Date of appointment: 29 May 2026

She graduated in law from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (“UMK”), earned her doctorate and habilitation in civil law, and in 2015 the title of professor of legal sciences. She completed her judicial training in 1997. In 1995, she began her academic and research work at UMK’s Department of Civil Law and International Business, first as an assistant lecturer, then as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. Since 2007, she has headed the Department of Civil Law of the University of Gdańsk.

She completed 6-months of studies at Utrecht University in 1994, a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship in 1998-1999 and a NATO Advance Science Fellowship in 2000-2001 at the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

She specializes in liability law, insurance law and consumer law, among others. She boasts a significant body of academic and practical work in the field of State Treasury liabilities. She is an experienced expert witness for the State Treasury in international arbitration disputes as well as an expert in international and domestic disputes for large companies. She has served on the Commission for Legal Professional Examinations, has been a member of the Chief Council of Higher Education and a member of the Legal Sciences Committee at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

She has extensive experience in academic and teaching work. She has authored over 230 Polish and foreign publications in the fields of Polish and comparative civil law. She has supervised over a dozen doctoral candidates in law. She is the editor-in-chief of “Wiadomości Ubezpieczeniowe” and a member of the editorial board of “Państwo i Prawo.” Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Vice-President of the Board of Directors), the European Group of Tort Law, the European Law Institute (member of the Scientific Council), the European Center for Tort and Insurance Law and the Association of European Contract Law. She has participated in more than a dozen international projects funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) and the EU Commission, she has also headed or executed research projects under NCN grants and an implementation project entitled Development of Road Innovations (NCBiR and GDDKiA, leader: Gdańsk University of Technology). She is currently a member of the Civil Law Codification Commission and serves on the Scientific Council of the Financial Ombudsman.

From January 2024 until the end of her term in 2026, she served as Chairwoman of the Enea S.A. Supervisory Board.