Dr Krzysztof Szczucki Assistant professor at the Chair of Comparative Criminal Law and the Manager of the Center for the Promotion of Polish Legal Sciences at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw; chief specialist at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, member of the Advisory Panel to the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the protection of the human being in the context of developments in biology and medicine, research fellow of the Foundation for Polish Science.