Michal Bobek

Brief InformationMichal Bobek is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence. He majored in Law, and International Relations (European Studies) at Charles University, Prague (2004), and did a MJuris degree in European and Comparative Law at Oxford University, UK (2005). He has been awarded several scholarships at the Université libre de Bruxelles, l`Institut d1 Etudes européennes, Belgium, and the T. C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia. He was also awarded the Ius Commune Research Prize (Ius Commune Research School) and the Winter Williams Prize for the best performance in European Business Regulation, University of Oxford, in 2007 and 2005 respectively.

Since 2005, Michal Bobek has served as an assistant to the Chief Justice and Advisor on European and Comparative Law at the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, and has held lectures on various areas of European Law, Comparative and Constitutional Law at the Judicial Academy of the Czech Republic, of Slovakia, the Czech Chambers of Tax Advisors, and the Parliament of the Republic of Georgia (TACIS Programme). He has a command of seven foreign languages, and has authored and co-authored fi ve books and a number of academic articles in Czech, English and German.