Adam Czarnota is an IUS Board Member and a Polish-Australian sociologist of law affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He previously served as Director of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2013–2016) and Rector of the Riga Graduate School of Law (2022–2024). Author of over a hundred scholarly publications, he co-founded the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory at the University of Wrocław. His research explores transitional justice, constitutionalism, and the rule of law.