Speaker Series

Wednesday, November 12
Democratic Transformation and Crime Control in Central Europe

Queen's Daughters Dining Room
5 to 6 p.m.
CLE Credit: 1.2
Reception to Follow
Register online by Friday, Nov. 7, 2008.
If there are any questions, please contact Kay Graeff at 314-977-2792.

Professor Emil W. Plywaczewski
Law and Criminology Professor and Chair, Institute of Criminal Law, University of Bialystok, Poland

Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 12, for a presentation by Professor Emil W. Plywaczewski, the chief coordinator of the Polish Platform for Homeland Security, a member of the expert group of the European Commission (DG Justice and Home Affairs Unit for Co-operation in Criminal Matters), and a United Nations consultant for the implementation of its project, Assessment of Organized Crime in Central Asia.

Professor Plywaczewski is a law professor and Chair of both the Criminology and Substantive Penal Law Departments at the University Of Bialystok, Poland. He was the first author in Poland to publish monographs on organized crime and on money laundering. His articles have been published in more than 290 publications in Poland and abroad. He has served as a visiting professor or a guest lecturer at more than 42 universities across the globe. Professor Plywaczewski received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Scholarship as well as the Swiss National Foundation's Scholarship to Support Scientific Research. In 1997 the International Division of the American Society of Criminology awarded him its Distinguished International Scholar Award.

Commentator: Professor Eric Miller
Saint Louis University School of Law