On 20 March 2025, a ceremony was held in the walls of the Jagiellonian University – the honorary doctorate was awarded to justice Jacek Gudowski, authority not only in the legal and moral environment. This event became not only an academic holiday, but besides an inflammatory point for serious reflection on the condition of the Polish judiciary. Prof. Michał Romanowski, 1 of the most respected civilian law experts in Poland, took the level on this issue.
In the text published in “Rzeczpospolita”, the prof. does not hide frustration with the current policy of Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar. As he points out, alternatively of making a clear stand on the side of the regulation of law, the minister seems to search a "legal comfort" of those who were promoted with the participation of the neoKRS and president Andrzej Duda. It thus omits the real voice of the judicial community, which demands the restoration of constitutional order in the judiciary.
The reviewers present at the ceremony in Krakow – prof. Andrzej Jakubecki and prof. Paweł Grzegorczyk – are characters symbolising integrity to political pressures. Both resigned from judgement or were ignored by power for political reasons. Their presence was not an accident – it was a clear signal of opposition to the deformation of the judiciary.
“I was, I saw, heard, felt,” Romanowski relates, expressing emotional and legal unrest. His words are not simply about individual disappointment, but about the appeal to the conscience of the legal society. The celebration, which was to be an honor of the individual, became a manifestation of the conflict for independent justice and a reminder that the law could not be comfortable—must be fair.
Professor Romanowski recalls that loyalty to the regulation of law requires civilian courage. In the face of current challenges, silence means consent – and this, in his opinion, cannot take place.
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“See, hear, feel” – the voice of the conscience of the law: Prof. Michał Romanowski versus Minister Bodnar
