Dr hab. Aleksander Kappes is a professor at the University of Łódź. Since completing his law studies in 1990, he has been a faculty member at this university in the Department of Commercial Law, Insurance, and Industrial Property Law (formerly the Department of Economic and Commercial Law), where he currently serves as the head.

In addition to his academic work, from 1990 to 1992, Professor Aleksander Kappes completed a judicial apprenticeship, which concluded with a judicial exam, and then from 1994 to 1996, he also completed an attorney apprenticeship at the Bar Association in Łódź. After obtaining the professional title of attorney, Professor Kappes has been practising civil law, particularly commercial and company law, especially corporate law. He currently practices as an attorney in his own law office and provides consulting services for enterprises.

From 2011 to 2015, Professor Kappes was a member of the Company Law Team of the Civil Law Codification Commission at the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland, and in subsequent years, he served as an expert for the Polish Parliament on the draft amendment to the Commercial Companies Code introducing the simple joint-stock company (2019), as well as for the Polish Senate on the amendment to the Commercial Companies Code introducing, among other things, the law on corporate groups (2022).

Professor Aleksander Kappes is the author of about 80 scientific publications, including five monographs on company law, as well as a co-author of specialist studies, academic textbooks, and several dozen journalistic articles. He is also the author or co-author of over 150 legal opinions and expert reports for public institutions and entrepreneurs, including for the Sejm, Senate, and the largest Polish companies.

He is also an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw and the Arbitration Court at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers “Lewiatan.” He has participated in the supervisory boards of several companies, including those with State Treasury and municipal participation.