Anna Juzaszek
Anna Juzaszek is a researcher in the Sonata project “Judging Islam: Analysis of European Court Cases Involving Islam” (2023/51/D/HS5/00077), carried out at the Digital Justice Center. She is also the principal investigator in the Preludium project “The Prohibition of Entering into Religious-Only Marriages from the Perspective of Human Rights in Europe” (2020/37/N/HS5/04198), conducted at Jagiellonian University, where she is a PhD candidate in the Doctoral School of the Social Sciences.
In her socio-legal dissertation, she employs qualitative content analysis to examine judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the right to marry (Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights). Her supervisor is Professor Mateusz Stępień. Anna holds a BA in Cultural Studies, an MA in Sociology, and an MA in Law. She has also completed her attorney apprenticeship and passed the bar exam to become an advocate, but she decided to commit to academia.
Anna has co-authored the book Islam in a Polish Court of Law with Ewa Górska and co-edited Relationships, Rights, and Legal Pluralism: The Inadequacy of Marriage Laws in Europe with Mateusz Stępień, published by Routledge. She coordinated the project “Marriage, Pluralism, and Human Rights in Europe,” funded by the Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University, and contributed to the CERV project “Empathy: Let’s Empower, Participate, and Teach Each Other to Hype Empathy. Challenging Discourse about Islam and Muslims in Poland” (101049389). Additionally, she worked on the Opus project “Power Distance in the Courtroom: Theoretical and Empirical Study” (2015/19/B/HS5/00454).
She has presented her research at many international and national conferences focused on socio-legal and empirical-legal studies, such as the Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies Conference, and the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Her academic interests include the legal aspects of relationships, the right to marry, religious–only marriages, human rights and empirical research on judicial opinions.
Anna lives with a cooking philosopher, an early-morning enthusiast baby boy and a very fluffy cat. Apart from being an academic, she is a co-owner of the r.oddity brand, a lindy hop and balboa dancer, traveller, amateur photographer and sauna addict.
