Members and Associates
Centre's Team
Prof. Konrad Osajda, LL.M.
Director of the Centre for Family Business Law
Professor of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and Head of the Commercial Law Department at this university. Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council of Provosts of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Polish Private Law Codification Commission, full member of the Studies & Analyses Office of the Supreme Court of Poland, Visiting professor at, inter alia, the universities of Ottawa, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Montreal, Turin, Vienna and Kyiv, Honorary Fellow of Asian Institute of International Financial Law (Hong Kong University, China), member of European Law Institute. Scholarship holder of, inter alia, the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Foundation for Polish Science. Principal Investigator in the research project “The Dead Hand. Private foundation as a multi-generational estate planning tool” funded by the National Science Centre (grant no. 2021/41/B/HS5/00857). Editor-in-chief of the series entitled “Private Law Commentaries”.
Dr Anne-Marie Weber, LL.M.
Assistant Professor at the Commercial Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, where she defended her doctoral thesis for which she was awarded by the Chairman of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority in a competition for the best doctoral thesis in the field of financial market. Graduate of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) programme at Berkeley Law School. Scholarship holder of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, the French Government (Campus France), the Polish-German Foundation for Science, Poland's National Academic Exchange Agency and Poland's National Science Center. Visiting Scholar at Berkeley School of Law and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She specialises in capital market law, corporate law and contract law. Her current research interests are devoted to the question of how legal regulation can support the idea of sustainable economic development. In the European Law Institute's project “Enterprise Foundations in Europe”, she serves as a member of the advisory committee.
Krzysztof Grzegorczyk
Administrator of the Centre for Family Business Law
Doctoral student at the Commercial Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, Poland; LL.M. student at the University of Heidelberg; graduate of law (long-cycle MA) and art history (BA and MA) at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. President of the Scientific Association of Collegium Invisibile (term 2018/19). Scholarship holder of, among others, Poland's Minister of Science and Higher Education, Poland's National Science Cntre, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria. Graduate of the School of German Law and the School of Austrian Law conducted at the Jagiellonian University (in cooperation with the universities of Heidelberg, Mainz and Vienna). His academic interests include civil law (especially inheritance law), commercial law, art and culture law, as well as late medieval and early modern art.
Jakub Kuśmierz
Student-assistant at the Family Business Law Centre
Fifth-year law student (long-cycle MA) at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, author of scientific publications, speaker, practitioner of corporate law and M&A law. Participant of research and specialisation programmes. One of the organisers of the international interdisciplinary conference UCL Leaders. He gained his professional experience in Polish and international law firms (Schönherr, SSW, GWW, Deloitte, CMS). He is primarily interested in private law, with a particular focus on corporate law, contract law and succession law. He is currently conducting research on family foundations.