1. Janusz Kochanowski was born in Czestochowa in Poland on 18 April 1940.
13 Facts About Janusz Kochanowski
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Janusz Kochanowski was married to a Polish philologist, Ewa and had two children: Marta, a lawyer, and Mateusz, a law student.
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Janusz Kochanowski graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw and completed his court training in the Voivodeship Court in the capital city of Warsaw between 1964 and 1966.
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Janusz Kochanowski wrote his doctoral thesis on "The Subjective Boundaries of Criminal Liability" and obtained his doctoral degree in 1980.
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Janusz Kochanowski served as an expert for the Senate Commission for Human Rights and the Rule of Law from 1989 to 1991.
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From 1995, Janusz Kochanowski was a member of the District Council of Legal Advisers in Warsaw and, from 1980 to 1991, he was a member of the independent self-governing trade union Solidarity.
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Janusz Kochanowski was a founder-member of the Association for National Remembrance, a member of the International Adviser Journal of Criminal Law and Philosophy and a member of the European advisory committee for Caselex.
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In 1998, Janusz Kochanowski became a member of the team formed to assess the creation of a Civil Service in Poland and was the author of the report prepared at that time.
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Janusz Kochanowski was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
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Janusz Kochanowski was the editor of a special edition published this year in the United States of America by American Behavioral Scientist and entitled "International Terrorism Through Polish Eyes".
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Janusz Kochanowski was the author of over 100 works on penal, administrative and constitutional law as well as international relations.
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Janusz Kochanowski is the author or co-author of several commentaries, including Przestepstwa i wykroczenia drogowego ["Road Traffic Offences and Misdemeanours"] and the established classic commentaries to the Highway Code.
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On 16 April 2010, Janusz Kochanowski was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta and on 20 April he was buried with full military honours in the family grave at the cemetery in Czestochowa.