Abstract: This paper is an enlarged and supported by footnotes version of the lecture delivered by the author on 16 June 2014 at the Silesian University in Katowice on the occasion of conferring upon him the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The author invites his listeners and readers to accompany him on a trip through academic centres for environmental law in Poland, from west to east and from north to south, starting in Szczecin and finishing in Rzeszow.