He studied at the Department of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. In 1913 he qualified himself as assistant professor, and in 1919 he was appointed associate professor of the Jagiellonian University. During the First World War he actively participated in the creation and operations of Józef Piłsudski’s Polish Legions. In the reborn and independent Second Polish Republic he served as the Minister of Religious Denominations and Public Education in Julian Nowak’s cabinet in 1922. In 1924 he received the National Order of the Legion of Honour (third class: Commander) from the French government. From 1925 he held the post of a member of the Court of Arbitration for the matters at issue between Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. In 1933-1939 he served as alderman in the Municipal Council of Kraków on behalf of the Nonpartisan Bloc for Economic Work. He is the author of Zarys prawa administracyjnego na ziemiach polskich (1920), Ustrój władz samorządowych na ziemiach polskich w zarysie (1921), Odbudowanie państwowości polskiej… (1924), and Ustrój polityczny Polski (1937).