About

Katarína Šipulová is the head of the Judicial Studies Institute at Masaryk University, Brno. She earned her PhD at the Faculty of Social Studies, Department of European Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, and the MSt title in Socio-Legal Research at the University of Oxford. Her main area of interest are courts, judicial politics, separation of powers and democratization of the Central and Eastern European countries. Katarína Šipulová worked as Head of the International Department of the Czech Supreme Court. She has been an active member of several research projects dealing with human rights as well as international law and its impact on domestic jurisprudence (e.g. international human rights treaties in national legal systems, implementation of ECtHR case law against the Czech Republic). Katarína recently published in Regulation and Governance, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Hague Journal of the Rule of Law, German Law Journal, etc.

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Democracy, Democratisation, Elites, European Union, Human Rights, Political Theory, Political Sociology, Courts, Council of Europe, Domestic Politics, Europeanisation through Law, Judicialisation

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Law and Courts
• Human Rights and Transitional Justice
• Central and East European Politics
• European Union