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JUDr. Kateřina Štěpánková, Ph.D.
Born on April 11, 1991
She is an expert on Labour and Social Security Law.
- Received her Master's Degree in the year 2016, after graduating from Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Law.
- On June 20, 2023, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis and therefore was awarded her Ph.D. title.
- Since the year 2023 she has been an internal assistant professor at the Department of Labour and Social Security Law, Charles University, Prague.
- Currently, she is also closely cooperating with the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (Germany).
- She regularly publishes and performs her contributions at a range of conferences, journals and monographies (both domestic and international).
- As a researcher, she participates in various grant projects.
- She is (for example) a member of a local research team, which in the year 2023 applied for a brand new grant project (named UNCE).
- From October 2023 on, she is also to lead a number of her lectures at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. She actively participates in seminar teaching here as well.
During her foreign research stay in the UK, she became acquainted with the English and Welsh Labour Law culture.
- For instance their court system or the requirements laid on health and safety at work, and even actively cooperated and assisted in providing the relevant legal services in the area.
Besides all this, she has been working as an independent attorney-at-law in Prague since the year 2021.
- So far she has worked with different sorts of law offices, from the larger international, to smaller, but certainly not less significant ones.
- She has also completed a number of professional legal practices, for example in the legal department of Komerční banka (member of Societe Generale Group), the court and state prosecutor's office, or a legal internship in a notarial office.
- This very wide range of legal experience often allows her to see the Labour and Social Security Law in all its complexity and from a significantly wider point of view.