Biography
Academic background
CURRENTLY • D.Phil. candidate, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
- research topic: Judicial Authority and Precedent in the European Constitutional Pluralism
- supervisor:Prof. Stephen Weatherill
- scholarships and grants: 2008-09 Modern Law Review Scholarship | 2008-09 Dulverton Scholarship | 2008-09 and 2007-08 Ruth Adler Scholarship (Somerville College) | 2007-09 Postgraduate Award 2007 Doctoral Competition (Arts & Humanities Research Council) | 2007-08 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Scholarship
SPRING SEMESTER 2008 • Oxford Exchange Visiting Doctoral Researcher, NYU School of Law (Hauser Global Law School Program)
- with support of Janet Watson Fund, Somerville College
2006/2007 • M.St. in legal research, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
- research topic: Precedent in the Context of the European Constitutional Pluralism
- supervisor:Prof. Stephen Weatherill
- scholarship:Scatcherd European scholarship
2003/2004 • LL.M. in European law, Stockholm University, Faculty of Law
- LL.M. thesis awarded prize for the best thesis in LL.M. class
1996/2001 • Master in Law (Mgr. - magister iuris), Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law (basic law degree, in 2002 I obtained JUDr. - iuris doctoris)
2006 • Total Law - Central European University Diploma in Advanced European Union Legal Practice, magna cum laude
2004 • Diploma of Academy of European Law/EU Law Session, European University Institute, Florence
2001 • Diploma in English and European Union Law, University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education
Language competence
CZECH • native speaker
ENGLISH • fluent (TOEFL score 287/300 (8 July 2005 ) – computer based test, paper based test score approximately 663/677 (Listening 28/30, Structure 28/30, Reading 30/30, Essay Rating 5,5/6,0)
FRENCH • working knowledge (Ministry of Foreign Affaires, Language Qualifications Exam - level 3 of 4 (6 February 2006)
Work experience
1 OCTOBER 2009 - • Legal Secretary to the President of the Czech Constitutional Court, legal advisor of the Court's Analytical Department
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2008 • Legal Advisor to the Czech Constitutional Court
JULY 2004 - SEPTEMBER 2006 • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic, legal counselor to the Czech Government Agent before the European Court of Justice
- participation in preparation of oral and written submissions to the Court of Justice
- drafting legal opinions in internal governmental legislative procedure dealing with Community Law etc.
- participation at sessions of the Council’s Working Group “COUR”, preparation of the Czech Republic’s positions
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2005 • Court of Justice, Cabinet of Mr. A. Rosas, Luxembourg, trainee
- research for pending cases, preparation of short notes on particular topics and arguments in pending cases (in English and French)
FEBRUARY 2002 - JULY 2003 • Institute for Environmental Policy, Prague, legal advisor
- various research projects dealing with EC environmental law
Representative publications
• "In the Court(s) We Trust?" On the need for hierarchy and differentiation in the preliminary ruling procedure, (2007) 32 European Law Review 467
• European Constitutionalism and the European Arrest Warrant: In Search of the Limits of "Contrapunctual Principles", (2007) 44 Common Market Law Review 9
• European Constitutionalism and the European Arrest Warrant: Contrapunctual Principles in Disharmony, Jean Monnet Working Paper No. 10/05
• Federal Elements in the Community Judicial System – Building Coherence in the Community Legal Order, (2005) 42 Common Market Law Review 9
• Pluralismo constitucional Europeo tras la ampliación. Un análisis de la jurisprudencia comunitaria del Tribunal Constitucional Polaco, translated into Spanish by D. Sarmiento, Revista Espanola de Derecho Europeo No 16/2005
• Předběžná otázka v komunitárním právu [Preliminary Reference in Community Law] (Linde, Prague 2005), co-authored with M Bobek, J Passer and M Gillis, xl+507 pp.
• More about my publications can be found in the special section of this website
Selected invited lectures
• Kdo je nejvyšší? Evropské soudy a Eurozatykač v laboratoři ústavního pluralismu ["Who Is the Supreme? European Courts and European Arrest Warrant in the Laboratory of Constitutional Pluralism"] , Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, 10 May 2007
• European Constitutionalism and the European Arrest Warrant, Utrecht University, School of Law, 3 April 2007
• "In the Court We Trust" But Should We?, University of Lund, Faculty of Law, 6 December 2006
Other activities related to EU studies
• Invited Fellow, Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law (TICOM)
• Assistant editor of Civil Justice Quarterly (published by Thomson Sweet & Maxwell)
• Member of the Advisory Editorial Board, Review of European Administrative Law (published by Europa Law Publishing)
• Secretary of the Czech Society for European and Comparative Law
• Editor in Chief of Eric Stein Working Papers Series
• Reporter for the Czech Republic (together with Z. Kühn) to FIDE XXIII Congress, Linz 2008
• Coaching Charles University Law Faculty team at the Central and East European Moot Court Competition (2006) – the team advanced to the final of the competition; its written submission got a prize for the best submission in the competition, a member of the team was awarded as the best speaker
• Judge at the Central and East European Moot Court Competition (2005)(the judicial panel presided by Lord Slynn of Hadley)
O.W. Holmes: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
