Przemysław Tacik - Instytut Studiów Europejskich

Institute

Associate Professor in the Department of European Philosophy

Dr. Przemysław Tacik

Dr. Przemysław Tacik

Office: room 511

Associate Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University and Director of the Nomos Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power. A philosopher, lawyer and sociologist by education, he holds a habilitation in law (2024), PhDs in philosophy (2014) and international law (2016). He has been a visiting scholar at several universities (Columbia University, SUNY at Buffalo, Université Paris-1, Université d’Orléans, Heidelberg Universität, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the University of Salzburg and Lisbon University). He received the First Prize for a habilitation thesis from the Journal "Law and State" (2026), a scholarship of the French government (2018), a scholarship for the best young researchers awarded by the Polish Ministry for Science and Higher Education (2018-2020), and a DAAD scholarship (2020). In his academic work he combines philosophical and legal perspectives, attempting to approach them from an interdisciplinary angle. His main fields of interest are: in philosophy – contemporary philosophy, Jewish philosophy and animal studies; and in law – critical legal studies, international law, human rights law.

Functions:

  • Director of the Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power;
  • Deputy Director of Studies of International Programmes;
  • Dean’s Proxy for Safety and Anti-Discrimination;
  • Disciplinary Spokesperson for Jagiellonian University students and doctoral students;
  • Member of the Faculty Committee for Research Ethics;
  • Member of the Commission for Addressing Undesirable Situations at the JU.

  • P. Tacik, A New Philosophy of Modernity and Sovereignty. Towards Radical Historicization, Bloomsbury: London and New York 2021, s. 232.
  • P. Tacik, Deconstructing Self-Determination of Peoples in International Law. Sovereignty, Exception, Biopolitics, Brill: Leiden and Boston 2023, s. 502.
  • G.-G. Fusco, P. Tacik, Law and the Exception. Towards a New Paradigm, Abingdon: Routledge 2026, s. 190.
  • Cosmin Cercel, Gian-Giacomo Fusco, Przemyslaw Tacik (eds), Legal Form and the End of Law. Pashukanis's Legacy, Abingdon & New York: Routledge 2025, s. 272.
  • P. Tacik, Melancholy of the Law, “Law and Critique” 2021, nr 32 (2), 2021, s. 1-20.
  • P. Tacik, Przystąpienie Unii Europejskiej do Europejskiej Konwencji Praw Człowieka, EuroPrawo, Warszawa 2017, s. 696.
  • P. Tacik, Wolność świateł. Edmond Jabès i żydowska filozofia nowoczesności, Austeria, Kraków 2015, s. 596 (przekład angielski: Freedom of Lights. Edmond Jabès and the Jewish Philosophy of Modernity, transl. P. Poniatowska, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2019, s. 401)
  • P. Tacik, Socjologia Zygmunta Baumana, Scholar, Warszawa 2012, s. 207.
  • P. Tacik, Ernst Bloch as a Non-Simultaneous Jewish Marxist, “Religions” 2018, vol. 9, s. 1-20.
  • P. Tacik, ‘After the Dust Has Settled. How to Construct the New Accession Agreement After Opinion 2/13 of the CJEU’, German Law Journal 2017, vol. 18, nr. 4, s. 919-967.

  • The Rights of Nations to Self-Determination: Critical Re-Appraisal in Times of Populism, Grant NCN (Opus 17), 2020-2023. Project Manager.
  • Przestrzenie detencji, projekt współkoordynowany przez UJ i UAM przy wsparciu finansowym PAN, 2018-2021. Member of research team.
  • EU3D “Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy”, European Commission, Horizon 2020, 2019-2022. Member of research team.
  • OpenSpace – European Open Initiative Platform for Electronic Networking and Sustainable Provision of Adult-Centred Education in Privacy and Personal Data Protection, European Commission, Erasmus+, 2017-2019. JU Manager.
  • Przekład książki Wolność świateł. Edmond Jabès i żydowska filozofia nowoczesności na język angielski, MNiSW Uniwersalia, 2015-2019. Project Manager.