Date of appointment: 30 January 2024

She graduated in law from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 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 the Department of Civil Law and International Business of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, first as an assistant lecturer, then as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor. Since 1 April 2007, she has worked at the Department of Civil Law of the University of Gdańsk, which she has been heading since 2012. 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, consumer law and State Treasury liability law, and has acquired significant academic and practical achievements. He has extensive experience as an expert witness for the State Treasury in international arbitration disputes and as an expert witness in international and national disputes. Having been involved in expert cooperation with the Polish Insurance Association, in 2012 she was elected to the Best Practice Council of the Polish Insurance Association. 

She was a member of the former Civil Law Codification Commission and earlier of various teams within the Civil Law Codification Commission (2007-2010). She was a member of the State Committees for Legal Professional Examinations, the General Council of Higher Education (2010-2013) and the Legal Sciences Committee at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2015-2019).

Editor-in-chief of “Wiadomości Ubezpieczeniowe” [Insurance News], a member of the editorial board of “Państwo i Prawo” [State and Law]. 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 extensive experience in academic and teaching work. She has authored over 200 Polish and foreign publications in the fields of Polish and comparative civil law, including 7 Polish and foreign monographs. She has supervised young scholars (12 doctorates under her supervision, reviews in more than a dozen postdoctoral dissertations, more than 20 doctoral dissertations, reviews in procedures for granting the title of professor).

From 2001 to 2023, she participated in more than a dozen international projects funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) and the EU Commission, resulting in various foreign publications, she 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).