Dr. Barbara Havelkova

Biography

Barbara Havelkova holds degrees from Charles University Prague (Mgr - Master of Law; summa cum laude), Europa-Institut Saarland University (LLM), University of Oxford (Mst Legal Research, DPhil). She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and a Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda's College. She previously served as a Shaw Foundation Fellow at Lincoln College and held positions at the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) and the University of Oxford (Balliol). Barbara worked at Clifford Chance in Prague and trained with the Legal Service of the European Commission, as well as with Chambers AG Poiares Maduro at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has been an academic visitor at law schools such as Harvard University and the University of Michigan as a Fulbright scholar, and at the Jean Monnet Center of NYU Law School as an Emile Noël Fellow. Her research and teaching interests encompass gender legal studies and feminist jurisprudence, equality and anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, EU law, and law in post-socialist transitions. Barbara is a senior member of the Law Faculty's Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group. She teaches courses on Constitutional Law, EU Law, and Feminist Jurisprudence to undergraduates, and convenes an undergraduate year option on Feminist Perspectives on Law. Her book, 'Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism', published by Hart/Bloomsbury in 2017, received an honorable mention from the judges of the BASEES Women’s Forum Prize in 2019. She co-edited the volume 'Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Law Jurisdictions', published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Barbara is an active expert on gender legal issues in the Czech Republic, having acted as an Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on gender law from 2014 to 2017.

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