PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

 

2021                Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the Council of Europe

2012-2021      Director of the International Law Department of the Czech MFA

2009-2012      Legal Advisor of the Czech Permanent Mission to the UN in New York

2007-2009     Legal Officer at the International Law Department of the Czech MFA

2007                Legal Advisor in the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in Pristina

2005-2007     Legal Officer at the International Law Department of the Czech MFA

2004                Legal Advisor in the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) of Iraq in Bagdad

2004                Intern at the International Law Department of the Czech MFA

2002-2003     compulsory military service in the Czech Army (rank achieved: 2nd Lt.)

 

ELECTED FUNCTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS:

 

2017-2020      Vice-Chair and Chair of the Council of Europe Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI)

2011-2013       rapporteur of the Ad Hoc Committee established by the UN General Assembly to elaborate the comprehensive convention on international terrorism

2011                 Vice-Chair of the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UN General Assembly

 

EDUCATION:

 

2007-2009      The Charles University Law School in Prague: Ph.D. in international law

2008                 The Hague Academy of International Law

2004-2005      The University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor: LL.M. (Fulbright)

2003                 Diplomatic Academy of the Czech MFA

2002                 Military Academy of the Czech Army in Vyškov (within military service)

2000-2001      The J.W. Goethe University Law School in Frankfurt (exchange student)

1997-2002       The Charles University Law School in Prague: Mgr., summa cum laude

 

PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE:

- The European Convention on Human Rights and the CAHDI (in: 70^th Anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, RWW, Prague, 2021).

- The MFA in the Process of Conclusion and Internal Approval of Human Rights Treaties in the Czech Republic (in: The International Human Rights Obligations of the Post-Communist Countries: the Cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Leges, Prague, 2016).

- The Czech Contribution to the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission: the Auschwitz and Birkenau Case (CYIL, Prague, 2016).

- The Different Roles of the Czech Legal Adviser: From a Watchdog to a Headhunter (in: The Role of Legal Advisers in International Law, Brill, Leiden, 2016).

- The Czech-Austrian Declaration on Jurisdictional Immunities of State-Owned Cultural Property (CYIL, Prague, 2015).

- The Key Decisions of the International Criminal Tribunals in the Light of International Law (C. H. Beck, Prague, 2009).

- Legality versus Legitimacy and the Use of Force (in: Progress in International Law, Brill, Leiden, 2008).