Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Personal

• Katarína Šipulová, Ph.D., M.St.
• Date of birth: 13 November 1986
• Nationality: Slovak

Department

• Judicial Studies Institute

Employment - Position

• Head of the Judicial Studies Institute

Education

• 2017 PhD (Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University)
• 2017 MSt (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
• 2011 Mgr. (Právnická fakulta, MU)
• 2011 Mgr. (Fakulta sociálních studií, MU)

Employment

• 2021 - Head of the Institute (Judicial Studies Institute)
• 2023 - Assistant Professor (Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science)
• 2016-2021 PostDoc (Judicial Studies Institute)
• 2016-2018 External Advisor, Supreme Court of the Czech Republic
• 2011-2015 Head of the Department of Analytics and Comparative Law, Supreme Court of the Czech Republic

Teaching Activities

• Introduction to European Human Rights Law (mandatory course for master students of European governance (MUNI-Utrecht), Constitutional Law (mandatory master course, Law Faculty MUNI), Political science (mandatory master course, Law Faculty MUNI), Human Rights and Democracy (mandatory undergraduate course, Faculty of Social Studies, MUNI), Transitional justice (facultative undergraduate course, Faculty of social studies MUNI), Empirical legal research (facultative PhD course, Law Faculty MUNI), Judges and Judiciaries (facultative master course, Law Faculty, MUNI)

Scientific and Research Activities

• Grant projects as PI
• 1. 2025-2028 (3 years) Horizon RIA Grant "NET-ROL" - Networks and the Rule of Law: Uncovering Socio-Economic Outcomes
• Other projects
• 1. 2021-2026 (5 years) ERC Consolidator Grant “INFINITY – Informal Judicial Institutions: Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay”
• 2. 2016-2021 (5 years) ERC Starting Grant “JUDI-ARCH – The Rise of Judicial Self-Government: Changing the Architecture of Separation of Powers without an Architect”
• 3. 2016-2018 (3 years) Czech Grant Agency Grant, “BeCOM – Beyond Compliance: Implementation of decisions of international human rights bodies
• 4. 2017 (1 year) Nordic Funds Legislating from Strasbourg: How International Human Rights Commitments Impact Domestic Legislation
• 5. 2013-2015 (3 years) Czech Grant Agency Grant, “International Human Rights Commitments of the Czech Republic: trends, practices, causes and repercussions
• Research focus: Separation of powers, constitutional courts, judicial governance, professional role conception, perceived judicial independence, autonomy of constitutional bodies

Fellowships and internships

• 2017 PluriCourts, University of Oslo
• 2024-2025 ReConstitution Fellowship

University Activities

• Supervision of undergraduate students, master students and PhD students (in areas of constitutional law, European studies, international relations, focus on empirical legal research, courts, judges, human rights and democracy)

Activities Outside University

• Memberships 1. 2017 – now Member of the Steering Committee, European Political Science Consortium, Standing Group “Law and Courts”. This is an elected position within the core European political science group working on courts and judges. I am responsible for organisation of annual conferences (approx.200 members), expert workshops, book-launches, but also for support of early career scholars (financial and academic).
• 2. 2018 – now Member of Advisory Board of Central and Eastern European Chapter, ICON-S
• 3. 2019 – now Member of the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Prevention of Discrimination, governmental Council of Human Rights, Czechia. My role relates to expert commentary on procedural aspects of judiciary and its interference with rights of individuals
• 4. 2020 – now Founding member of the Interest Group “Informal Institutions”, International Constitutional Law Society (ICON-S). I established this group together with Bjoern Dressel, Raul Sanchez Urribarri and David Kosař. The group creates a platform for Exchange, book launches and workshops among global scholars who work on informality, constitutional conventions and abuses of rule of law.
• 5. 2022 – now Fellow of the Oxford Global Society, Oxford, UK. A think tank aimed to engage public in scholarly debates and make scholarship more visible in society, political or general debate)
• Reviewing for journals:
• International Journal of Transitional Justice, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Global Constitutionalism, Law & Society Review, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Maastricht Journal of Comparative and International Law, International Journal of Law and Society, Common Market Law Review, Springer, Onati Socio-Legal Series, Utrecht Journal of International Law, Law and Policy, ECPR Political Research Exchange, Journal of Court Administration, Global Constitutionalism, Global constitutionalism, Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi.
• External evaluator of research excellence (Czech Republic)

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 1. ICON – Best Paper Award 2024 for Comparative Court-Packing (with David Kosař)
• 2. MUNI Scientist 2023 Award for excellence and significant achievements in research (for the publication Judicial Self-Governance Index: Towards better understanding of the role of judges in governing the judiciary), 2023

Major Publications

• KOSAŘ, David, Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ and Ondřej KADLEC. The Case for Judicial Councils as Fourth-Branch Institutions. European constitutional law review. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2024, vol. 20, No 1, p. 82-119. ISSN 1574-0196. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1574019624000038. Open access článku info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. The Light and the Dark Side of Judicial Resistance. Law & Policy. England: Wiley, 2024, p. 1-25. ISSN 0265-8240. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12247. Open access článku info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína and David KOSAŘ. Purging the Judiciary After a Transition: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law. 2024. ISSN 1876-4045. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40803-024-00201-y. Open access článku info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Judicial Resistance: The Shield and The Sword of Informality. In Björn Dressel, Raul Sanchez-Urribarri, Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg. Informality and Courts. 1st ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, p. 136-153. ISBN 978-1-3995-3525-0. Web info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína and Max STEUER. From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity. In Kriszta Kovács. The Jurisprudence of Particularism National Identity Claims in Central Europe. 1st. Neuveden: Hart Publishing, 2023, p. 81-104. Bloomsbury Open Access, Hart Publishing 2023. ISBN 978-1-5099-6012-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509960156. Open access knihy info
• KOSAŘ, David and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Comparative court-packing. Icon-International Journal of Constitutional Law. England: Oxford Univ Press, 2023, vol. 21, No 1, p. 80-126. ISSN 1474-2640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moad012. Open access časopisu info
• KOSAŘ, David and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Politics of judicial governance. In Mark Tushnet and Dimitry Kochenov. Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law. 1st. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, p. 262-285. Research Handbooks in Law and Politics series. ISBN 978-1-83910-163-2. Repozitář MU Web nakladatele info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Judicial Resilience and Democratic Decay. 2023. Web workshops info
• KOSAŘ, David, Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ and Marína URBÁNIKOVÁ. Informality and Courts: Uneasy Partnership. German Law Journal. Cambridge University Press, 2023, vol. 24, No 8, p. 1239-1266. ISSN 2071-8322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2024.1. Open access článku info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína and Samuel SPÁČ. (No) Ghost in the Shell: The Role of Values Internalization in Judicial Empowerment in Slovakia. German Law Journal. Lexington: Washington & Lee University School of Law, 2023, vol. 24, No 8, p. 1412-1431. ISSN 2071-8322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.88. Open access článku info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína and David KOSAŘ. Decay or Erosion? The Role of Informal Institutions in Challenges Faced by Democratic Judiciaries. German Law Journal. Cambridge University Press, 2023, vol. 24, No 8, p. 1577-1595. ISSN 2071-8322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.89. Open access článku info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína, Samuel SPÁČ, David KOSAŘ, Tereza PAPOUŠKOVÁ and Viktor DERKA. Judicial Self-Governance Index: Towards Better Understanding of the Role of Judges in Governing the Judiciary. Regulation & Governance. Wiley, 2022, Neuveden, Neuveden, p. 22-42. ISSN 1748-5983. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rego.12453. Open access časopisu info
• PETROV, Jan, Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ, David KOSAŘ, Hubert SMEKAL and Ladislav VYHNÁNEK. Beyond Compliance: odpověď autorů (Beyond Compliance: A Rejoinder). Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, vol. 29, No 2, p. 413-425. ISSN 1210-9126. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CPVP2021-2-12. Open access časopisu info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Under Pressure: Building Judicial Resistance to Political Inference. In DJ Galligan. The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe? The Putney Debates 2019. 1st. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, p. 153-170. ISBN 978-1-5099-4003-5. Web nakladatele Repozitář MU info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. The Supreme Court – The Story of a (Post)communist Cinderella. In David Kosař, Jan Petrov, Katarína Šipulová, Hubert Smekal, Ladislav Vyhnánek a Jozef Janovský. Domestic Judicial Treatment of European Court of Human Rights – Beyond Compliance. 1st. London, New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 103-138, 37 pp. Routledge Research in Human Rights Law. ISBN 978-0-367-36116-7. Web nakladatele info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. The Czech Constitutional Court: Far away from political influence. In Kálmán Pócza. Constitutional Politics and the Judiciary Decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe. 1st ed. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2019, p. 32-60. Routledge Research in Constitutional Law. ISBN 978-1-138-60764-4. Web nakladatele info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. ECtHR – Ally, Adversary, or Foe? The Attitudes of Judges Towards International Human Rights Law in the (Post-) Transitioning Area. Jahrbuch für Ostrecht. C.H.Beck, 2019, Neuveden, No 1, p. 235-252. ISSN 0075-2746. Obsah čísla časopisu info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Is Judicial Independence Under Attack? Experience from Central and Eastern Europe. In Putney Debates 2019 (Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, London). 2019. https://www.fljs.org/content/putney-debates-2019-session-2%C2%A0-judicial-independence-under-attack-if-so-how-%E2%80%94-and-why info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Capturing the Judiciary. In State Capture: What It Is and What It Means for the Constitutional Order (Oxford). 2019. http://www.ox.ac.uk/event/state-capture-what-it-and-what-it-means-constitutional-order info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Czech lustration of judges. In The Judiciary in the Context of Constitutional Transitions - Workshop (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford). 2019. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/judiciary-context-constitutional-transitions-workshop info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Hodnotitel (Reviewer). Evidence a hodnocení tvůrčí činnosti, UK, 2019. info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Member of the ICON-S CEE Chapter Advisory Board. 2019. info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Member of the Law and Courts Steering Committee (ECPR). 2019. info
• JANOVSKÝ, Jozef, Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ and Hubert SMEKAL. Understanding Adoption of International Human Rights Treaties: Political Regimes and Commitment Patterns. In Seminár Human Right Series výzkumního centra PluriCourts, University of Oslo. 2017. URL info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Ideology and International Human Rights Commitments in Post-communist Regimes: Cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In International Courts and Domestic Politics 2015. 2015. info
• HAVELKA, Libor, Alžbeta KONDELOVÁ, Aleš PAVEL and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Aplikace práva EU v rozhodovací praxi českých civilních soudů v letech 2009-2011. Základní zásady aplikace unijního práva v praxi českých soudů (první část) (The application of EU law before the Czech civil courts in 2009 - 2011. Principles of EU law in the case law of the Czech courts (part one)). Právní rozhledy. Nakladatelství C.H. Beck, 2014, vol. 2014, No 6, p. 218-230. ISSN 1210-6410. info
• HAVELKA, Libor, Alžbeta KONDELOVÁ, Aleš PAVEL and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Aplikace práva EU v rozhodovací praxi českých civilních soudů v letech 2009-2011.Spotřebitelské právo v rozhodovací praxi českých soudů (2. část) (The application of EU law before the Czech civil courts in 2009 - 2011. Consumer protection in the case law of the Czech civil courts (Part 2)). Právní rozhledy. Nakladatelství C.H. Beck, 2014, vol. 22, 8/2014, p. 295-303. ISSN 1210-6410. info
• HAVELKA, Libor, Alžbeta KONDELOVÁ, Aleš PAVEL and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Aplikace práva EU v rozhodovací praxi českých civilních soudů v letech 2009-2011. Evropský justiční prostor: vybrané problémy v rozhodovací praxi českých civilních soudů (třetí část) (The application of EU law before the Czech civil courts in 2009 - 2011. European judicial area: problems in jurisprudence of the Czech courts (Part 3)). Právní rozhledy. Nakladatelství C.H. Beck, 2014, roč. 22, No 10, p. 370-380. ISSN 1210-6410. info
• TÝČ, Vladimír, Linda JANKŮ and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: A Case Study on the Practice of Czechoslovakia and Its Successor States. International Community Law Review. Brill, 2014, vol. 16, No 3, p. 371-398. ISSN 1871-9740. URL info
• JANOVSKÝ, Jozef and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Political Regimes and International Human Rights Commitments: The Moderation Effect of Treaty's Control Mechanism. In Venice Academy of Human Rights - PluriCourts (University of Oslo): Judicial Legitimacy and the Rule of Law (Workshop lead by Philip Alston). 2014. info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína, Libor HAVELKA and Alžbeta KONDELOVÁ. Judicial Reasoning and Judicial Dialogue: The Application of EU law by National Civil Courts. In How to Measure the Quality of Judicial Reasoning. 2014. URL info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Tranzitivní spravedlnost a vyrovnání se s minulostí (Transitional justice and reconciliation). In Dufek, P.; Smekal, H. a kol. Lidská práva v mezinárodní politice. 1st ed. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, a. s.,, 2014, p. 318-336. Ediční rada Lidská práva. ISBN 978-80-7478-720-1. info
• SMEKAL, Hubert and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. D.H. v. Czech Republic Five Years After: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through a Systemic Change (D.H. V. Czech Republic Five Years After: On the Power of an International Human Rights Court to Push through a Systemic Change). In Berkeley Law – Sciences-Po Ecole de Droit Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Symposium. 2012. info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína and Aleš PAVEL. Zásady práva Evropské unie v aplikační praxi (The principles of European Union Law in praxis of the Czech courts). In Přednáška pro soudce krajských soudů, Justiční akademie, Kroměříž. 2012. info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Institut předběžné otázky a právo na zákonného soudce (judikatura českého Ústavního soudu a ESLP) (The reference for a preliminary ruling and the right to a fair trial (case law of the Czech Constitutional court and ECHR)). In Přednáška aplikace unijního práva českými soudy, Právnická fakulta Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc. 2012. info
• JANKŮ, Linda, Jozef JANOVSKÝ, Hubert SMEKAL and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Mezinárodní závazky České republiky v oblasti lidských práv (International Obligations of the Czech Republic in the Field of Human Rights). Středoevropské politické studie. Brno: Mezinárodní politologický ústav, FSS MU, 2012, XIV, 2-3, p. 191-223. ISSN 1212-7817. URL info
• ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína. Tranzitní spravedlnost v postkonfliktním prostředí: stíhání zločinů a usmíření společnosti (Transitional justice in postconflict environment: criminal prosecution and reconciliation). In Ozbrojené konflikty po konci studené války. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Muni Press, 2012, p. 275-308. Monografie, č. 46. ISBN 978-80-210-6047-0. info

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