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SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
The Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Szczecin invites students, researchers, and professionals to participate in the international Summer School titled “Contemporary Problems of Migration Law – International and State Perspective”, which will be held online via MS Teams from September 16 to 18, 2025.
This Summer School offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of current legal challenges related to migration—both at the international and domestic levels. Participants will explore how legal systems respond to contemporary migration phenomena and examine the role of states, international organizations, and institutions in shaping migration policies.
Who should attend?
This program is addressed to:
– students and researchers in law, international relations, migration studies, and political science,
– legal practitioners, policymakers, and professionals working with migration law and human rights,
– anyone interested in how states and international bodies respond to contemporary migration challenges.
Why participate?
– gain in-depth knowledge of migration law from both domestic and international perspectives,
– take part in interactive sessions and discussions with legal scholars and practitioners,
– benefit from international insights presented by experts from leading European institutions,
– receive a certificate of participation to enhance your academic and professional credentials.
Agenda Summer School 2025 (click HERE)
Registration: https://tiny.pl/wt758xd5
In cooperation with Universitas Studiorum Hercegoviniensis
Summer School. “Contemporary Problems of Migration Law – International and State Perspective”
Indrė Isokaitė-Valužė – Associate Professor, Doctor of Social Sciences (Law), teaching and researching international law, international law of the sea, human rights, treaty law, Advisor to the Dean for International Development at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University, Head of the Ukrainian Law Centre of the Law Faculty of Vilnius University, Deputy Chairperson of the Vilnius University Senate Author of a textbook, collective monograph and articles, editor (BIO – info)
Konstancja Szkudlarek – Co-Founder & COO at MigraMate. Konstancja is the Co-Founder & COO of MigraMate, with over 8 years of hands-on experience in Polish and EU immigration law. She began her journey as a student actively involved in integration projects for foreigners and later worked with well-known NGOs in Lublin, providing legal support to migrants across Poland. She holds degrees in Law and European Studies from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). Today, she divides her professional time between MigraMate, where she focuses on Polish immigration procedures, and Greenberg Traurig, where she specializes in business migration to the United States. Her work is grounded in both legal expertise and a strong commitment to human-centered support.
Valerian Karchava – Founder & CEO of MigraMate. Valerian is the Founder & CEO of MigraMate, bringing over 8 years of hands-on experience in Polish and EU immigration law. Through his firm, he has guided more than 800 individuals worldwide through immigration, legalization, and citizenship processes. He holds a Master’s degree in EU Law and combines legal expertise with personal migration experience. For over three years, he has served as a human rights monitor at national and EU levels, collaborating with UNHCR, IOM, IRC, and FRONTEX to advocate for fair and dignified treatment of migrants.
Mina Čogurić – is an associate at JPM & Partners Montenegro, where she is pursuing her professional career to become a lawyer. Her areas of specialization include corporate law, dispute resolution, intellectual property law, migration law, and construction law. She earned her LLB degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Donja Gorica, in 2023, and is currently pursuing her LLM studies in Business Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro. During her LLM studies, alongside her colleagues, she represented the faculty in 31st Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and in 2024/2025 academic year she had the opportunity to participate as a coach of this year’s team.
During the 2022/2023 academic year, she was awarded a scholarship by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, German political foundation that promotes democracy, the rule of law, and political education worldwide. This experience enabled her to participate in various training and seminars focused on political and legal topics, as well as principles of democratic societies. In the summer semester of the 2024/2025 academic year, she spent a semester abroad as an Erasmus+ exchange student at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Szczecin, where she further enriched her academic and international experience.
Mateusz Wąsik – attorney-at-law, tax advisor, member of the Warsaw Bar Association and the Mazovian Branch of the National Chamber of Tax Advisors. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw (2012) and completed doctoral studies at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2021). He has 11 years of experience in tax advisory, gained in Poland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
In 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation (Consequences of the Lack of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in the Polish Legal System), earning a PhD in social sciences in the discipline of legal studies. In his practice, he specializes in providing tax advisory services related to personal income taxation (personal income tax, inheritance and donation tax, civil law transactions tax), with particular focus on cross-border income taxation. For over three years, he collaborated with Lambda Warsaw, offering pro bono legal and tax advice to the organization’s clients. He is fluent in English and Spanish. He is also the author and co-author of publications on the legal protection of LGBT individuals in Poland.
Kelaniyage Shihan Dilruk Fernando – is an experienced business professional with thirteen years of experience in banking, finance, and insurance. He has six years of experience in corporate management. He has been teaching at the West Pomeranian Business School in Szczecin, Poland, since 2018. His research interest focuses on sustainable management, and he is an expert in quantitative research design and analysis. Additionally, he is a member of the Winnet Centre of Excellence® and a research team member at the UNESCO Chair for Social Sustainability at the University of Szczecin, Poland. He earned a Diploma in Public Management and a Bachelor of Science in Management (Public) General External Degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management and a Master’s Degree in Business Management from the University of Colombo. Furthermore, he has obtained a Professional Qualification in Human Resource Management from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management in Sri Lanka. He counts the number of international project experiences as a project member that are funded by the Swedish Institute, the International Visegrad Fund, and the European Commission.
Joanna Markiewicz-Stanny – is a doctor of law, assistant professor at the Chair of Theory, Philosophy and History of Law in the Institute of Law Studies of the University of Zielona Góra. Author of several dozen scientific works in the field of international human rights law, international labour law and migration law, published in Poland and abroad. She conducted research at the invitation of the Universities of Uppsala, Perugia and Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University in Turku. Cooperating researcher of Migration Law Research Centre in the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the editorial boards of “Dyskurs Prawniczy i Administracyjny”, “Marine Policy”, international advisory boards of the journals: “Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta”, “Kenyatta University School of law Journal on Childrens Rights”.
Prabhpreet Singh – Dr, Phd, LLM, Assistant Professor School of Law Mahindra University, researcher in comparative law, author of many scientific publications in the area of comparison if Indian law and European law, Coordinating Committee member of Interest Group on peace and security, European Society of International Law, guest lecture at numerous European universities.
Tamta Gventsadze – is a PhD candidate in EU Law at the University of Tusia, with an extensive knowledge in migration law, particularly the EU’s New Pact. Her current research explores anticipatory governance at the European level, looking at how policies can better prepare for future challenges. With a preliminary thesis title: “Anticipatory Governance in the European Union Multilevel System: Policy-making, Institution-building and Accountability”.
In October 2024, she acquired a Master’s degree in Security and Human Rights programme at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy, graduating with a 110/110 cum laude. During her studies, she was actively involved in academic and extracurricular initiatives and completed an Erasmus traineeship at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Belgium. Prior, she earned her Bachelor’s degree with honours from Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her professional background covers legal writing, journalism, and public diplomacy, including work with the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia.
Marilù Porchia – is a Research Fellow at the University of Tuscia, where she is a member of the CoSME Project (Community Sponsorship for Migrants and Refugees in Europe), and serves as a Contract Professor of International Law at the DEIM Department. She holds a Ph.D. in International and European Law from the University of Ferrara, with a dissertation titled “The Role of Torture Prevention Mechanisms in the Administrative Detention of Third-Country Nationals.” As part of her doctoral research, she was hosted by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Immigration and Human Rights at the Southern Borders of Europe at the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain.
She was admitted to the bar in 2018, and she collaborates as Senior External Expert with the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). She graduated in Law from the University of Bologna (cum laude), and during graduation she studied at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil and at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain. Her research focuses on asylum law, migrant detention, torture prevention mechanisms, access to justice, and human rights.
Mia Bakal – is a researcher and practitioner focused on migration law, gender-based violence, and democratic resilience in post-conflict societies. She holds an M.A. in German and European Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she was supported by a Rotary International Global Grant. Her work examines EU migration governance, anti-trafficking frameworks, and the gendered impacts of legal regimes on marginalized communities, with experience across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Mia has served as a Legal Trainee working on wartime sexual violence cases, collaborated with civil-society organizations on protection and access to justice, and currently supports trans-Atlantic academic partnerships as a Strategic Collaboration Coordinator and Liaison for the Maryland-Bosnian and Herzegovinian Exchange Council at the Institute for Development Impact (I4DI). She has presented on gender, migration, and rule-of-law topics to academic and policy audiences and is committed to evidence-based, victim-centered practice.
Dirk Vanheule – holds law degrees of the University of Ghent (Lic. iur.), Toronto (LL.M.) and Antwerp (Dr. iur.). He is full professor of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp, where he previously served as dean and currently directs the Law and Government Research Group. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law and migration and asylum law. Within the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) and the MIGLOBA Network on Migration and Global Mobility he has been engaged in multidisciplinary research on migration, on which he has published nationally and internationally. He is also advocate and has appeared before i.a. the Belgian Constitutional Court and European Court of Human Rights.
Amra Mujanović – is legal scholar and practitioner with a Master of Laws and Bar Exam, former Senior Teaching Assistant at the University “VITEZ.” Her expertise spans EU law, digital transformation, and the intersection of AI, privacy rights, and intellectual property.
Anna Kosińska – graduate of an art history programme at the Faculty of Humanities of the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin (KUL) and doktor habilitowany (post-doctoral degree) of law and professor of KUL and of the University of Szczecin. Co-creator of the MIGRA-TEAM research team at the Rule of Law Institute.
Coordinator of the Foreigners’ Section of the Legal Clinic at the University of Szczecin and of numerous projects dedicated to helping and integrating migrants (i.a. Support for Voluntary Returns in Lublin Region I and II co-financed from the funds of the European Return Fund). Author of monographs and publications on migration and refugee law and coordinator of NCN projects, now: “Ombudsman jako gwarant ochrony praw podstawowych migrantów” [The Ombudsman as a guarantor of protection of fundamental rights of migrants”].
Ewa Milczarek – graduate of the University of Szczecin, she obtained a doctorate in social sciences in the discipline of law. Since 2016, he has been an employee of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Szczecin, currently as an assistant professor. She specializes in international and constitutional law. Her research area includes the protection of human rights in the context of socio-economic changes. Author of many scientific publications. Active participant in international research projects, influencing the development of legal standards.
SUMMER SCHOOL 2022
The expert team on migration of the University of Szczecin (Poland) and the VITEZ University (Bosnia and Herzegovina) would like to invite everyone to our Summer School “Migration and Human Rights Law”, which will be held on 20-23 June 2022.
The course is intended for law students as well as practitioners and professionals interested in advancing their knowledge on migration law.
The School will be organized on-line via MS Teams. There is no fee, participants will be given certificates issued by the Faculty of Law of the University of Szczecin and the Faculty of Law of the VITEZ University.
Summer School Teachers
AGATA SZWED
Assistant at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Szczecin, Research Team on International Law and European Union Law. Organizer of numerous scientific conferences.
Completed scientific internships and library queries in Poland and abroad (Trinity College Dublin, Vilniaus Universitetas, Catholic University of Lublin). Participant of numerous international training projects (Erasmus+ training course, summer schools in Berlin and Genshagen). Certificate “Chance To Update, Erasmus+ Course for youth-workers” (practical training course dedicated to the major knowledge, skills and attitude of Youth Trainers, Youth Leaders, Business-Trainers and Facilitators working in the field of non-formal learning and Business- Education). Completed “Professional Coach” course with international certification. Member of the Polish Branch of the International Law Association. Member of the Amicus Facultatis Iuris Stetinensis Association. Member of the Team for contact with secondary schools. Experience in conducting classes on European issues and human rights in Polish and English for children and youth at every level of education. Cooperation with EUROPE DIRECT Szczecin and Youth Secretariat of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
BARTOSZ PACHOLSKI
Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Szczecin in the field of public international law. His academic interests include in particular the law of treaties, freedom to provide services within the European Union and the universal and European system of human rights protection. Additionally, he is involved in promoting Polish- German cooperation. Within the scope of his didactic activity he conducts classes in Public International Law, Protection of Human Rights and classes in English for students arriving within the Erasmus+ programme (Public International Law, Human Rights Law, International Organizations, History of Szczecin in Public International Law Perspective). From February 2020 a supporting member of the Labour Mobility Initiative that brings together the employers, scholars, workers and public administration and creates the only Polish and European forum for exchange of knowledge on the posting of workers within the freedom to provide services. Member of organising committees of national scientific conferences co- organised by the Faculty of Law and Administration of University of Szczecin. Participant of the programme “Exchange of academic teachers within the framework of cooperation between the University of Szczecin and the University of Greifswald, Germany” and a research internship together with a library search at Vilnius University
ANNA MAGDALENA KOSIŃSKA
Graduate of an art history programme at the Faculty of Humanities of the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin (KUL) and doktor habilitowany (post-doctoral degree) of law and professor of KUL and of the University of Szczecin.
Co-creator of the MIGRA-TEAM research team at the Rule of Law Institute; since 2015 head of the Research Center for European Migration Law and Policy at KUL which publishes the “Prawo i polityka migracyjna” [Migration Law and Policy] series. Coordinator of the Foreigners’ Section of the Legal Clinic at the University of Szczecin and of numerous projects dedicated to helping and integrating migrants (i.a. Support for Voluntary Returns in Lublin Region I and II co-financed from the funds of the European Return Fund). Author of monographs and publications on migration and refugee law and coordinator of NCN projects, now: “Ombudsman jako gwarant ochrony praw podstawowych migrantów” [The Ombudsman as a guarantor of protection of fundamental rights of migrants”]
SAMIR RIZVO
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University “Dzemal Bijedic” of Mostar. He is the author of the book „Migrant Law” and several articles related to migrations, human rights, trafficking of human beings, etc. He has attended numerous scientific and professional events (conferences, workshops, roundtables).
For the last 20 years, Samir serves as Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been involved in developing key strategies at the state level, and currently coordinates a national referral mechanism in the anti-human trafficking arena. For excellence in his professional job, Samir has been awarded a Golden badge from the Republic of Austria.
SRDJAN VUJOVIC
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University „Vitez”. As a criminologist, he has a special academic and research focus on organized crime, and transnational criminology (including human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, and abuse, etc.). In the last 3 years, actively involved in researching crimes against the migrant population in the Balkans.
Srdjan is a member of the European Society of Criminology and the American Society of Criminology. He writes for several top criminological journals and publishers but also serves as a reviewer.
By working for UN Agencies (UNDP and UNICEF), the Council of Europe, and International organizations (e.g. World Vision International and Save the Children), he was working together with professionals in the fight against crime. His passion is making a sustainable bridge between professionals and scientists, with the aim to maximize impact on positive social change.
IVANA KOZINA
As a MA in Psychology Ivana Kozina worked for UN Migration Agency for more than 7 years. As a leader and coordinator, she has been involved in the key projects focusing on the migrant population in Bosnia and Herzegovina but also delivered her duties throughout the Balkans region as well as for the UN Migration Agency Netherlands.
She is a certified psychotherapist. As a member of different psychological associations, she actively participates in scientific conferences and publishes in relevant journals.
WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL (Manager of a Migrant camp)
Ensuring protection and access to basic social services for refugees and migrants, World Vision International is the leading organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina when it comes to responding to the migrant crises. World Vision takes care of the key Temporary Residence Centers (TRC) in the country together with main national and international stakeholders. With its extensive international experience and well-developed knowledge system, this organization has the potential to enhance current and future responses to migration.