Magdalena HabdasMagdalena Habdas (born in 1973 in Katowice, Poland) is Associate Professor (Dr hab.) who specializes in Private Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Civil and Private International Law, University of Silesia in Katowice.Magdalena Habdas has the following degrees: MA English from the University of Silesia (1996), LLM, University of Silesia (1997), MSc in Property Valuation and Management, Sheffield Hallam University (1998), LLD University of Silesia (2002), habilitation (tenure) University of Silesia (2013). She has been Certified Real Estate Valuer (since 1999), attorneyat-law (since 2013), and Head Translator of the 'International Valuation Standards' issued by the International Valuation Standards Committee (8th edition) and of European Valuation Standards, issued by TEGoVA (6th edition). She is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Regional Chamber of Attorneys at Law in Katowice, member of the State Examinations Committee for property valuers at the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, member of the Committee on Legal Sciences and Economics of the Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Expert Group on Expropriation Law (cooperating with Nijmegen University, Groningen University, the Netherlands and University of Cape Town, RSA). Magdalena has participated in the succession law working group of the Polish Commission for the Codification of Civil Law, was the team leader in the Social Rental Agencies project headed by Habitat for Humanity Poland as well as the EU Framework 7 research project TENLAW (Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe), and an active participant in the Common Core of European Private Law project (time-limited interests in land and condominiums, currently working on acquisitive prescription). In 2015, she was awarded with a National Education Committee Medal by the Polish Minister of National Education. Her publications (extract) include Publiczna w asnos´c´ nieruchomos´ci (Public ownership of real estate), Warszawa: Lexis Nexis 2012; Przedsiebiorstwo jako przedmiot stosunków prawnorzeczowych (The Enterprise as An Object of Rights in Rem), Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu S´laskiego 2007; Family and Succession Law in Poland (co-author: S. Kalus), ed. W. Pintens, Wolters Kluwer - The Netherlands 2016, 187-251; 'National Report for Poland' in The Common Core of European Private Law Series: European Condominium Law, ed. C.G. van der Merwe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 52015; 'National Report for Poland' in The Common Core of European Private Law Series: Time-limited Interests in Land, ed. C.G. van der Merve, A.L. Verbeke, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012; 'Implementing the Mortgage Credit Directive 2014/ 17 in Poland. Challenges and Dilemmas' in The Impact of the Mortgage Credit Directive in Europe. Contrasting Views from Member States, eds M. Anderson, E.A. Amayuelas, Europa Law Publishing - 2018, 384-423; 'Balancing the rights of tenants and landlords in the context of rent regulation - Polish experiences in the light of ECtHR case-law' (co-author: G. Panek) in Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe. Towards Regulatory Equilibrium, ed. Ch. U. Schmid, Edward Elgar Publishing - 2018, 199-238 (wspó autor: G. Panek); 'Poland: Gradual Growth Across Barriers' (co-author: A. Muzio -Wec awowicz) in Private Rental Housing in Transition Countries, eds J. Hegedus, M. Lux, V. Horvath, London: Palgrave-Macmillan 2017, 261-286; 'Quasi-public property: public spaces in private hands' in European and International Crossborder Private and Economic Relationships and Individual Rights, eds B. Heiderhoff, I. Queirolo, Arricia: Aracne 2016, 63-111; 'Expropriation Law in Poland'in Expropriation Law in Europe, eds J. Sluysmans, S. Verbist, E. Waring, Deventer: Wolters Kluwer 2015, 407-432; 'Fundamental premises of land expropriation in Poland' in in Rethinking Expropriation Law I. Public Interest in Expropriation, eds B. Hoops, E.J. Marais, H. Mostert, J.A.M.A. Sluysmans, L.C.A. Verstappen, the Hague: Eleven - Juta 2015, 299-330; 'The Community of Owners' Regulation of Common Property in Polish Condominium Schemes, ' Modern Studies in Property Law, Vol. VII, (Hart Publishing: Oxford - Portland, Oregon 2013), 127-149; 'Building on Someone Else's Land - The Legal Consequences of Encroachment in Polish Law', in Festschrift fur Prof. Stanislawa Kalus. Ius est ars Boni et aequi, ed. M. Habdas & A. Wudarski (Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang Verlag, 2010), 201-226; 'Public Real Estate - Private Law Reality Or Fiction?', in Property & Security: Selected Essays, ed. B. Edgeworth & L. Bennett Moses (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 2010), 33-48; 'Bank Loan Contracts in Polish Law - The Legal Position of the Borrower' (together with S. Kalus), in Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions. Protecting the Vulnerable, ed. M. Kenny, J. Devenney, L. Fox O'Mahony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 289-307; 'Tortious Liability in Polish Law for Damage Caused by Minors', in Tort Law in Poland, Germany and Europe, ed. B. Heiderhoff & G. Z mij (Munich: Sellier, 2009), 103-120; 'Who needs a park or a city square? The notion of public real estate as res publicae', Journal of South African Law no. 4 (2011): 626-649 'My Home is My Castle - But is My Castle Truly Mine? Polish Historical Immovables as Objects of Ownership', Opinio Juris in Comparatione 2, no. 5 (2010): 1-19; 'Pozycja prawna ma z onka spadkodawcy na tle prawno porównawczym (The Legal Position of the Surviving Spouse in a Comparative Context)', Rejent no. 2 (2006): 58-82; 'Polish Apartment Ownership Compared with South African Sectional Titles' (together with C.G. van der Merwe), Stellenbosh Law Review no. 1 (2006): 165-189. Read More Read Less