about the boy
Michal Bobek was born in August 1977 in Chrudim and happens to be still alive
(information accurate as of May 2011)
The salient biographical bits include:
2011 doctor of laws | Department of Law | European University Institute | EUI excellence grant
2009 judicial examination | excellent
2008/2009 head of the Research and Documentation Department | Supreme
Administrative Court of the Czech Republic.
2005/2009 legal secretary to the Chief Justice | Supreme Administrative Court
of the Czech Republic.
2008 Shaken Order Fellow | Centre for Advanced Study | Sofia.
2007 Ius Commune Research Prize | Ius Commune Research School.
2007 master of research in law | European University Institute | Department of Law
2004/2005 magister juris, University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall | Jenkins Memorial
Scholar; Visegrad Fellow | distinction & the Winter Williams Prize
2004 stagiaire, Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, Brno
1998/2004 magister (law), Charles University Law Faculty, Prague | summa cum laude | academic merit scholarships | Law Faculty Foundation scholarship
2001/2004 magister (international relations), Charles University Faculty of Social Sciences,
Institute of Political Studies, Prague
2003 exchange student at the T.C.Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland,
Australia | Sasakawa Fellow| Charles University Mobility Fellowship
2002 paralegal with Renouf & Co, European Law Firm, Brussels
2001/2002 Erasmus-Socrates exchange student at the Institut d´études européennes,
2001 Summer Course in Legal Theory, European Academy of Legal Theory,
Katholieke Universiteit and Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels
2001 English Legal Methods Summer School, University of Cambridge
| Trinity College Scholarship | Sasakawa Fellow|
1999/2001 Diploma in English and European Union Law, University of
Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education | distinction
1999 traineeship, Accademia Europea di Bolzano, department for ethnic
minorities and regional autonomies, Italy
1998/2001 bachelor (international studies), Charles University Faculty of Social Sciences,
Institute of International Studies, Prague | summa cum laude
| academic merit scholarships | Dean's mention for outstanding B. A. thesis
1994/1995 Austausschschüler | Joseph-König-Gymnasium Haltern am See (Oberstufe I),
Haltern - Sythen | Nordrhein - Westfalen | Germany
1992/1997 Gymnázium Josefa Ressela, Chrudim | distinction
fluent in English (IELTS, 8.0 | 2003), German (Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom, sehr gut | 2002), French (DALF, 16/20 | 2002) and, on his good days, in Czech as well | basic passive knowledge of Latin, able to read in Slovak and Polish
e, naturalmente, sta studiando l´italiano...
some additional fun:
co-founder and the first president (2007 - 2010) of the Czech Society for European and Comparative Law
| co-founder and member of the Czech Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society, former member of the steering committee (2007-2009)
| convenor (2007 - 2010) of the EUI Working Group on Courts and Judges
| member of the Editorial Board of Soudní rozhledy (C. H. Beck)
| member of the Editorial Board of Právní rozhledy (C. H. Beck)
| of the Scientific Board of the Revista Română de Drept European
| former editor (in-chief) of the Common Law Review, Prague.
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I could not think of any fancy intellectual quote that is
normally expected to be added as the great intellectual
stimulus at places like this, so what about a picture of a fat lazy
Italian cat instead?
