conferences etc
26/5/2011 - Presentation “Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Constitutional Conflicts: the Approaches and Practice in the Courts in Central European EU Member States” at the seminar "Fundamental Rights and Legal Principles versus Legislative Freedom". Elsa Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia.
21/5/2011 - Conference "Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives". Second Conference of the Anglo-German State of the State Fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford.
20/5/2011 - Workshop "Human Rights Law Today - In Europe and the UK", Europaeum and Oxford Faculty of Law, Oxford.
6/5/2011 - Presentation "Chyby v legislativě Evropské unie", at the conference "Formování postoje ČR k tvorbě a uplatňování legislativy EU", Metropolitní univerzita Praha, Prague.
29/4/2011 - 1/5/2011 - judge, Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania.
31/3/2011 - 1/4/2011 - Conference "Constitutional Conversations in Europe – Actors, Topics and Procedures", presentation with the topic "The European Mandate of Ordinary Courts and the Changing Position of Constitutional Courts: A Critical Introduction from the European Perspective". University of Antwerp and Maastricht University, Antwerp, Belgium.
11/2/2011 - Presentation "Odpovědnost za škodu způsobenou porušením práva Evropské unie" at the conference "Aplikace práva Evropské unie v České republice", Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Prague.
10/2/2011 - Presentation "Etika a disciplína soudce: historický a srovnávací pohled na současnou českou a slovenskou praxi" at the conference "Zodpovednosť sudcu: Sudcovská etika a disciplinárna zodpovednosť", Via Iuris, Senec, Slovakia.
20/1/2011 - Presentation at the workshop "Legal Transition and Judicial Reform in Post-Communist Europe: The Impact of the EU", Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada.
11/1/2011 - Presentation at the conference "Jak odůvodňovat rozhodnutí správních soudů?", Nejvyšší správní soud, Brno, Czech Republic.
2010
3/11/2010 - 6/11/2010 - XXIV FIDE Congress, Madrid, Spain.
26/8/2010 - 27/8/2010 - lecturing at the "Letní škola interpretace práva", Common Law Society, Špindlerův mlýn, Czech Republic.
17/6/2010 - 18/6/2010 - XVIII Karlovarské právnické dny/Karlsbader Juristentage, panel chair, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
7/5/2010 - Conference "Vnútroštátne súdy a európske súdy: spojené alebo paralelné svety?", panel chair & presentation "Mýtus procesní autonomie členského státu". Trnavská univerzita, Právnická fakulta, Slovakia.
1/5/2010 - 2/5/2010 - judge, Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria.
15/1/2010 - 16/1/2010 - Conference "National judges and supranational laws on the effective application of the EC law and the ECHR", co-presenting reports on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Sant’Anna Legal Studies, Pisa, Italy.
2009
26/11/2009 - 27/11/2009 - Conference "Presvedčivosť a transparentnosť rozhodovania súdov", presentations "Ještě by si v tom tak někdo četl! úvahy o proměně vnímání publicity soudních rozhodnutí" and "V ráji zákonně zjevného; kritický pohled na odůvodňování soudních rozhodnutí ve středoevropském právním prostoru". Via Iuris, Senec, Slovakia.
14/11/2009 - Workshop "Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union Court System", key-note speech "The Importance of Being a Textualist - Lessons in Central European Judicial History". Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
20/6/2009 - 21/6/2009 - Workshop "Shaken Order; Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies", presentation "Judicial Transitions in Post-Communist Societies". Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria.
3/6/2009 - 4/6/20009 - Conference "Language, Rights, and European Democracy", paper presentation: "The Language of European Law; the Myths, the Legends and the Reality before National Authorities", University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen, Denmark.
21/5/2009 - Seminar "Regulace trhu", contribution "Soudní (de)regulace trhu; příklad judikatury Soudního dvora ES v oblasti svobodného pohybu zboží", Nejvyšší správní soud, Brno, Czech Republic.
1/5/2009 - 4/5/2009 - judge, Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition 2009, Kyiv, Ukraine.
30/4/2009 - Conference "Rovnost v evropském právu: platónské právní nebe/Equality in European Law: A Platonic Heaven?", Czech Society for European and Comparative Law & Poradna pro občanství, Prague, Czech Republic.
20/4/2009 - 21/4/2009 - Conference "The European Court of Justice and the Autonomy of the Member States", paper presentation: "The Old Remedies and the New Member States - A Case Study on “procedural autonomy” of the Member States in the Area of National Procedures Relating to Preliminary Ruling", European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
16/4/2009 - 17/04/2009 - Conference "Aplikace Aarhuské úmluvy v praxi", panel chair, Ministry of the Environment & Supreme Administrative Court, Brno, Czech Republic.
20/3/2009 - 21/3/2009 - Conference "Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond", panel chair, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
26/2/2009 - Presentation at the Seminar "O právnické češtině aneb má i jazyk svá práva?", Judicial Academy and the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic.
2008
6/11/2008 - 9/11/2008 - Workshop "Shaken Order; Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies". Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria.
24/9/2008 - 25/9/2008 - Conference "Disciplinárna zodpovednosť sudcov", contribution "Možné modely kárné odpovědnosti – srovnávací pohled", Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic, Omšenie, Slovakia.
3/7/2008 - 4/7/2008 - Conference "The Next 50 Years: The Future of European Law & Policy", paper presentation: "Interpreting Community Law in National Courts; the Players, the Stakes and the Rules of the Game". Birmingham Law School, Institute of European Law, United Kingdom.
15/6/2008 - 16/6/2008 - 21st Colloquium of the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union, Warsaw, Poland.
12/6/2008 - Conference "Předběžná otázka v české praxi", conference chair. Czech Society for European and Comparative Law & Supreme Administrative Court, Brno, Czech Republic.
28/5/2008 - 31/5/2008 - XXIII FIDE CONGRESS, Linz, Austria.
2/5/2008 - 5/5/2008 - judge, Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition 2008, Poznan, Poland.
21/4/2008 - 22/4/2008 - Conference "Reforma právnického vzdělávání a globalizace", panel chair. Slovenský institut, Prague.
2007
29/11/2007 - 30/11/2007 - 12th Ius Commune Congress, Ličge, Belgium. Receipt of the 2007 Ius Commune Prize.
16/11/2007 - 17/11/2007 - International Workshop “Reasonableness and Law” - discussant on the topic of "Reasonableness in Administrative and Public Law", European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
10/10/2007 - 11/10/2007 - Workshop "Constitutional Courts in Central and Eastern Europe: An Overview and Perspectives" - paper presentation: "Constitutionality as Distrust: Constitutional Courts, Supreme Courts and Beyond", Universitŕ degli studi di Trento, Italy.
21/9/2007 - Journée d’Etude: L’europe des cours: loyautés et résistances - paper presentation: "Les « résistances/loyautés » nationales face ŕ la Cour de Justice des Communautés Européennes - L’analyse juridique", Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
6/9/2007 - 8/9/2007 - 4th General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research - paper presentation: "Governance without Hierarchy? Contrasting Models of the Administration of Courts in Central Europe", Pisa, Italy.
1/8/2007 - 7/8/2007 - XIII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy - paper presentation & panel chair: "The Use of Comparative Jurisprudence as a Tool of Legal Transition", Cracow, Poland.
4/5/2007 - 7/5/2007 - judge, Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition 2007, Budapest, Hungary.
9/3/2007 - 10/3/2007 - International Conference - The Treaty of Rome - 50 Years On! - paper presentation: "The Binding Force of Babel; Enforcement of EC Law Unpublished in the Languages of the New Member States", organised by the University of Cambridge and the Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.
2006
22/11/2006 - 23/11/2006 - International Conference - The Role of Supreme Jurisdictions in Europe; Time for a Change? Supreme Administrative Court, Brno, Czech Republic.
17/11/2006 - 18/11/2006 - Colloque international - Les réformes des systčmes judiciaires dans les pays d´Europe centrale et orientale, GASPPECO, Université libre de Bruxelles. Paper presentation: "Some Reflections on Institutional and Mental Transitions of the Central European Judiciaries", Brussels, Belgium.
05/05/2006 - 08/05/2006 - judge in the Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.
26/02/2006 - 05/03/2006 - Jean Monnet Seminar - Advanced Issues of European Law, 4th session, organized by the University of Zagreb Law Faculty. Paper presentation: "A New Legal Order, or a Non-existent one? Some (Early) Experience in the Application of EU Law in the Czech Republic", Dubrovnik, Croatia.
guest lectures
British Law Centre, Uniwersytet Warsawski, Warsaw, Poland (March 2011) | British Law Centre, Uniwersytet Warsawski, Warsaw, Poland (March 2010) | Institut für Europarecht, Universität Freiburg, Switzerland (December 2009) | Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, Právnická fakulta, Slovakia (November 2009) | Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze, Facoltŕ di Giurisprudenza, Florence, Italy (April 2009) | British Law Centre, Uniwersytet Warsawski, Warsaw, Poland (March 2009) | Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze, Facoltŕ di Giurisprudenza, Florence, Italy (April 2008) | Bratislavský inštitút humanizmu, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (February 2008) | Supreme Court, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (February 2008) | Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge (February 2008) | Charles University, Faculty of Law (April 2007; December 2007).
professional education
Regular lecturing on various aspects of European Union
Law, European Convention, and Czech administrative and constitutional law
for legal practitioners (judges, judicial trainees,
advocates, public servants, tax advisors) | over the
last 7 years taught in total several hundreds of lecturing hours in
professional (continuing) education.
Since 2006 – EU law lecturer at the Judicial Academy of the Czech Republic
| since 2007 – EU law and legal theory
lecturer at the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic.
Other institutions and organisations for which I lectured included for instance: Parliament of the Republic of Georgia (in the framework of the TACIS Programme) | Czech Office for the Protection of Competition | Czech Ombudsman Office | The Czech Chamber of Tax Advisors | Czech Chamber of Auditors | Counselling Centre for Citizenship, Civil and Human Rights | C. H. Beck | BPM Slovakia | In-house training in EU law for major Czech and international law and tax firms and NGOs.
teaching
Academic Year 2008 - 2009:
External lecturer for the University of Cambridge, Board of Continuing Education - Diploma in an Introduction to English and European Union Law.
Academic Year 2007 - 2008:
Research assistant to professor Jacques Ziller, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence.
Guest lecturing:
University of Cambridge, Board of Continuing Education - Diploma in an Introduction to English and European Union Law.
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law (autumn 2007)
- Právo a právní praxe I.
- Akademické psaní
Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Law (spring 2008)
- Kurz právnických dovedností
Academic Year 2005 - 2006:
- Akademické psaní pro právníky
Autumn and Spring term, Masaryk University Faculty of Law, Brno.
- EC Law I and EC Law II (Advanced)
Spring term, the New Anglo-American College, Prague.