Constitutionalist, professor of legal sciences, served as pro-rector of the University of Silesia. She is vice president of the Polish Constitutional Law Society, associate professor at the University of Silesia, head of the Department of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia. Her scientific interests include Polish and comparative constitutional law, especially systems of governance with consideration of mechanisms of political transformations in modern states; the formation of the foundations of the democratic system (including the construction of civil society) in post-authoritarian states, in Portugal and Spain, and in Poland; and issues of human rights protection.