BIO

A lawyer committed to defending the rule of law, democracy and human rights. In 2024, he was elected to the European Parliament from the Civic Coalition list in the Greater Poland district and joined the European People’s Party (EPP) group. He sits on the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Delegation for Relations with the United States (D-US), and is a substitute member of the Special Committee on the European Shield of Democracy (EUDS) and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), where he serves as deputy coordinator.

From 2015 to 2023, he actively participated in efforts to defend the rule of law in Poland. He co-founded the “Free Courts” initiative and was one of the initiators of the KOS Committee for the Defense of Justice, which provided legal assistance to repressed judges and prosecutors. He has handled dozens of cases before national courts and European tribunals (CJEU and ECtHR), representing, among others, judges of the Supreme Court. In the A.K. case before the CJEU, he contributed to the first ruling on the neo-KRS and the Disciplinary Chamber. He is a co-founder of DemoCrisis, an international organization working to protect the rule of law in countries threatened by authoritarianism, and an active participant in the work of the inter-ministerial team for the restoration of the rule of law in Poland.

He has received numerous awards for his work, including the T. Toranska Award (2018), Radio TOK FM’s A. Laszuk Award (2019), the European Parliament Citizenship Award (2021), the Rule of Law Award from the Union Internationale des Avocats (2022) and the Andrzej Wajda Award for Social Action (2024). He is also a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C., and was awarded the Distinguished Advocacy Award (2021).