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The Ordo Iuris Institute is an independent research and litigation center that shapes the social debate as a defender of life, family, freedom, and Poland’s Christian heritage. By providing legal professionalism, scholarly activities, education, and precedent-setting litigation intervention, we strengthen both national and international guarantees of fundamental rights and freedoms.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Justice Minister Adam Bodnar presented on September 6 the assumptions for a draft law on the status of judges who were appointed or promoted to higher positions after 2018.

Polish journalist and essayist Paweł Lisicki, editor-in-chief of the weekly Do Rzeczy, describes the current disturbing evolution of Western liberalism and explains the reasons why classical liberalism, based on individual freedom and limited state interference in the personal lives of citizens, is no longer working.

· A meeting of representatives of the Polish legal community took place in the Collegium Intermarium’s auditorium, where the participants adopted a declaration of agreement on June 15.

· Its signatories are opposed to the current authorities’ disregard for the constitutional principles of the Republic of Poland through, among other things, questioning the independence of the courts and the independence of judges, as well as by taking over the prosecutors’ offices and the public media.