Mirosław Wyrzykowski is a professor emeritus of the Warsaw University. He chaired the Comparative and Economic Law Division, and later Human Rights Chair within the Institute of Legal Administrative Studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration. In the years 1990-1995 he was a staff member of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne). He served as a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal from 2001 to 2010. Among his notable appointments, he was a member of the Prime Minister's Legislative Council (1990-1993 and 1996-2001), Director of the Centre for Constitutionalism and Legal Culture at the Public Affairs Institute (1996-2001), and a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999-2001).
Prof. Wyrzykowski is a member (and the President 2011-2015) of the Legal Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the President of the Polish Section of the International Legal Sciences Association, and a member of several councils of the scientific institutions, as well as member of the Boards of the Polish and international legal journals.