
Emilia Barabasz Attorney
Contracts, copyright and related rights, cultural and scientific law, commercialization of scientific research, European funds, human rights
The owner of the Firm. She has been an attorney at law at the Warsaw Bar Association since 2012. In her practice, she focuses on intellectual property (in particular copyright and related rights as well as commercialization of scientific research), cultural and scientific law and legal support for projects financed from European Union funds. She has a particular focus on advising cultural institutions, foundations, authors, artists and other entities operating in the field of culture, arts and science.
A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Warsaw, specializing in European integration, where she graduated with honors.
She is the Chairwoman of the LGBT+ Group of the District Bar Council in Warsaw and a co-founder of the lgbt+prawnicy initiative. She works pro bono to win equal rights for LGBT+ persons in Poland. She focuses on the rule of law in Poland and is a co-author of the report Analysis and assessment of legislative activities of the authorities of the Republic of Poland in the period from the beginning of the work of the Sejm of the 8th term (i.e. 12 November 2015) till the end of 2017 in terms of their compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997.She represented pro bono foreigners in court and administrative proceedings against the Border Guard as part of the action ” Attorneys on the border” (Terespol, 2017). For her “consistent commitment and support of citizens in their activities for the protection of human rights”, she received a distinction from the Ombudsman Prof. Adam Bodnar in 2019. Awarded “Merit for Equality” by the Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law.
She teaches copyright and related rights at the New Theatre Practices Lab at the SWPS University in Warsaw.
She works in Polish and English.