Intercountry adoptions

2023-02-06

On February 01, 2023,a Polish-Swedish seminar was held at the Institute of Justice. The subject of the seminar was legal regulations and practice concerning intercountry adoptions of Polish citizens to Sweden. The Swedish delegation was presided by Professor Anna Singer, the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Uppsala University, also appointed as Inquiry Chair by the Swedish government, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to investigate the issue of intercountry adoptions.

The Swedish delegation, apart from Professor Singer, comprised of other members of the Committee in the person of: Tina Nilsson, Pernilla Krusberg and Anders Tordai. The Polish party was represented by the employees of the Institute of Justice: professor Marcin Wielec, the Director of IWS, professor Paweł Sobczyk, the Deputy Director of IWS, employees of the Family Law Section of IWS: professor Elżbieta Holewińska-Łapińska, Dr. Maciej Domański, Dr. Jerzy Słyk, professor Piotr Mostowik, the Head of the Fundamental Rights Section of IWS, and Dr. Bartłomiej Oręziak, the Coordinator of the Center for Strategic Analysis of IWS.

In addition, the seminar was attended by: professor Piotr Fiedorczyk, the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok and dr hab. Bogusław Lackoroński, the Faculty of Law and Administration of the WarsawUniversity. In the course of the seminar Professor Elżbieta Holewińska-Łapińska presented Polish regulations on intercountry adoption procedures and practice in the light of file research conducted at the Institute of Justice.