Wojchieh Kowalski
Wojciech Kowalski, graduated from Jagiellonean University, Faculty of Law, Cracow, Poland,
Assistant, later Assistant professor (1980-1992) and Professor of Law at the University of Silesia, Katowice.
Head of the Department of Intellectual and Cultural Property Laws. Visiting professor, University of Edinburgh (1998-2000), University of Georgia, Athens, USA (2002).
Guest lecturer in London, Minsk (Belarus), Heidelberg, Aberdeen and at Hague Academy of International Law (2001 private law course).
Presented papers at numerous conferences, among other places in Madrid, Paris, Moscow, London, Edinburgh, Warwoick, Manchester, Sofia, Arnhem, Berlin, Tartu, Vilonius, New York, Washington, The hague. The Polish Government's Commissioner for Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad (1992-1994).
Representative of Poland to the Council of Europe,s Cultural Heritage Committee (1992-1994), Strasbourg. Elected Deputy Chairmen of this Committee (1993-1994). One of the founders of the ICOMOS International Committee on Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues, Paris, deputy chairmen (1997-2000).
Ambassador ad personam in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since 1998). Author of several publications on cultural property law in Polish and English. Principal books include: Liquidation of the Effects of Wporld War II in the Area of Culture. Warsaw 1994, Art Treasures and War.
A Study on the Restitution of Looted Cultural Property pursuant to Public International
Law. Leicester, Institute of Art and Law 1998, Restitution of Works of Art pursuant to Private and Public International Law. Hague Academy of International Law. Recueil des cours. Vol. 288 (2001). The Hague, Boston London Martinus Nijhoff 2002.
Teaching and research interests: Intellectual and Cultural Property Laws, Private Law, Public International law.
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