dr hab. Witold Klaus

Witold Klaus – PhD in law, a lawyer and criminologist; professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and in the Centre of Migration Studies at Warsaw University; President of the Board of the Association for Legal Intervention; Secretary of the Board of the Polish Society of Criminology. In 2009 awarded Social Nobel Prize by Ashoka Foundation – Innovators for the Public; In 2009 won second prize for the best legal Ph.D. thesis awarded by one of the leading Polish legal journal called “State and Law” [“Państwo i Prawo”]. Coordinator or various projects, including evaluation, monitoring and research projects, author of number of publications on human rights, refugee and immigrant rights, criminology, victimology, criminal policy, juvenile and restorative justice.

Selected publications

Jose Brandariz, Witold Klaus, Agnieszka Martynowicz, Forced Mobility of EU Citizens
Witold Klaus, Justyna Włodarczyk-Madejska, Dominik Wzorek, In the Pursuit of Justice: (Ab)Use of the European Arrest Warrant in the Polish Criminal Justice System
Maciej Duszczyk, Marta Jaroszewicz, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Witold Klaus, Agnieszka Kosowicz, Without a coherent, modern migration policy we will be weaker as a community
Witold Klaus, Monika Szulecka, Extending the net: from securitisation to civicisation of migration control
Monika Szulecka, Witold Klaus, Katarzyna Strąk, Poza programem czy zgodnie z programem? Refleksje po pięciu latach obowiązywania „Europejskiego programu w zakresie migracji
Monika Szulecka, Witold Klaus, Who Assists Irregular Migrants in Poland and at What Cost? A Court Files’ Analysis of Convictions of Facilitating Unauthorised Stay of Migrants
Witold Klaus, Monika Szulecka, The judiciary power of discretion in sanctioning the facilitation of unauthorised stay in Poland
Maciej Duszczyk, Marcin Gońda, Witold Klaus, Magdalena Lesińska, Marta Pachocka, Karolina Podgórska, Dominika Pszczółkowska, Dominik Wach, Relations between immigration and integration policies
Marcin Gońda, Witold Klaus, Factors Determining Poland’s Immigration and Integration Policies: the Perspective of Researchers and Practitioners
Witold Klaus, Maciej Duszczyk, Dominika Pszczółkowska, Which factors influence states’ migration policies?
Witold Klaus, Marta Pachocka, Examining the Global North Migration Policies: A “Push Out – Push Back” Approach to Forced Migration
Witold Klaus, Monika Szulecka, Migracje nieudokumentowane
Witold Klaus, Migracje uchodźcze

Research projects

IMINTEG – in search for models of relations between immigration and integration policies (duration: 2015 - 2019)

Udostępnianie

Flaga Ukrainy

Research areas

Migration policy

latest events

Influences of origin and destination on migrant fertility

Featuring talk by Associate Professor Eleonora Mussino (Stockholm University) Source: youtube Date: May 22, 2023 Eleonora Mussino is Associate Professor (Docent) at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA). Her studies have focused mainly on international migration, one of the most important and contentious issues in contemporary European societies. She contributes to the understanding […]more

CMR UW Migration Seminars: New Advances in Theory and Research on Migration: Scanning migration horizons

Please join us for a webinar on June 5th, with Professor Jakub Bijak (University of Southampton) “Scanning migration horizons”more