“Legal Think Tanks and government – capacity building”: project supported by the International Visegrad Fund www.visegradfund.org Project partners: POLAND HUNGARY Legal Think Tanks and Government CZECH REPUBLIC – Capacity Building Country Report. Poland SLOVAKIA UKRAINE Authors Łukasz BOJARSKI Grzegorz WIADEREK MOLDOVA 1 Authors of the study Łukasz BOJARSKI President and co-founder of INPRIS, lawyer. Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation (FUPP). Expert of Polish and international institutions (including European Commission, OSCE, Council of Europe, academia, private foundations including Stefan Batory Foundation, Open Society Institute). Member of the Editorial Board of the „National Judicial Council. Quarterly” (http://www.krs.pl/pl/kwartalnik-krs). Before: Member of the National Council of the Judiciary of Poland, (2010-2015). Member of the Board of Directors of PILnet – The Global Network for Public Interest Law (2008-2016). Employee of the Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights in the years 1998-2010. Member of the Experts Council of the „Citizen and the Law” (Obywatel i Prawo) program of the Polish- American Freedom Foundation (2005-2013), Member of the Committee on the Efficiency of Justice in the Ministry of Justice. Fields of interest: judiciary, legal services, legal profession, legal education, non- discrimination, human rights. Author of the reform proposals on the access to legal aid and the legal profession. Author of numerous publications on the judiciary, access to justice and interactive innovative methods in legal education, see list of main publications. Contact: lukasz.bojarski at inpris.pl Grzegorz WIADEREK Co-founder of INPRIS and member of the Management Board, lawyer. He has authored numerous publications on private and banking law, law related to CSOs, judiciary and issues related to subsidies from the EU. For many years, he worked as the coordinator of the Stefan Batory Foundation’s legal program (Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego 1999-2011), wherein he supervised grant programs and coordinated numerous other projects (such as “Journalist in court”, Citizen Watch of Constitutional Judges Appointment). He was the Chairman of the Experts Council of the „Citizen and the Law” (Obywatel i Prawo) program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation (2005-2013). For several years, he has been taking an active part in consultations at the Ministry of Justice over subsequent legislative proposals relating to legal aid and advice. He also has considerable training and research – as both expert and evaluator - experience. He collaborated, among others, with the Non-governmental Evaluation Agency, PSDB Ltd., Case -advisers Ltd. See list of main publications. Contact: grzegorz.wiaderek at inpris.pl “Legal Think Tanks and Government – Capacity Building”: project supported by the 2 International Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org) Table of content Table of content ...................................................................................................................................... 3 List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................................ 5 Part One. Country questions ................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction – summary ..................................................................................................................... 6 Short country information .................................................................................................................. 8 The map of Think Tanks in the country ............................................................................................... 9 Think Tanks activities – Government interactions ............................................................................ 11 Legislative process ........................................................................................................................ 19 System of justice, judiciary ............................................................................................................ 26 Legal profession ............................................................................................................................ 37 Access to justice ............................................................................................................................ 42 Legal education ............................................................................................................................. 45 Language of the law (quality, communication) ............................................................................. 51 Internationalisation of law ............................................................................................................ 59 Human rights, equality, discrimination ......................................................................................... 62 Information society and the legal system and administration ...................................................... 68 Monitoring and participation in selection and appointment procedures for public positions ..... 71 Other thematic fields .................................................................................................................... 73 Think Tanks and government ........................................................................................................ 74 Think Tanks and Academia, scientific circles ................................................................................. 76 Think Tanks and their limits .......................................................................................................... 79 Think Tanks – identifying problems .............................................................................................. 80 Think Tanks – communications and media ................................................................................... 82 Cooperation of legal Think Tanks ...................................................................................................... 84 Financing of legal Think Tanks activities ........................................................................................... 88 Part Two – Legal Think Tank Cards ........................................................................................................ 95 ALLERHAND INSTITUTE of Advanced Legal Studies ....................................................................... 95 “Legal Think Tanks and Government – Capacity Building”: project supported by the 3 International Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org) CITIZENS NETWORK WATCHDOG POLAND ................................................................................. 101 ePAŃSTWO FOUNDATION .......................................................................................................... 103 CIVIL DEVELOPMENT FORUM (FOR) ........................................................................................... 106 HELSINKI FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................................................ 109 INPRIS – INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND SOCIETY ............................................................................... 111 THE RULE OF LAW INSTITUTE (FUNDACJA INSTYTUT NA RZECZ PAŃSTWA PRAWA) ................. 113 ORDO IURIS INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL CULTURE ............................................................................. 115 ASSOCIATION FOR LEGAL INTERVENTION (STOWARZYSZENIE INTERWENCJI PRAWNEJ) ........... 119 WISE EUROPA – FUNDACJA WARSZAWSKI INSTYTUT STUDIÓW EKONOMICZNYCH I EUROPEJSKICH (WISE EUROPA) .................................................................................................. 121 Part Three – Legal Think Tank ProJects Cards ..................................................................................... 126 Part Five. Bibliography. Further readings on Think Tanks and their products .................................... 138 Part Six – Additional material .............................................................................................................. 146 Programme of cooperation between the Ministry of Justice and the non–governmental organizations ............................................................................................................................... 146 Successful Monitoring of Candidates for Justices of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal ............ 148 Letter of LTTs and CSOs to the Venice Commission .................................................................... 152 THE SITUATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY THE SITUATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS IN POLAND .................................................................................................................................................... 163 INPRIS – short info .............................................................................................................................. 169 “Legal Think Tanks and Government – Capacity Building”: project supported by the 4 International Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org) List of abbreviations CJEU – Court of Justice of the European Union CoE – Council of Europe CSO – Civil Society Organization CT – Constitutional Tribunal (Poland) EC – European Commission ECtHR – European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg EU – European Union FOR – Civil Development Forum (Forum Obywatelskiego Rozwoju) FUPP – Legal Clinics Foundation