An associate professor at the Chair of European Law at the University of Lodz in Poland with almost twenty years’ interest in the European Law matters underpinned by a solid educational background. She graduated from the Law Department of the Lodz University. Afterwards she obtained a diploma in postgraduate European studies in Poland and studied at a European school, College of Europe in Brugge, getting a diploma of the Master of Arts in European Studies (Central and Eastern European Programme). Her doctoral thesis was one of the first Ph.D.s on the European Law conferred at the Lodz University. In 1997 she completed a traineeship programme at the Directorate of Legal Affairs at the Council of Europe.
As an academic, she gives lectures on European Law, especially on European Economic Law and European Labour Law for students and participants of the postgraduate studies. She also has a practical experience in substantial support, participation and organisation of seminars, conferences and training sessions for Polish judges, interpreters and officials of the public administration.
Until February 2005 she was leading a three-year project aimed at assisting Ukraine in its transition to the legal environment of the European Union and at providing greater understanding of the European law to the Ukrainian academics, civil servants and the legal professionals.
Since July 2006 until July 2009, Dr. Jolanta Taczyńska was leading the Ukrainian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre (UEPLAC) – Phase IV that activity was focused on the support to Ukraine in the process of the European integration and legal approximation and actually she holds the above position, leading the Ukrainian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre (UEPLAC) – Phase V that has recently commenced its activity. She is a member of the Expert Scientific Council under the Committee for European Integration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, member of the Civil Society Expert Council under the Ukrainian Part of the Committee on Co-operation between Ukraine and the European Union, and member of the Co-ordination Council for implementation of the State Targeted Programme of Training, Retraining and Upgrading Qualifications of Specialists in the European Integration matters for 2008-20011, under the Main Department of Civil Service of Ukraine.
Dr. Jolanta Taczyńska is fluent in English, Ukrainian and Russian.