Zbigniew Lasocik
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University of Warsaw
Poland

Professor Zbigniew Lasocik, Ph.D., is full professor of law and criminology specializing in human trafficking, serious criminality, prison systems and human rights. He serves as the Director of The Human Trafficking Studies Centre, University of Warsaw. Professor Lasocik was visiting scholar  of Columbia University in New York, California State University in Los Angeles, Harvard University in Cambridge, John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and several other universities in the US, UK and Argentina. Mr Lasocik is an expert of the United Nations, European Commission, OSCE and Council of Europe and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture in Geneva. He served as a President of the Polish Section of the International Commission of Jurists in Poland. He participated in over 60 international fact finding and assessment missions regarding prisons, torture prevention, human rights and human trafficking. Professor Lasocik has been a recipient of the Zbigniew Holda Human Rights Award in 2015. He graduated from law and criminology/sociology. He is an author of over one hundred twenty scientific publications (books, articles and research reports) in criminology, human trafficking, human rights, torture prevention and prison systems.