Grażyna Skąpska - graduated in law (1970) and sociology (1974), defended her doctoral thesis in 1978 at the Institute of State and Law of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is currently professor emeritus at Jagiellonian University in Cracow at the Institute of Sociology. Her research focuses on legal consciousness, constitutionalism, political and legal transformation. She has been the recipient of many grants, including from the American Science Foundation (ASF), Volkswagen Stiftung, and several times grants from the National Science Center (Committee for Scientific Research). She was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Australia (winter semester 1993), the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney in Australia (winter semesters 1995 and 1996), and Cornell University School of Law (winter semester 1997). She has been a professor of the sociology of law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain on several occasions (in 1999, 2000 and 2001). She was vice president of the International Institute of Sociology (2001-2005). From 1996 to 1998 she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Law and Society Association. She was President of the Polish Sociological Society (2011-2018), and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Society (2015-2019). She has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1993-1995), the American Bar Foundation (1992 and 2002), Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study (1997) and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2002-2003). She was an expert at the VW-Foundation (2005-2008) and the European Research Council (2011-2913 and 2016-2017). Her book From Civil Society to Europe: Sociological Study of Constitutionalism after Communism (Brill 2011) won the first prize of the Minister of Education and Science in 2012. Grazyna Skąpska is the author or co-author of 5 monographs, and editor or co-editor of 7 collective books, published by Routledge, Brill, Universitas, among others. She is the author of about 150 articles published in Poland and abroad.