About me

 I was awarded PhD by the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law and Administration based on my thesis Truth and Truth-Makers in Legal Discourse: Law as an Institutional Kind. I work currently at the University of Warsaw, Law and Administration Faculty on a project (no 2020/36/C/HS5/00600) funded by the National Science Center of Poland (Analysis of the concept of a legal person from an ontological and linguistic perspective). I am also a researcher in another OPUS project (no 2022/45/B/HS5/04133): Conceptual change or conceptual manipulation? How to tell apart a natural evolution of legal concepts from their abuse. I am an editor of Studia Iuridica.

I am a member of: (a) the Jagiellonian Center for Law, Laguage and Philosophy, co-founded as a result of the Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network project (funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) that I used to coordinate; (b) Lisbon Legal Theory Group ; (c) Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China

I also teach regularly at the Department of Philosophy and Bioethics (Jagiellonian University Medical College). From time to time I also teach at the Institute of Philosophy and Institute of Psychology (Jagiellonian University).

I used to work at the Jagiellonian University, both Faculty of Law and Administration as well as Faculty of Philosophy. I was a visiting scholar at the Loránd Eötvös University (Visegrad Fund), University at Buffalo (SUNY),  Australian National University (ANU), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg i.B. I was awarded Fulbright Senior Award and plan to spend few months as a visiting scholar at UCLA.


I graduated with master degrees in law, philosophy and psychology. I also studied general linguistics. My main research interests include philosophy of law, philosophy of language, social ontology as well as law&psychology. My professional interests include family law and entertainment law; I sometimes offer my counsel in the area of law and psychology. Outside academia (among different things) I offer legal counsel to an adoption center and manage a tennis school. In my free time I usually enjoy family life but I also like to learn languages (no talent whatsoever but I have some basic understanding of Polish, English, German, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, Danish and Lithuanian).


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Best way to get in touch with me is via e-mail: either p.banas [.at.] uw.edu.pl OR pawel.banas [.at.] uj.edu.pl

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