Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

Authors: Assoc. Prof. JUDr. Lenka Pítrová, CSc. , Department of European Law and Department of Administrative Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, member of the Legislative Council of the Czech Government Jana Plaňavová – Latanowicz has been lecturing in European law at the Centre for Europe, Warsaw University since 1997. From 1997 until 2003 she was a partner at Schaffer & Partner Law Firm, Prague. She became a member of the Czech Bar in 1994. She graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law Charles University, Prague, where she also received her PhD in public international law and worked in the early 90s. She is an author and co-author of numerous books and articles and has engaged in speaking and training activities for lawyers, government officials and business groups alike. Her field of specialisation is: human rights, EU law, comparative contract law, and international commercial arbitration. She has acted as sole arbitrator or as chairman of tribunals of three arbitrators on numerous occasions. These include ICC arbitrations and arbitration under UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Having spent over two decades in Poland, she works in Polish as well as in English and her native Czech. She is fluent in Slovak, French, and Russian as well. Nataša Chmelíčková is the Head of Unit for Asylum Legislation in the Department for Asylum and Migration Policy, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. She has extensive experience with the negotiations on EU asylum acquis and its national implementation, she has also chaired the Asylum Working Party during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU. JUDr. Magdaléna Svobodová, PhD., graduated from Charles University, Faculty of Law in 1999, and completed her Ph.D. at the same faculty in 2006. She has been a member of the Czech Bar Association since 2012. She teaches EU law and public international law at Charles University and Metropolitan University Prague. doc. Mag. phil. Dr. iur. Harald Christian Scheu, Ph.D., educated at the University of Salzburg (Dr. iur., 1995, Mag. phil., 1996) and the University of Prague (Ph.D., 1997, Doc., 2006). He has received numerous fellowships (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öff entliches Recht und Völkerrecht in Heidelberg, University of Bern, European University Institute in Florence, University of Zürich, University of Vienna) He is a member of the Council of the Government of the Czech Republic for Human Rights (since 2013) and a member of the Czech Government’s Legislative Council (since 2014). From 1997 to 2006 he lectured at the Department of International Law and since 2006 at the Department of European Law of the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague. From 2005 to 2006 he served as a diplomat at the Austrian Embassy in Prague. He teaches and conducts research in the fields of International and European Law and International Human Rights Law. Since 2015 he is a member of the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Daniel Burda, student of Ph.D. programme on the Department of Administrative Law and Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, Charles University. At the same time, he works as an assistant to a judge at the administrative section of the Municipal Court in Prague. In the past, he has dealt e.g. with the development of constitutional justice in France. In his diploma thesis he focused on the possible reform of the jurisdiction of courts in deciding on compensation for damages caused by public authorities.

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