Adv. Jerzy Kwaśniewski
Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the Ordo Iuris Institute, Chairman of the Foundation Council. Creator of the Institute’s Center for Litigation Intervention. Attorney and managing partner at Parchimowicz & Kwaśniewski Law Firm (founded 2008).
Adv. Jerzy Kwaśniewski
Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, scholarship holder at the University of Copenhagen (international commercial law, comparative constitutional law), completed courses organized by the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, Catholic University of Leuven.
He has many years of experience in civil and criminal proceedings involving the protection of civil rights and freedoms, family rights and children’s rights. In his practice, he advises national and international associations, foundations, cooperatives and business organizations (including the Association of International Road Carriers in Poland, the Union of Polish Artists). Until 2017, he was president of the Polish Wine Council.
He has represented citizens and civil society organizations in many precedent-setting cases before national and international courts and tribunals. He has participated in consultations at the invitation of international bodies such as the Venice Commission and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
His support was used by many emerging social and membership organizations speaking out in the public debate in the area of human rights. In 2016, he was a deputy representative of the “Stop Abortion” Legislative Initiative Committee.
Jerzy Kwasniewski was appointed to the advisory boards of four ministers of justice, including the Council for the Strategy for the Modernization of the Area of Justice in Poland and the Council for the Protection of Autonomy and Family Life.
Member and secretary of the government’s Monitoring Council for the Prevention of Family Violence for the 3rd and 4th terms since 2017. March 2019. Appointed by the Polish Bishops’ Conference to the Council of the Bona Fama Foundation.
Member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (since 2017), the International Bar Association (including the Litigation Commission, Arbitration Commission, War Crimes Commission) and the IBA Human Rights Institute.
Regularly listed as one of the most influential Polish lawyers. Ranked by Politico as one of the “28 most powerful people in Europe in 2021.”
He and his wife Beata are the parents of Simon, Lucia, Danuta, Przemek, Wanda, Emil (✞) and Konrad.
