On 23-24.05.2025, the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw hosted the jubilee 10th Polish Law & Economics Conference, organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Polish Association of Law and Economics (PSEAP). The conference was co-organized by members of the Department participating in the authorities of PSEAP - Prof. Jacek Lewkowicz (President), Dr. Anna Lewczuk (Member of the Management Board) and Prof. Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska (Member of the Audit Committee).

CEAPS - Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector functioning in connection with the Department invites to the next meeting of CEAPS Seminar Series featuring Prof. Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg) with a talk on "Can public data protection regimes mitigate users' privacy concerns about AI? Evidence from a survey experiment" (22.05.2025, 17:00, room B002).

We are proud to inform that the book entitled "Nierówności po polsku" (Inequalities the Polish Way) co-authored by Prof. Michał Brzeziński with Jakub Sawulski and Paweł Bukowski was awarded the 1st Prize by Puls Biznesu (a Polish daily newspaper devoted to business and economic issues) in the contest for "Business Book of the Year 2024" (Biznesowa Książka Roku) in the category "scientific book".

We have the pleasure to inform that Prof. Beata Łopaciuk-Gonczaryk received The Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship for a research stay at Carnegie Mellon University in the US.

Prof. Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska has been nominated as the new Head of Department of Political Economy by the Dean of Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw for the term 2025-2029.

CEAPS - Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector functioning in connection with the Department invites to the next meeting of CEAPS Seminar Series featuring Prof. Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana) with a talk on "Political Economy of Judicial Backsliding and Reform: In Search of the Prometheus?" (12.03.2025, 17:00, room A409).

We proudly announce that on 18.02.2025, based on the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland Prof. Michał Brzeziński obtained the title of Professor of Social Sciences in the discipline Economics and Finance.

We would like to invite submissions for the special issue of the journal Ekonomista devoted to “20 Years of Law and Economics in Poland”, whose guest editior is Prof. Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska from Department of Political Economy at WNE UW.

CEAPS - Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector functioning in connection with the Department invites to the next meeting of CEAPS Seminar Series featuring Prof. Artyom Jelnov (Ariel University) with a talk on "Democratic Backsliding in Times of Crisis" (16.01.2025, 17:00, room A409).

CEAPS - Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector functioning in connection with the Department invites to the next meeting of CEAPS Seminar Series featuring Prof. Niclas Berggren (IFN Stockholm, VSE Prague) with a talk on "Growing Up in Uncertain Times: How Economic and Political Volatility Shapes Tolerance?" (10.12.2024, 17:00, room A409).