Dr Jan Bazyli Klakla is Director of Migration, Social Policy, and Development Cooperation at CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research. He oversees a broad portfolio of projects in these areas, including work on socio-legal studies and on higher education and science policy. His projects are funded by Horizon Europe, the Polish National Science Centre (NCN), the Polish-German Foundation for Science (PNFN) and other national and international sources. He currently leads or co-leads METEOR (Horizon Europe CSA), SEAO2CDR (Horizon Europe RIA), the PNFN project “Domestic Contestation and International Cooperation: Migration and Security Policy in Polish-German Relations”, and the NCN OPUS project “Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Legal and Institutional Contexts of Early Academic Careers”.
He has been involved in numerous research and policy initiatives at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, including leading and contributing to NCN-funded studies and working within the “Safe Kraków” municipal programme.
Alongside his work at CASE, he has served as an assistant professor (post-doc) at the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory at the University of Wrocław. His research focuses on migration, socio-legal studies, higher education, and public policy. He is the author of Law and Acculturation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) and Studying in Times of Crisis (Brill, 2025), and co-editor of Law and Culture (Springer, 2021).
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