Academic Publications
My academic publications cover diverse topics in international law, international human rights law, and migration law, with special focus on disappeared and missing persons, border violence, and memory laws. I have published a monograph, numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters, policy papers, but also co-edited a special issue of a journal and two books.
Below a list of my main publications since 2018. For a full list see here.
2025
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‘ Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon ’ Cambridge University Press (2025) (edited with Milica Kolakokic-Bojovic).
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‘Making pushback facts visible: a review of tools in existing case law and the procedural framework of the European Court of Human Rights’ (2025) International Journal of Human Rights Law (with Jill Alpes and Isabel Kienzle)
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‘ Living up to obligations through the International Red Cross? A critique of states’ attempts to shift obligations when addressing missing persons’ (2025) Leiden Journal of International Law (with Nasia Hadjigeorgiou)
2024
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‘ The Politics of Legal Facts: The Erasure of Pushback Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights’ (2024) Law & Social Inquiry (with Jill Alpes)
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„ The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Poland“ in: Ch. Heyns and F. Viljoen (eds.), The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level. Second Revised Edition , Brill (mit K. Sękowska-Kozłowska, J. Grygiel, Ł. Szoszkiewicz)
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‘ Protesting in defence of human rights in the time of pandemic: Freedom of assembly and COVID-19’ , in Sowa and Whyton (eds), Encountering the Plague. Humanities Takes on the Pandemic , Intellect 2024 (with Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias)
2023
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‘‘ How long does the past endure? “Continuing violations’ and the “very distant past’ before the UN Human Rights Committee ’ (2023) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 41(2)
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‘ Exposing Covert Border Enforcement: Why Failing to Shift the Burden of Proof in Pushback Cases is Wrong’ (2023) European Convention on Human Rights Law Review 4(4)
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‘ Protecting the good name of the nation as a memory law’ (2023) European Constitutional Law Review 19(4)
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‘ Aktualne zagadnienia migracji’ [Current migration challenges] Special Issue in (2023) Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 08 (edited with Marta Górczyńska).
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‘Using and Abusing Memory Laws in Search of “Historical Truth:’ The Case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Act’ [in:] Noam Tirosh, Anna Reading (eds.), The Right to Memory , Berghan Books (2023) (with Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias)
2022
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‘ The Rights of the Families of Missing Persons: Going Beyond International Humanitarian Law ’ (2022) Israel Law Review 55(1)
Winner of Israel Law Review Prize of 2022
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‘Pushbacks in Poland: Grounding the practice in domestic law in 2021’ (2022) Polish Yearbook of International Law 41
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‘Can a state limit processing of asylum applications (evaluation of the provisions of the so-called Pushback Act)’ & ‘The legality and permissibility of push-back policies (forcing people back over a border) and assessment of the attempts to legalize it in Poland’, (2022) in Witold Klaus (ed) Beyond the Law: Legal assessment of the Polish State’s activities in response to the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian Border (Publishing House of ILS PAS) 8-13.
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‘ Sexist Hate Speech and the International Human Rights Law: Towards Legal Recognition of the Phenomenon by the United Nations and the Council of Europe ’ (2022) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue international de Semiotique juridique 35 (with Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias)
2021
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Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons: How International Bodies Address the Needs of Families of Disappeared Persons in Europe , Intersentia (2021)
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Missing Migrants: Lessons from the EU’s response to Ukrainian refugees , Jacques Delors Centre, 16 May 2022
2020
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‘ The Puzzle of Punitive Memory Laws: New Insights into the Origins and Scope of Punitive Memory Laws ’ (2020) East European Politics & Societies and Cultures 35(4) (with Klaus Bachmann, Igor Lyubashenko, Christian Garuka, Vjeran Pavlaković)
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‘ Historical Memory in Post-Communist Europe and the Rule of Law: An Introduction ’ (2020) European Papers 5(1) (with León Castellanos-Jankiewicz)
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‘ Penalizing statements about the past in Turkey ’ [in:] Patrycja Grzebyk (ed.), Responsibility for negation of international crimes. Memory Law – International Crimes – Denial , The Justice Institute (2020)
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‘ Memory laws in Turkey: protecting the memory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ’ [in:] Klaus Bachmann, Christian Garuka (eds.), Criminalizing History. Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine , Peter Lang (2020)
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Historical Memory in Post-communist Europe and the Rule of Law , Special Section in (2020) European Papers 5(1) (edited with León Castallanos-Jankiewicz)
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The Relevance of the ICPPED for Disappeared Migrants and Refugees , German Institute for Human Rights, October 2020
2019
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‘ Law-Secured Narratives of the Past in Poland in Light of International Human Rights Law Standards ’ (2019) Polish Yearbook of International Law (with Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias and Anna Wójcik)
2018
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‘ Advances and progress in the obligation to return the remains of missing and forcibly disappeared persons ’ (2018) International Review of the Red Cross 99
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‘“ Right to truth” and Memory Laws: General Rules and Practical Implications ’ (2018) Polish Political Science Yearbook 47 (with Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias)
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‘Families of disappeared persons in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ (2018) European Human Rights Law Review 5
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‘Why Enforced Disappearances are Perpetrated against Groups as State Policy: Overlaps and Interconnections between Disappearances and Genocide’ (2018) Catolica Law Review 3 (with Jeremy Sarkin)