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Academic qualifications:

2019           Doc., Faculty of Law, Charles University. Habilitation thesis: The outer limits of judicial interpretation and argumentation

2011           Ph.D., Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Dissertation thesis: The principle of primacy of EU law in the theory and practice of the courts of the European Union Member States

2010           JUDr. (doctor of laws), Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Doctoral thesis: The principle of primacy of EU law and the legal order of the Czech Republic

2009           Summer school Academy of European Law, European University Institute Florence

2008           Summer school Central European University, Budapest, awarded Diploma in Advanced European Union Legal Practice Magna cum Laude

2007           Mgr. (Master of Laws) with distinction, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Master thesis: Ignorantia legis non excusat

2006-2007  International and European Legal Studies Programme, Faculty of Law, Universiteit Antwerpen, graduated Magna cum Laude

 

Language competence:

English (International Legal English Certificate, C1 – Pass with Merit), French (B2)

 

Work experience:

2019 onwards associate professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Law, Charles University. Courses taught: Legal theory (seminars), political science (seminars and selected lectures), Political context of judicial power

2022 onwards reviewer for Ratio Publica

2012 onwards reviewer for Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi (Journal of Jurisprudence and Legal Practice)

2011-2019      senior lecturer, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague

2010-2011      lecturer, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague

2007-2010      legal researcher with Hogan Lovells (Prague) LLP

 

Research activities:

2023                presentation The Rule of Law – a Czech Perspective at international conference The Rule of Law Bridging or Sanctioning Differences? organised by Saxon State Ministry of Justice, Democracy, European Affairs and Gender Equality in Cooperation with Leipzig University and the Federal Administrative Court

2023                presentation Ensuring the coherence of the legal system via the Constitutional Court (in Czech) at the conference panel Thirty years of the Constitutional Court organised by the Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc

2022                presentation Restrictions imposed on the right to education in the Czech Republic due to COVID-19 pandemic at the international conference held in mixed format in Bratislava

2019                presentation Constitutional review as a tool for achieving formal, material and axiological coherence of a legal system in time – the example of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic at the international IVR congress in Luzern

2019                presentation Argumentum ex auctoritate in judicial decision-making (in Czech) at the conference Weyr’s Days of Legal Theory organised by Faculty of Law, Masaryk University Brno

2019                presentation Could politics be completely transformed into law before the Constitutional Court? (in Czech) at the workshop organised by Faculty of Law, Charles University

2018-2020      member of UNCE – Research Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague

2017-2021      principal investigator of project GAČR 17-08176S The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic: The                                         Guardian of the Constitution above Politics, or in Politics?

2016               co-ordinator of students’ project SVV 260 249 Judges as political actors in the Czech Republic and European Union and the EU fundamental values

2015                presentation Selection of Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic at VI. Congress of the Czech Political Science Association

2015                co-ordinator of students’ project SVV 260 134 Milestones in the operation of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic – circumstances, cases, personalities

2012-2017      member of UNCE – Research Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague

2012-2017      member of projects PRVOUK P04: Institutional and Normative Transformations of Law in the European and Global Context and P017: Sciences of Society, Politics, and Media under the Challenge of the Times

2012-2014      expert member of project GAČR P408/12/1255 The Key Concepts of Constitutional Theory in the Age of Changes of Paradigms

2010-2012      member of GAP408/10/1599 Methodology of interpretation of law as a guaranty for legal certainty in the modern democratic state based on the rule of law