International Family Law 370-PS5-4ERAEW
Konwersatorium (KON) Rok akademicki 2025/26

1. M. Antokolskaia, Harmonisation of Family Law in Europe: A Historical Perspective. A Tale of Two Millennia, Antwerpen-Oxford 2006.

2. European Family Law, ed. J. Scherpe, vol. 1-4.

3. Internet pages: ECHR, ECJ, CEFL, FL-EUR.

4. P. Fiedorczyk Polish Family Law and Family Life Before the European Court of Human Rights, „Pravni život” 2013, no. 12.

5. P. Fiedorczyk, Attempts at Redefining the Family in Contemporary Polish Law, „International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family”

2012, vol. 3, s. 357-371.

KA7_WG3 - student has an in-depth knowledge of the principles and institutions of family law - verification method paper or oral presentation;

KA7_WK3 - student knows and understands the terminology in the field of family law - verification method paper or oral presentation;

KA7_UW1 - student is able to explain and interprete the meaning of legal norms and the relations between these norms in the field of family law - verification method paper or oral presentation;

KA7_UO1 - student is able to operate freely, is self-efficent in solving problems in the field of European family law and has widened skills in solving complicated family law issues - verification method paper or oral presentation;

KA7_KK2 - student can be self-efficient and critical in gaining knowledge and skills about family law in Europe in interdisciplinary context - verification method paper or oral presentation;

At the end each student will have to present a paper or oral presentation on the issues selected by him/her.

The students must be present during classes.

Subject to the applicable regulations, it shall be permissible to conduct a course credit in a remote format.

"The use of AI systems by a student in the course of preparing a presentation is permissible only within the scope and under the rules set out in Ordinance No. 31 of the Rector of the University of Białystok of April 11, 2025, concerning the use of artificial intelligence systems in the educational process at the University of Białystok. The use of AI does not release the student from responsibility for the accuracy of the information and data used in the work.

Classes of International Family Law are covered by several groups of topics:

1/ Students learn about different systems of family law in the European states.

2/ We discuss the topic: EU and family law.

3/ Does European family law exist?

4/ UN system of the protection of child.

5/Surrogate motherhood across the world.

6/ The inflluence of the ECJ on family law in the EU countries.

7/ Council of Europe and its conventions on family law issues.

8/ ECHR and its judgments.

9/ The role of jurisprudence in shaping European family law: Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) and new initiative: FLEUR.

Classes in English. Each student will be presenting his/her studies on discussed topic.

Each student will have to present his/her own country's family law system, the European regulations,the judgments and the efforts of the

jurisprudence.