavusau,
    Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague) / University of Amsterdam

  222. Donncha O’Connell Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:27 - Reply

    Professor Donncha O’Connell,
    School of Law,
    NUI Galway,
    Galway,
    Ireland.

  223. Marta Pardavi Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:28 - Reply

    Márta Pardavi, co-chair, Hungarian Helsinki Committee

  224. Iseult Honohan, University College Dublin Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:32 - Reply

    Iseult Honohan, University College Dublin

  225. steven french Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:40 - Reply

    Steven French
    University of Leeds
    Leeds, UK

  226. In a democratic country like Poland, at the heart of the European Union, there is no place for the curtailment of the freedom of expression and the academic freedom of the highly respected scholar that Prof. Sadurski is.

  227. Ausra Padskocimaite Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:42 - Reply

    Aušra Padskočimaitė, Uppsala University, Sweden

  228. Sarah Poss Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:42 - Reply

    Sarah Poss
    University of Amsterdam

  229. David Mead Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:44 - Reply

    David Mead
    Professor of UK Human Rights Law
    University of East Anglia
    Norwich

  230. Daniel Butt Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:47 - Reply

    Daniel Butt, Balliol College, University of Oxford

  231. Benedikt Pirker Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:49 - Reply

    Benedikt Pirker, University of Fribourg (CH)

  232. Belinda Smith Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:51 - Reply

    Belinda Smith
    University of Sydney Law School

  233. Alex Lefebvre Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 22:58 - Reply

    University of Sydney

  234. Marta Andhov Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:03 - Reply

    Marta Andhov
    Faculty of Law
    University of Copenhagen

  235. Eleanor Spaventa Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:11 - Reply

    Eleanor Spaventa
    School of law
    Bocconi University Milan Italy

  236. Thomas Hurka Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:15 - Reply

    Thomas Hurka
    Department of Philosophy
    University of Toronto

  237. Aris Georgopoulos, School of Law, University of Nottingham Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:19 - Reply

    Solidarnosc inspired many to strive for freedom in Europe and around the world. This legacy of Poland cannot be tainted by the attempts to have academic freedom of speech curtailed. It is simply a reminder that these attempts will fail miserably.

  238. Bartosz Pilecki Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:20 - Reply

    I fully support prof. Sadurski.
    Bartosz Pilecki, PhD
    Institute of Molecular Medicine, Odense, Denmark

  239. Marco Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:23 - Reply

    Marco Bassini
    Law Department
    Bocconi University, Milan

  240. Samuel Scheffler Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:25 - Reply

    New York University

  241. Tim Stephens Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:28 - Reply

    Professor Tim Stephens, Professor of International Law and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, Australia

  242. Andrzej S. Nartowski Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:34 - Reply

    I support and admire prof. Wojciech Sadurski for his activities for democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms.

  243. Victoria Jennett Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:45 - Reply

    I support Professor Sadurski’s freedom of speech and commend his courage.

  244. Sergio Verdugo Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:46 - Reply

    Sergio Verdugo
    Associate Professor of Law
    Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.

  245. Piotr Mikuli Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:46 - Reply

    Piotr Mikuli, Jagiellonian University

  246. Roberto Miccú Mo 6 Mai 2019 at 23:59 - Reply

    Roberto Miccú, Professor of Public Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  247. Helen Irving Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:05 - Reply

    Helen Irving,
    Professor of Law,
    The University of Sydney Law School

  248. John Oberdiek Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:05 - Reply

    John Oberdiek, Rutgers University

  249. Oana Stefan Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:11 - Reply

    Oana Stefan King’s College London

  250. Madeline Taylor Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:15 - Reply

    Dr Madeline Taylor
    The University of Sydney Law School

  251. Andrew Sepielli Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:15 - Reply

    Andrew Sepielli
    Department of Philosophy
    University of Toronto

  252. Judit Sandor Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:18 - Reply

    I support prof. Wojciech Sadurski.

  253. Euan MacDonald Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:24 - Reply

    Euan MacDonald, University of Edinburgh.

  254. Russell Blackford Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:28 - Reply

    Russell Blackford, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle

  255. Prof Luke Nottage Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:32 - Reply

    I support my colleague’s freedoms of expression and academic inquiry. It is disturbing and ironic that the current government in Poland is clamping down on such freedoms in a way reminiscent of the totalitarian regime of the communist era.

  256. Roger Magnusson Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:34 - Reply

    I support Professor Wojciech Sadurski and the values he stands for.
    Professor Roger Magnusson
    Professor of Health Law & Governance
    University of Sydney Law School

  257. Ben Boer Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:38 - Reply

    I fully support the position taken by our colleague Prof Wojciech Sadurski.

    Emeritus Professor,The University of Sydney Law School

  258. Holly Cullen Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:39 - Reply

    Holly Cullen, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Western Australia

  259. Ed Couzens Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:42 - Reply

    Ed Couzens, Associate Professor of Environmental Law, University of Sydney Law School

  260. Belinda Reeve Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:44 - Reply

    Dr Belinda Reeve, Senior Lecturer
    The University of Sydney Law School

  261. Grant Hooper Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:44 - Reply

    Grant Hooper, The University of Sydney Law School

  262. Krzysztof Nienartowicz Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:49 - Reply

    Krzysztof Nienartowicz, University of Geneva

  263. Agnes Bende-Farkas Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:51 - Reply

    I stand with Professor Sanduski. Agnes Bende-Farkas Research Institute for Linguistics HAS

  264. Kate Owens Di 7 Mai 2019 at 00:53 - Reply

    Dr Kate Owens, The University of Sydney Law School.

  265. Joris Larik Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:04 - Reply

    Joris Larik, Leiden University

  266. Daniel Joyce Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:08 - Reply

    Daniel Joyce, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney

  267. Viktor Olivér Lőrincz Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:09 - Reply

    Viktor Olivér Lőrincz, Junior Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies

  268. Jason Harris Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:18 - Reply

    I support Prof Sadursky

  269. Jason Harris Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:22 - Reply

    Jason Harris
    Professor of Corporate Law
    The University of Sydney

  270. Anne Twomey Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:23 - Reply

    Anne Twomey, University of Sydney

  271. Eric Fripp Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:33 - Reply

    Eric Fripp
    Barrister, Lamb Building, Temple, London EC4Y and Visiting Fellow, Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

  272. Matthew Lister Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:34 - Reply

    Dr. Matthew Lister
    Senior Lecturer, Deakin University School of Law
    Melbourne, Australia

  273. Murray Lee Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:36 - Reply

    Murray Lee, Professor of Criminology, University of Sydney Law School.

  274. Iza Lipska Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:37 - Reply

    In full support

  275. Joseph Campbell QC, The University of Sydney Law School Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:38 - Reply

    The actions against Prof Sadurski are serious, and deplorable.

  276. Jacqueline Mowbray Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:48 - Reply

    Jacqueline Mowbray, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Law School

  277. Farrah Ahmed Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:53 - Reply

    Farrah Ahmed, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School

  278. Shae McCrystal Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:54 - Reply

    Shae McCrystal, Professor of Labour Law, The University of Sydney Law School

  279. Colin King Di 7 Mai 2019 at 01:55 - Reply

    Colin King, University of Sussex

  280. Kim Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:04 - Reply

    Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research), The University of Sydney Law School

  281. Pedro Caminos Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:14 - Reply

    I agree with the content of the open later.
    Pedro A. Caminos
    Facultad de Derecho
    Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Argentina

  282. Professor Gail Mason, Professor of Criminology, The University of Sydney Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:23 - Reply

    Professor Gail Mason, Professor of Criminology, The University of Sydney

  283. Rebecca Ruth Gould Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:29 - Reply

    Rebecca Ruth Gould, University of Birmingham

  284. Rosemary Grey Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:30 - Reply

    Rosemary Grey, University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Sydney Law School

  285. Professor Rosemary Lyster Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:41 - Reply

    Professor Rosemary Lyster, Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, The University of Sydney Law School

  286. Judy Cashmore Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:43 - Reply

    Professor of Socio-legal Research & Policy, The University of Sydney Law School

  287. Thomas Pogge Di 7 Mai 2019 at 02:53 - Reply

    Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University.

  288. Bing Ling Di 7 Mai 2019 at 03:05 - Reply

    Bing Ling, Professor of Chinese Law, The University of Sydney Law School

    • Jahnavi Sindhu Di 7 Mai 2019 at 18:42 - Reply

      Jahnavi Sindhu, Yale Law School(2018)

  289. Nicole Graham Di 7 Mai 2019 at 03:15 - Reply

    Nicole Graham, The University of Sydney

  290. Marco Rizzi Di 7 Mai 2019 at 03:48 - Reply

    Marco Rizzi, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia Law School

  291. Jagielski Di 7 Mai 2019 at 04:37 - Reply

    Dariusz G. Jagielski, citizen of Poland.

  292. Jane McAdam Di 7 Mai 2019 at 04:42 - Reply

    Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor of Law, University of NSW

  293. Associate Professor Dr Salim Farrar Di 7 Mai 2019 at 05:23 - Reply

    I fully support my colleague in his struggles for justice.

  294. Tanya Mitchell Di 7 Mai 2019 at 05:41 - Reply

    Tanya Mitchell
    Senior Lecturer
    University of SYDNEY Law School

  295. Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales / Utrecht University Di 7 Mai 2019 at 05:51 - Reply

    With admiration for his courage and determination.

  296. Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki Di 7 Mai 2019 at 06:01 - Reply

    Jan Klabbers
    University of Helsinki

  297. Jerzy Zajadło Di 7 Mai 2019 at 06:54 - Reply

    Jerzy Zajadło, Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Gdańsk

  298. Blay-Grabarczyk Di 7 Mai 2019 at 06:58 - Reply

    Katarzyna Blay-Grabarczyk, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Univerity of Montpellier

  299. Antony Duff Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:12 - Reply

    Antony Duff, Professor Emeritus, University of Stirling

  300. Pavlos Elefheriadis Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:15 - Reply

    Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor of Public Law, University of Oxford

  301. Jorrit Rijpma Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:25 - Reply

    Jorrit Rijpma, Leiden Law School

  302. Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:30 - Reply

    Martti Koskenniemi,
    Professor of International Law

  303. István Földes Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:38 - Reply

    István Földes, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

    • Ruben de Graaff Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:57 - Reply

      Ruben de Graaff, Leiden Law School

  304. Eva Pils Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:47 - Reply

    Eva Pils, Professor of Law, King’s College London

  305. Nina Lueck Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:53 - Reply

    Nina Lueck
    University College London

  306. Päivi Leino-Sandberg Di 7 Mai 2019 at 07:54 - Reply

    Päivi Leino-Sandberg
    Professor of Transnational European Law
    Deputy Director, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights

    University of Helsinki

  307. Andrzej Rzonca Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:17 - Reply

    Andrzej Rzonca, Warsaw School of Economics

  308. Louise Boon-Kuo Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:21 - Reply

    Louise Boon-Kuo, University of Sydney Law School.

  309. Maria Varaki Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:32 - Reply

    Maria Varaki

    Lecturer in Int’l Law
    King’s College Londin

  310. Kamil Sambor Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:36 - Reply

    I wanna suport Mr. Sadurski. I am retired, Wroclaw University, Poland.

  311. Rowan Nicholson Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:46 - Reply

    Rowan Nicholson, University of Sydney Law School

  312. Dieter Segert Di 7 Mai 2019 at 08:46 - Reply

    I support Prof Sadursky

    Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Dieter Segert, Vienna University, Institute of Political Science

  313. Laura Pineschi Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:14 - Reply

    Laura Pineschi
    Professor of International Law
    University of Parma

  314. Dr. Natascha Solar, LL.M (EHI) Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:15 - Reply

    In support of freedom of opinion and a free judiciary.

  315. Pablo Castillo-Ortiz Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:16 - Reply

    Pablo Castillo-Ortiz
    Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield (UK)

  316. Michael Murez Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:18 - Reply

    Michael Murez, Nantes University

  317. Piet Eeckhout Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:33 - Reply

    Piet Eeckhout
    Dean and Professor of EU law
    Faculty of Laws
    University College London

  318. Juliette Kennedy Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:34 - Reply

    Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki

  319. Adam Manikowski, Professor emeritus Institute of History, Polish Academy of sciences Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:40 - Reply

    I fully support this letter

  320. Paul Russell Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:43 - Reply

    Professor of Philosophy, Lund University and the University of British Columbia.

  321. Hannah Quirk Di 7 Mai 2019 at 09:45 - Reply

    Reader in Criminal Law
    King’s College London

  322. Arthur Dyevre Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:01 - Reply

    Wojciech, you’re among the smartest legal scholars have ever met. You have the courage of your commitment to truth and honesty. I fully support this letter.
    Arthur Dyevre
    Professor and Director of the Centre for Legal Theory and Empirical Jurisprudence
    University of Leuven

  323. Catherine Van de Heyning Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:06 - Reply

    Professor European fundamental rights
    University of Antwerp

  324. Stefan Theil Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:24 - Reply

    Stefan Theil, University of Oxford

  325. Richard Collins Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:29 - Reply

    Richard Collins
    Lecturer in International Law
    University College Dublin

  326. Jonathan Turner Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:31 - Reply

    Jonathan Turner, University of Oxford

  327. William J. Bridge Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:38 - Reply

    William J. Bridge
    Professor Emeritus
    Dedman School of Law
    Southern Methodist University
    Dallas, Texas USA

  328. Abdurrachman Satrio Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:56 - Reply

    Abdurrachman Satrio, Researcher Center for State Policy Studies Padjadjaran University.

  329. Monica Claes Di 7 Mai 2019 at 10:57 - Reply

    Monica Claes, Maastricht University

    • luísa cristina pinto e netto Di 7 Mai 2019 at 22:10 - Reply

      I support
      Luísa Cristin Pinto e Netto
      Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

  330. David Garland Di 7 Mai 2019 at 11:04 - Reply

    David Garland
    Professor of law and Sociology
    NYU

  331. Esra Demir Di 7 Mai 2019 at 11:43 - Reply

    Esra Demir-Gürsel
    Freie Universität Berlin

  332. Marcin Matczak Di 7 Mai 2019 at 11:57 - Reply

    Marcin Matczak, University of Warsaw

  333. Filip Vostal Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:08 - Reply

    Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

  334. Andrew Hurrell Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:18 - Reply

    I support this letter.
    Andrew Hurrell
    Montague Burton Professor of International Relations
    Oxford University

  335. Fabrizio Esposito Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:19 - Reply

    Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University

  336. Marko Milanovic Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:27 - Reply

    Marko Milanovic, Professor of Public International Law, University of Nottingham

  337. ponthoreau Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:37 - Reply

    For Freedom of Speech,

    Marie-Claire Ponthoreau
    Professor of constitutional Law and Comparative Law
    University of Bordeaux (France)

  338. Vesco Paskalev Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:40 - Reply

    Vesco Paskalev, lecturer at the University of Hull and former student of prof. Sadurski’s

  339. Ladislav Vyhnanek Di 7 Mai 2019 at 12:58 - Reply

    Ladislav Vyhnánek, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University

    • Alyssa King Di 7 Mai 2019 at 13:59 - Reply

      Alyssa King, Queen’s University

  340. Alvin Cheung Di 7 Mai 2019 at 13:24 - Reply

    Alvin Y.H. Cheung, New York University

  341. PProf. Ewa Łętowska, Polish Academy of Sciences ( Member), First Polish Ombudsman (1988-1992) Di 7 Mai 2019 at 13:50 - Reply

    I agree

  342. Carlos Bichet Di 7 Mai 2019 at 14:00 - Reply

    Carlos Bichet
    JSD Candidate
    University of Notre Dame

  343. Mathieu Carpentier Di 7 Mai 2019 at 14:12 - Reply

    Mathieu Carpentier, Faculty of Law, Toulouse University

  344. Andrew Johnston Di 7 Mai 2019 at 14:24 - Reply

    Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance, University of Sheffield, UK

  345. Tara Van Ho Di 7 Mai 2019 at 14:40 - Reply

    Tara Van Ho, University of Essex School of Law and Human Rights Centre

  346. Diego Di 7 Mai 2019 at 14:51 - Reply

    Diego Acosta, Reader University of Bristol

  347. Wim Muller Di 7 Mai 2019 at 14:54 - Reply

    Wim Muller, Maastricht University

  348. Christoph Möllers Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:22 - Reply

    Christoph Möllers
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    • David Landau Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:29 - Reply

      David Landau, Florida State University College of Law

  349. Mark A. Graber Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:23 - Reply

    Mark A. Graber
    Regents Professor
    University of Maryland Carey School of Law

  350. Laurence R. Helfer Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:27 - Reply

    Laurence R. Helfer,
    Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law
    Duke University, USA

  351. Pasquale Pasquino Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:27 - Reply

    New York University

  352. David S. Law Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:30 - Reply

    David S. Law
    University of Hong Kong and Washington University in St. Louis

  353. Mario MENDEZ Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:30 - Reply

    MARIO MENDEZ
    QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

  354. Agnieszka Bień-Kacała Di 7 Mai 2019 at 15:32 - Reply

    Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń