Prof. Dr. Hab. Dorota Malec – Professor of Jurisprudence, Head of the Chair in Administrative History and Thought at the Jagiellonian University (JU) Faculty of Law and Administration – since 2009, Vice-Rector of JU for International Relations – since 2020. She graduated with a degree in law from the JU Faculty of Law and Administration in 1985. After completing her judge’s apprenticeship, she passed her judicial examination in 1986. She obtained the degree of PhD in Law at the Jagiellonian University in 1995, based on her dissertation titled Najwyższy Trybunał Administracyjny 1922–1939 w świetle własnego orzecznictwa (The Supreme Administrative Tribunal 1922-1939 in light of its own rulings). In 2003, also at JU, she defended her habilitation in Law, based on her dissertation titled Notariat Drugiej Rzeczpospolitej (Notary Institutions in the Second Polish Republic). In 2009, she received the title of Professor of Law. In 2008–2016, she held the function of Deputy Dean at the JU Faculty of Law and Administration. She has been a member of a number of university commissions, at the level of faculty, senate, and the rector’s office. During the 2016–2020 term of office, she held the position of Vice-Rector of JU for University Development. Her academic interests are focused on subjects related to the evolution and history of institutions of legal protection and the judiciary in 19th and 20th century Poland, as well as the administrative judiciary, law codification, the political system, and administration in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the author of over 140 books and papers, including monographs, textbooks, source texts, dissertations, and reviews, published in Poland and abroad. She has supervised 4 Doctors of Law candidates and more than 100 Masters of Law. She has reviewed about 20 doctoral and habilitation dissertations in numerous academic centres in Poland. She is also a member of editorial committees of such prestigious academic journals as “Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne” and “Krakowskie Studiów z Historii Państwa i Prawa” (Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History). Moreover, she is a co-creator of the latter of the abovementioned journals. She has received three scholarships of the Max Planck Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte. She has received several awards from the university’s rector for her research and organisational work. She has also received three individual awards from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (two for monographs and one for her work as the Disciplinary Spokesperson at the General Council of Science and Higher Education) and a medal for services to notary institutions.