Dawid Bunikowski
Associate
Email addresses: dawid.bunikowski@uef.fi, dawid.bunikowski@gmail.com
Qualifications:
LLM, Master of Laws, Nicholas Copernicus University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Torun, Poland, 2004.
PhD, Doctor of Laws (Legal Theory), Nicholas Copernicus University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Torun, Poland, 2009.
Interests:
- law and morality, abortion law, laws concerning morally and socially controversial cases (euthanasia, homosexual marriages, pornography etc.), medical law,
- law and religion, model of relations between state and religion, relations between state and religion (and position of two official churches) in Finland, interpretation of canon law, ecclesiastical law,
- law and philosophy, jurisprudence, law and language, legal pluralism, comparative law, constitutional law, political philosophy, moral philosophy,
- history of law, Roman law, unofficial law, customary laws, diversity of laws,
- axiology of law, the European Union legal and political system,
- historical, theoretical and axiological foundations of the European legal culture,
- ethics and business, corporate governance, morality and financial crisis,
- freedom of speech, freedom in law,
- philosophy, phenomenology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, language, theology, Aristotle, St. Thomas, Catholic teaching.
- Wittgenstein, ordinary language philosophy.
Occupations:
Primary occupation: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Eastern Finland, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Department of Law, Joensuu campus, North Karelia, Finland. 2013-2015.
My project concerns the financial crisis understood as an axiological crisis, i.e. a crisis both of law and of morality. I will examine whether the crises in law and morality have affected the financial crisis; and how the crisis in the normative systems of law and morality (ethics) have affected the financial crisis. The hypothesis is as follows: the financial crisis is also an axiological crisis – the crisis of law (and the rule of law) and the crisis of morality and ethics (ethics and morality among professionals and non-professional market participants). There is a crisis of law, ethics, and corporate governance, which has produced a special morality and ethics in financial institutions (implicit norms and informal institutions).
Secondary occupation: Adjunct, Torun School of Banking, Torun, Poland.
Vice-dean from 2009 and 2011 in Faculty of Finance and Management. The scholarship of Ministry of Science and High Education for outstanding young researchers (2011-2014), by the Minister’s decision, given for “great research results and the research value for science development”. A lecturer since 2008.
More at the websites (official Finnish university websites):
http://www.uef.fi/fi/oikeustieteet/bunikowski
http://www.uef.fi/fi/oikeustieteet/lehtorit-ja-yliopisto-opettajat
https://www.uef.fi/en/oikeustieteet/current
Memberships:
- A member of Commission on Legal Pluralism, Leiden, 2010.
- A member of Polish Society of Political Sciences, 2011.
- A member of The European Society of History of Law, Brno, 2009.
- A member of The International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), 2006.
- A member of Law and Religion Scholars Network, Centre for Law and Religion, Faculty of Law, Cardiff University, 2012.
- A member of The Center for International Business Ethics, CIBE, non-governmental organization located in Beijing, China and hosted by the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), 2012.
- A member of The Moral Sciences Club, the Cambridge University, UK, 2012.
- A member of Medieval Philosophy Reading Group, Cambridge, 2012.
- A member of Polish Association of Constitutional Law, 2012.
- A member of The British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2012.
- A member of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society, 2012.
- A member of International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES, since March 2013).
- A member of The Finnish Anthropological Society (Suomen Antropologinen Seura, since February 2013).
- A member of SOFY (Suomen oikeusfilosofinen yhdistys, The Finnish Association for the Philosophy of Law, IVR). May 2013.
- International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Germany). July 2013.
- Stowarzyszenie Badań nad Źródłami i Funkcjami Prawa, Fontes (Society for Research on Sources and Functions of Law “Fontes”, Technology University of Rzeszów, Poland). June 2013.
- The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy/Nomos. August 2013.
Sample publications (selected from more than 60 publications)
The most important books written in Polish:
- Podstawowe kontrowersje dotyczące ingerencji prawa w sferę moralności
(Fundamental controversies concerning enforcement of morality by the law),
Toruń 2010, Nicholas Copernicus University.
Financed by the Ministry of Science.
- Pluralizm prawny. Tradycja, transformacje, wyzwania
(Legal pluralism. Tradition, transformations, challenges),
D. Bunikowski, K. Dobrzeniecki (editors),
Toruń 2009. Financed by the Nicholas Copernicus University.
- Integracja w Europie w myśli politycznej i prawnej. Prawo i stosunki międzynarodowe
(Integration in Europe in political and legal thought. Law and international affairs),
D. Bunikowski i R. Musiałkiewicz (editors),
Toruń 2008. Financed by the Nicholas Copernicus University.
My chapter in the book: “Religia, Kościoły i związki wyznaniowe w Unii Europejskiej. Model filozoficznoprawny”(Religion, Churches and religious organizations in the European Union. Philosophical-legal model).
The most important book chapters and articles written in English:
Chapters
- Enforcement of Morality by the Law, [in:] Law, liberty, morality and rights, ed. Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Wolters Kluwer Polska – OFICYNA, Warszawa 2010.
- Ethics, business ethics, corporate governance and corporate law in the light of the global financial crisis. Fundamental concepts and assumptions, [in:] Spójność przedsiębiorczości i nauki (Cohesion of Entrepreneurship and Science), ed. M. Jaworska, R. Musiałkiewicz, P. Tomaszewski, Toruń 2011.
- Chosen Axiological Problems Concerning the Treaty on a Constitution for Europe, (in:) European Union at the Crossroads: the Need for Constitutional and Economic Changes, ed. J. Maliszewska-Nienartowicz, Toruń 2007, Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicholas Copernicus University.
Articles
- Enforcement of morality by the law, Romanian Review of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, nr 1(7) 2008.
- Enforcement of morality by the law, (in:) 23rd IVR World Congress Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversity and Unity. Special workshops. Abstracts, Kraków 2007. (23rd IVR World Congress Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversity and Unity, August 1-6, 2007 Kraków, Polska).
- Morally controversial legal regulations, [in:] Dny Prava – 2009 - Days of Law, ed. D. Sehnalek, J. Valdhans, R. David, L. Kyncl, MasarykovaUniverzita, Brno 2009.
- Axiology and the Treaty on a Constitution for Europe, 2008, Atlantic-Community, http://archive.atlantic-community.org/app/webroot/files/articlepdf/Values_2.pdf (15.8.2013).
- Values and Axiology in the European Union Legal System In Context of The European Culture and the Constitution for Europe. Why does the EU need the axiology?, http://www.atlantic-community.org/-/values-and-axiology-in-the-european-union-legal-system-in-context-of-the-european-culture-and-constitution?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlantic-community.org%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D3%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dmaximized%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_3_keywords%3Dbunikowski%26_3_struts_action%3D%252Fsearch%252Fsearch (15.8.2013).
- Corporate governance, and the financial crisis. The new paradigm of the rule of law after the collapse. Forthcoming, a peer-reviewed Scandinavian journal, 2013/2014.
Other
- Translation: Nick Barber, Suwerenność państw a relacje: prawo europejskie – narodowe konstytucje (State sovereignty and relations: European law – national constitutions), [w:] [in:] Pluralizm prawny. Tradycja, transformacje, wyzwania (Legal pluralism. Tradition, transformations, challenges), ed. D. Bunikowski, K. Dobrzeniecki (editors), Toruń 2009. Translated from English to Polish, with Karol Dobrzeniecki. Original text: Nick Barber, Legal Pluralism and the European Union, (2006) 12(3) European Law Journal 306.