Marcin Romanowski, PhD, LL.M.

Marcin Romanowski is a Polish lawyer, academic, and politician. A Doctor of Law and graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Regensburg (LL.M.), he has lectured at leading institutions in Poland and abroad, including The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He served as Director of the Institute of Justice in Warsaw (2016–2019), Chairman of the Council of the National School of Public Administration named after President Lech Kaczyński (2016–2021), and Deputy Minister of Justice (2019–2023), where he oversaw digitalization, the implementation of modern technologies and cybersecurity, victim support, family law, mediation, and international cooperation. He established the Cybersecurity Center in Zamość and the Academy of Justice.

Since 2023, he has been a Member of the Polish Parliament. In December 2024, following political persecution in Poland and an unlawful detention, he became the first Polish politician since 1989 to be granted political asylum in another EU Member State—Hungary. In April 2025, he assumed leadership of the Hungarian-Polish Institute of Freedom, focusing on sovereignty, the rule of law, and Central European cooperation.

Romanowski is the author of landmark ideology-free anti-domestic violence legislation (2020, 2023) as well as the child protection act Lex Kamilek (2023), Poland’s first systemic framework against child sexual abuse.

He has published widely in the fields of legal theory, natural law, transitional justice, and international law, and is co-author of key monographs such as On Hard Cases in the Philosophy of Law and Reprivatization: Problems of Theory and Practice. He is also the author of numerous reports on systemic violations of the rule of law in Poland after 2023, published by The Institute of World Politics and the Hungarian-Polish Institute of Freedom. He remains an active voice in national and international media debates on the rule of law, freedom, and Central Europe’s role in the transatlantic community.