Dr Miroslaw Sadowski

Lecturer

Law

Personal statement

I am Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow since August 2023 and Programme Leader for LLM/MSc in International Maritime Law.

In the 2026/27 academic year I am teaching Admiralty Law: Courts & Jurisdictions, Innovation & Leadership, Admiralty Law: Contracts & Transactions, International Criminal Justice (all where I serve as Module Coordinator), as well as Law & Society and Human Rights Law in Theory &Practice.

I am Scientific Board Member at CRIR – Centre for Research on International Relations; and Scientific Committee Member at the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict. I am also a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Furthermore, I am a member of the British Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), Canadian Law and Society Association (ACDS/CLSA), Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN), as well the Richard Wagner Society of Wrocław, where I serve as the Board Member responsible for International Relations, and CompaRes - International Society for Iberian-Slavonic Studies, where I serve as Vice-President.

Publications

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Publications

Legal realities of time travel : lessons from popular culture: Sadowski Mirosław M, Simmonds Alexander; International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique (2026); https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-026-10580-0
A Terra Usque ad Astra : Policy Paper on Heritage, Human Rights and Space Law: Hanlon Michelle L D, Sadowski Mirosław M; (2026)
Vessels for identity: Between politics, heritage, and law - Bartosz Wojciechowski, Narrative Identity as a Condition for Authentic Legal Subjectivity (Springer 2024) - Marie Cornu, Jérôme Fromageau, Manlio Frigo, Vincent Négri, Marc-André Renold, Clea Hance, and Catherine Wallaert (eds.). 2025. Dictionnaire comparé du droit du patrimoine culturel. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. CNRS Éditions.: Sadowski Mirosław Michał; International Journal of Cultural Property Vol 33 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739126100460
Pirates and Maritime Law : Legal Constructs and Cultural Perceptions: Sadowski Mirosław Michał; (2026); https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003668350
Memory and law on the poles : flags between manifestation and contestation among social upheaval: Sadowski Mirosław M, Zavarei Seyed M A; Pólemos Vol 20, pp. 227-262 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1515/pol-2026-2009
A Right to Heritage? Lessons from the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Sadowski Mirosław Michał; Heritage and Human Rights Laws, Institutions, Actions (2026) (2026); https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-16754-5_2

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Research

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Research Interests

As a legal theoretician of culture, my main interests lie at the intersections of law and memory, sociology of law, cultural heritage law, public international law (in particular maritime law), although I am also exploring the law of Hong Kong and Macau SARs and political science in the research.

My recently published book ('Pirates and Maritime Law: Legal Constructs and Cultural Perceptions' Routledge 2027) focuses on a comprehensive examination of piracy and law's relationship through a popular culture lens.