Justice Kazimierz Buchała was born on 6 February 1924 in Gierałtowice, and died on 7 September 2002.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in 1950. Judge Buchała earned his juris doctor degree in 1957, and a habilitated doctor's degree in 1964. In 1972 he was awarded the title of professor, and in 1977 he became full professor.

Between 1951 and 1952 he served as a judge on the Voivodship Court in Cracow. Included in the list of advocates in 1953, he served as dean of the Regional Bar Council in Cracow from 1953 to 1967. In the 1970s, and again between 1983 and 1986 he was a member of the presidium of the Supreme Bar Council. From 1981 to 1983 he served as chairman of the Supreme Bar Council. From 1967 he headed the Chair of Penal Law in the Jagiellonian University, Between 1968 and 1972, he served as dean of the Faculty of Law of that university, and from 1970 to 1982 as director of the Institute of Penal Law.

He was a member of the Committee on Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Legislative Council of the Prime Minister.

He is an author of more than 200 scholarly publications on criminal law.

Kazimierz Buchała was a Justice of the Constitutional Tribunal from 1985 to 1989.