The study attempts to answer the question of whether the punishment of deprivation of the right to practice the profession of academic teacher has been optimally regulated, given the analysed examples of an analogous punishment in selected legal professions, alternatively, whether the regulations concerning it need to be improved, and if so, to what extent. The study also considers the consequences that this penalty raises under labour law (in comparison with the penalty under Article 276(1)(7) of the Law on Higher Education and Science). The consideration also includes the context of analogous disciplinary punishments in the legal professions of public trust.