Ewa Letowska graduated from the Faculty of Law, Warsaw University in 1962. She received her doctoral degree in 1968, habilitated in civil law in 1975, and has been a full professor since 1986. Letowska has held numerous prominent academic and professional positions in Poland and abroad. She was the head of the Legal Studies Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences (1977- 1987), and served as the Commissioner for Citizens’ Rights (1987 to 1992). Since 1999, Letowska has held judicial office—first as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court (1999- 2002), then as a justice of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (2002-2011). She is a full member of Polish Academy of Sciences, a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Académie de Droit Comparé in Paris, a doctor h.c. Gdansk University and Pedagogical Academy, Warsaw, and a member of the Helsinki Committee. Letowska served as an expert of the Standards Application Committee of the International Labour Organization (1993-2003).
Letowska has received many awards for her educational activity in the field of law. She was nominated for the Woman of the Year award in Poland (1993), awarded the Friedrich Ebert Foundation prize (1995), and has been twice awarded the Commander’s Cross and Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Ewa Letowska is the author of over twenty books on civil and constitutional law, two books on opera, and of over 350 papers, articles, and editorials.
