Biography
Karolina Kocemba is a socio-legal scholar working on human rights (particularly women's rights) and legal mobilization. She is a Max Weber Fellow, re: constitution Fellow 2023/2024, and a Visiting Professor at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, University of the Basque Country. Karolina also works at the University of Wrocław as a post-doc and as a researcher at the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory.
There, she defended her PhD thesis, ‘Interactions in spaces of legal education,’ devoted to the spatial influence on interactions in places of legal education (mainly in Poland but compared with the law faculties in the Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Australia).
At the EUI, she examines the right-wing legal mobilization against reproductive rights by analyzing the participation of non-state actors in reproductive rights cases. In particular, she analyzes the type of legal actions, legal strategies, arguments, and right-wing networks.
Karolina co-teaches a course on Global Justice and Legal Mobilization in the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Before, she taught the sociology of law classes for law students (MA) and co-led a three-year seminar series on strategic litigation at the University of Wrocław. Karolina was also a teacher and tutor of the Empirical Legal Research course in the International EDELNet+ PhD Training Programme. During her first year of the Fellowship, Karolina obtained a teaching certificate.