Piotr Ślęzak

Lawyer, legal counsellor, a specialist in intellectual property law. He studied law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia. His PhD thesis he defended at the home faculty in 1998, where also his habilitation colloquium was held in 2007. Scholarship bursar of the Max Planck Institute in Munich. Since 2008 he is an arbitrator for the Arbitration Court for Internet Domains at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

He lectured (civil law and intellectual property law) at the University of Silesia, University of Economics in Katowice, School of Banking in Poznan, Higher School of Tourism in Żywiec, Higher School of Management and Marketing in Sosnowiec. Author of 55 publications (mainly in the field of copyright law), including books: 1) Contract for the distribution of the film, Warsaw 1999, 2) Fields of exploitation of audio-visual works, Bydgoszcz - Katowice 2006, 3) The use of the structure of fields of exploitation in the field of audio-visual copyright contracts, Katowice 2007, 4) Copyright. Textbook for students of film schools, Katowice 2008, 2015, 5) Protection of image rights, Katowice 2009, 6) State Pharmaceutical Inspection, in Pharmaceutical Law. Commentary, ed. L. Ogiegło, Warsaw 2010, 2015, 7) Advertising as an act of unfair competition, Katowice 2011, 8) Selected issues of the law for the company, Katowice 2011, 9) Supervision of medical products, in R. Blicharz , L. Chmielniak, L. Ogiegło, P. Ślęzak, M. Tarnawski, L. Wilk, Law on medical products. Commentary, Warsaw 2012, 10) Contracts in the field of contemporary visual arts, Warszawa 2012, 11) Copyright. Templates of contracts with commentary, Warsaw 2012, 2015.

During the term 2008 – 2012, he was Associate Dean for Students at the Faculty of Radio and Television, and during the term 2012 - 2015 an Attorney of the Dean for the quality of education. Awarded with the Rector Prize at the University of Silesia (1998, 2008).