Dr Agata Fijalkowski
Research Interests
Dr Agata Fijalkowski’s research on the dispensation of justice in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in the aftermath of WW2 is distinctly interdisciplinary. Her work draws on archival research. Current projects concern (1) an analysis of photographs of show trials in Albania, East Germany, and Poland and (2) a legal/judicial biographical inventory of the members of the legal team at the war crime trials in Poland, locating these accounts in the international criminal law timeline. To that end she was awarded the 2021 SLSA Small Research Grant to carry out work on the Polish defence lawyer Stanisław Hejmowski.
Additional Research Interests
Originally from Chicago, Agata competed her PhD in Law at the University of London. Agata is also in her final year as a part-time MA student in Screenwriting at Leeds Beckett University. To date she has written several short film and television screenplays. Agata is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Autumn 2022. She also is recipient of the EHRI/Conny Kristel Fellowship in 2023.
Other Information
See Agata’s Leeds Law School webpage at https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-agata-fijalkowski/.
Follow Agata on Twitter @AgataFijalkow and ResearchGate.
Publications
Books and Articles
Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial (GlassHouse Books) (forthcoming).
‘European Court of Human Rights’ and ‘Court Trials for Redress’, in Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nadelsky (eds), Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (2nd edn, Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming).
‘Tadeusz Cyprian: Polish War Crimes Prosecutor and Photographer’ (2021) 15(1) Law and Humanities 47-83.