Prof. Dr. Jakub Urbanik at KHAS Faculty of Law

Jakub Urbanik, born 1975 in Warsaw, studied Law at the University of Warsaw 1994–1998 and continued his education as a doctoral candidate at the same University, completed with a doctoral title in 2002. In 2013 he obtained a post-doctoral degree (habilitation).

Legal historian specialising in legal awareness in Antiquity and legal tradition of marriage and family in the past and modern era, he focuses in particular on juristic papyrology in the broadest sense combined with the elements of social history and the history of mentality (and within this sphere particularly interested in the phenomena of legal pluralism and multi-normativism in the Roman and Byzantine Antiquity).

Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, Head of the Chair Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity. Co-editor of The Journal of Juristic Papyrology and the Series of its Supplements. Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. Studied and taught in Naples, Cologne, San Sebastian, Palermo, and Zürich. A legal activist, part-taker of several strategic litigations focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.

Dr. Urbanik is a Visiting Professor in KHAS Faculty of Law.