Tomasz Pietrzykowski, Doctor of Juridical Science, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice and the Head of the Research Centre for Public Policy and Regulatory Governance. His research interests include the questions of theory and philosophy of law, in particular bioethics, legal regulations in the field of medicine, and legal protection of animals. He published, among others, Naturalism and the Frontiers of Legal Science (2021), Personhood Beyond Humanism: Animals, Autonomous Agents and the Law (2019), Ujarzmianie Lewiatana. Szkice o idei rządów prawa [Taming the Leviathan: Essays on the Idea of the Rule of Law] (2014), Intuicja prawnicza. W stronę zewnętrznej integracji teorii prawa [Legal Intuition: Towards External Integration of Legal Theory] (2012), Etyczne problemy prawa [The Ethical Problems in Law] (2011). He is the Chair of the National Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation and the council chairman of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, as well as the deputy chairman of the Bioethics Committee of the Silesian Medical Chamber, formerly also of the Bioethics Committee at the Medical University of Silesia. The President of Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice. [22.02.2023]