Foto: Paweł Piotrowski
Awarding the Swordsman’s sword!
The most stolen white weapon in Poland – the swordsman’s sword – was bid at an auction as part of the 32nd Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity!
The University of Wrocław organised over a dozen charity auctions for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity this year, but the most spectacular one was certainly the one connected with one of the symbols of Wrocław and the University of Wrocław!
The sword donated to the auction comes from the collection of gifts received by His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Wrocław, so it was prof. Robert Olkiewicz who handed over this unique object today to dr Katarzyna Parchimowicz, who works at the University of Wrocław in the Incubator of Scientific Excellence – Digital Justice Center! We are delighted that such a valuable object – most of the previously mounted specimens were stolen from the Swordsman’s hand – will remain in the hands of the university community!
The swordsman standing in front of the University of Wrocław is one of Wrocław’s icons. Unfortunately, it has been stripped of its sword at an express pace for many years. After careful restoration of the fountain and the Fencer standing on top of it, the Wrocław City Hall organised a ceremonial unveiling of the monument on 20 June 2023. His Magnificence the Rector of the University of Wrocław, professor Robert Olkiewicz, who attended the ceremony, was presented with one of the newly made swords. Several were made, as the City Council intended that such a number would satisfy the constant appetite of vandals for snatching weapons from the Swordsman.
The sword fell into the hands of not just anyone, as Katarzyna Parchimowicz is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at Wrocław University (full-time law). She has been awarded the Rector’s scholarship for best students four times. She studied for one year at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich as part of the LLP Erasmus exchange. She also spent a semester at the University of North Carolina (Asheville) in the United States as an ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs) scholarship recipient. She wrote her master’s thesis under the supervision of professor Dariusz Adamski. She graduated with honours from the School of German Law conducted at the University of Wrocław in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
In October 2016, she started her doctoral studies at WPAiE UWr. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as an assistant in the Department of European Economic Management Law. At the beginning of 2018, she was accepted into the Young Researchers Group at the European Banking Institute in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year, she started her Master’s studies in Law and Finance at the Institute for Law and Finance (Goethe Universität Frankfurt). During these studies, she completed an internship in the banking supervision department of the European Central Bank. In April 2020, she obtained her LL.M. Finance (with a very good grade).
During the 2019/2020 academic year, she conducted research as a Junior Academic Visitor at the Commercial Law Centre (University of Oxford) and as a Visiting Scholar at Duke University School of Law (her stay in the United States was funded by a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship). From 2021, he is pursuing a three-year Prelude grant entitled ‘Wielkie banki mogą nas uratować – regulacje globalnych banków systemowo istotnych wspomagające realną gospodarkę w czasach kryzysu.’
In May 2021, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences in the discipline of legal sciences. The dissertation ‘Regulation of globally systemically important banks in the USA and in the EU’ was reviewed by professor Lawrence Baxter of Duke University School of Law and dr. prof. nadzw. UW Jacek Jastrzębski. The dissertation was awarded an honourable mention.
