Adam Łopatka

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Adam Łopatka (born November 10, 1928 in Szlachcin near Środa Wielkopolska , Poland ; † June 14, 2003 ) was a Polish lawyer , politician and winner of the United Nations Human Rights Prize in 1988.

Scientific career

In 1951 Łopatka graduated from the Institute of Law and Economics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . At the same point he received his doctorate in 1958. He completed his habilitation in 1962 with the subject of state and legal theory. In 1968 he became an associate professor and in 1973 a full professor. In 1967 he founded the Institute for Political Studies, of which he was director until 1969. Until 1987 he was director of the Institute of Legal Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences .

Łopatka taught and researched at universities in Mexico , France , Yugoslavia , Russia , the USA , Japan and the People's Republic of China . He wrote several books and over 200 scientific articles at home and abroad.

Political career

From 1971 to 1981 he was President of the Society of Polish Lawyers, of which he was a member until his death. In 1976 and 1980 he was elected to the Sejm , the Polish parliament. From May 1982 to mid-1987 he was elected Minister for Faith. He then took over the chairmanship of the Supreme Court of Poland until mid-1990.

United Nations

In 1977 he was a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations . Between 1978 and 1983, Lopatka represented Poland on the UN Human Rights Commission . In 1978 he started drafting the Children's Rights Convention , which was adopted in 1989. In 1988 he received the United Nations Human Rights Award.

Private

Łopatka was married and has two sons and four grandchildren.

Honors

Publications

  • Adam Łopatka: The administrative reform in the VRP ; Polish. Interpress agency 1975
  • Adam Łopatka: The Recent Changes in the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland in Problems of Legality in the State Apparatus of the People's Republic of Poland by Adam Lopatka and Roman Schnur , Duncker & Humblot 1977 ISBN 978-3-428-03937-1
  • Adam Łopatka: Revolution and socialist renewal in Poland in Revolution and human rights by Werner Maihofer and Gerhard Sprenger; Franz Steiner Verlag 1990; ISBN 978-3-515-05612-0
  • Adam Łopatka: The Rights of the Child Are Universal: The Perspective of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in The Ideologies of children's rights by Michael Freeman and Philip Veerman; Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1992; ISBN 978-0-7923-1800-2
  • Adam Łopatka: Appropriate Direction and Guidance in the Exercise by a Child of the Rights to Freedom of Expression, Thought, Conscience and Religion in Monitoring children's rights by Eugeen Verhellen, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1996; ISBN 978-90-411-0161-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ XIX Pan American Child Congress. Instituto Interamericano del Niño, 2004, archived from the original on October 13, 2008 ; accessed on January 6, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Łopatka, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Szlachcin near Środa Wielkopolska , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2003