He was born on the 27^th of April, 1867. He started his legal studies at the University of Warsaw and continued his scientific career at Heidelberg University, where he received the title of Doctor of Laws. Having returned to Warsaw, he involved himself in the activities of illegal Democratic and pro-independence organizations. He was one of the founders of the ‘Zet’ Association of the Polish Youth, established in 1897. In 1916 he became the head of the Department of Justice in the Provisional Council of State, and from the 7^th of December, 1917, to the 27^th of February, 1918, he served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Jan Kucharzewski, created by decision of the Regency Council. In that period he set to work organizing independent Polish judiciary. In 1918 he was entrusted with the task of forming the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland; he became its president and held that office uninterruptedly until 1939. From 1923 he had also been the vice-president of the Codifying Committee which was charged with unification of the legal codes within the boundaries of the Second Polish Republic. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Bukowiecki involved himself in conspiratorial activities. He was one of the founders of the ‘Freedom and People’ Association, which was transformed in April 1941 into the Union of Polish Syndicalists. Bukowiecki was active on the latter organization until his death in Warsaw on the 9^th of February, 1944. His works include O dzielnicowości w Polsce współczesnej (1921), and Polityka Polski Niepodległej (1922).