Joanna Marszałek-Kawa is a Polish lawyer, political scientist, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Biography Joanna Marszałek-Kawa is the Head of the Department of the Political System of the Republic of Poland at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is also the Director of the Centre of Eastern Studies and the Vice President of Toruń branch of the Polish Association of Political Science. Marszałek-Kawa is the editor-in-chief of the journals: Polish Political Science Yearbook and New Eastern Policy(quarterly), published jointly with Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty. She is the deputy editor-in-chief of Athenaeum. Polish Political Science Studies (quarterly), and the secretary of The New Educational Review (quarterly). She is also a member of the scientific boards of the following journals: lmi əsərlər [Scientific Works] issued by Baku Slavic University in Azerbaijan; the Journal of Precarpathian National University Politology (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) and Gdańskie Studia Azji Wschodniej [Gdansk Journal of East Asian Studies]. She is the author of more than 420 scientific publications, including 10 monographs in Polish (among others, "Pozycja ustrojowa i funkcje Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej po akcesji do Unii Europejskiej", "Organizacja I funkcjonowanie Zgromadzenia Republiki w Portugalii", "Struktura i funkcjonowanie Parlamentu Europejskiego". (In English Contemporary China. The Condition of the State) and Chinese (欧洲议会与欧盟各国国家议会–The European Parliament and National Parliaments in European Union Member States, 加入欧盟后波兰豅会的地位和作用 - The Position and Role of the Polish Society after the Accession to the European Union). She is also a co-author of two books published by Cambridge Scholar Publishing—The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions. Case Studies, Vol. 1 and The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions. Comparative Analysis, Vol. 2. Her research interests include the European Parliament, Asian issues, political systems, and the constitutional systems of countries in the world. For her scientific and organizational achievements, she was awarded eight times by H.M. Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University. Her PhD thesis, "The European Parliament vs. National Parliaments in the European Union Member States", was recognized as the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political science in Poland in 2004. She has participated with speeches in numerous Polish and international conferences and scientific congresses. She is the inventor and academic coordinator of Asian international conferences and congresses held for over 11 years under the auspices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of