EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ACTION / Alla Tymofeyeva (ed.)

ABOUT THE AUTHO R S

Bílková, Veronika Doc. JUDr. PhDr. Veronika Bílková, Ph.D., E.MA, is associate professor in international law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague and the head of the Centre for Inter- national Law at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. Since 2010, she has been the member of the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe on behalf of the Czech Republic. She is also member of the Managerial Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Secretary-General of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and chair of the Working Group of Human Rights of Older Persons under the Czech Government’s Council for Human Rights. She has authored several books and more than 100 articles in Czech, English and French on international law (mainly the use of force, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and human rights) and inter- national relations (mainly security topics and the UN). Hnátík, Petr Mgr. Petr Hnátík graduated from the Faculty of Law of theWest Bohemian University in Pilsen in 2000. Throughout his professional career, he has worked for several international organisations, including the OSCE, IOM and the Council of Europe, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Since 2011, he has been working in the Secretariat of the CPT. Pysk, Vladimír Janoušek JUDr. Vladimír Janoušek Pysk, LL.M. graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague (2013). As a student, he took part in the Erasmus Exchange Programme, which he spent at the University of Leiden, where he later returned to complete a Master’s degree in EU law (2015). Since graduation until nowadays, he has been working as a lawyer and from 2018 as a head of a department at the Office of the Czech Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights. Over the years, he drafted, participated, or directly supervised the preparation of the Government’s defence in dozens of cases, including proceedings before the Grand Chamber and, more recently, in the matter of an inter-state application. He is a member of the author’s team, which currently writes a commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights. Occasionally, he gives lectures at the Czech Judicial Academy and at the faculties of law of the universities in Prague and Brno. Šturma, Pavel Prof. JUDr. Pavel Šturma, DrSc., graduated from Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Philosophy. He is currently Professor and Head of the Department of International Law, Charles University (Prague), Faculty of Law, and coordinator of the Research Centre for Human Rights (UNCE). Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Law, Czech Academy of Sciences. Former professor at the Pan European University, Faculty of Law (Bratislava, Slovakia). Member and chairperson of the UN International Law Commission. President of the Czech Society of International Law. Editor-in-Chief of the Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law. He is author or co-author of 19 books and more than 180 articles and studies in International Law. The main topics of his research include human rights, the codification of international law, international responsibility and international investment law.

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