Stanisław Waltoś

Stanisław Marian Waltoś (born 9 February 1932) is a Polish legal scholar and academic specializing in criminal law and legal history, professor of legal sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, professor of the Jagiellonian University, who was Head of the Department of Criminal Proceedings at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University from 1974, as well as the director of the Jagiellonian University Museum between 1977 and 2011.

In the 1990s he was an expert of the Council of Europe and the government of the Republic of Latvia. In 1987–1995 he was a member of the Commission for the Reform of Criminal Law in Poland. He participated in the work on Polish criminal codifications of 1997. He was the initiator of the introduction of anonymous witness and a turn state's evidence to the Polish criminal procedure. In 2000–2002 he was a member of the Legislative Council by the Prime Minister of Poland.

He authored about 400 academic papers and other works, including the regularly updated and re-issued academic textbook ''Proces karny: zarys systemu'' (''Criminal Trial: The System Outline''). Between 1985 and 2002 he was the editor-in-chief of the journals ''Archivum Iuridicum Cracoviense'' and ''Opuscula Muzealia'' (he took the position of editor-in-chief of the latter back in 2006). In 2006 he was elected the chairman of the Scientific Council of the Ossolineum National Institute. Provided by Wikipedia