Eliza Rutynowska
Lawyer at the Civil Development Forum (FOR), Poland
Eliza Rutynowska

Eliza Rutynowska is a lawyer at the Civil Development Forum (FOR) in Poland. She is also a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Criminal Law at Warsaw University and advocate trainee at the Warsaw Bar Association. She is a Graduate in Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw and Graduate (with merit) of the British Law Center Diploma in English and European Law at the Warsaw University in cooperation with University of Cambridge. Eliza received a scholarship of the Humanity in Action Foundation - John Lewis Fellowship 2017 in Atlanta, focusing on the problem of restorative justice. She also received training of the OSCE LIVE on Preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalism, after which she created her own workshops focused on human rights education for minors placed in state-run institutions. She is also a volunteer lecturer at "Constitutional Week", a Zbigniew Hołda Society-conducted project regarding legal education of high school students in terms of law and the Constitution. From 2015 to 2020 she was working for The Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law. She is passionate about human rights, criminal law and rule of law issues.

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Twitter: @ERutynowska