Publications, Presentations and Research Projects
Publications
1) Article - Empirical Study of Legal Reasoning in Central Europe
Article on formalism and legal reasoning of Czech Supreme Courts using argument mining, in progress
2) Article - A Tale of Two Supreme Courts and Communist Legacies: Analysis of Hard Cases
Article on statutory interpretation of Czech Supreme Courts in hard cases using content analysis, in progress
3) Review essay - Defragmentation of (Private) Law Through Proportionality Test
Review Essay, Ratio Publica (listed in Scopus database), 2024
4) Chapter - Pitfalls of Three-Component Norm
Chapter on a logical structure of legal norm in Zak Krzyzankova K. (eds.), The Reflection of Socio-Technological Development in Contemporary Law, Auditorium, 2024
5) Article - Proportionality Test As an Instrument of Justification, Not Discovery
Article published by Právník Jornal (listed in Scopus database), 2023
Research Projects
I.) MADON - Mining Arguments to Debunk Old Narratives
Managing an international & interdisciplinary scholarly project on legal argument mining in court decisions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Through natural language processing, we are empirically verifying prevailing critical claims about allegedly formalistic reasoning practices of CEE courts.
Supervised by Prof. Ivan Habernal (TrustHLT Group, Ruhr University Bochum) and Prof. Christoph Burchard (C3S, Goethe University).
Collaborating with
AI Team: Ivan Habernal, Lena Held, Mahammad Namazov and Research Assistants Yassine Thilja and Harun Kumru (TrustHLT - Ruhr University Bochum and Technical University Darmstadt)
Legal Team: Research Assistants Václav Lipš, Vítek Eichler, Matyáš Barták and Marek Švajda (Charles University)
II.) CorAL - Correct Application of Law
I am focusing on the boundary between correct and incorrect judicial decisions.
Developing a theoretical framework for incorrect legal assessment + empirically determining a) most frequent types of incorrectness with b) most frequent arguments justifying the incorrectness.
Collaborating with Ivan Habernal and Research Assistants Václav Lipš, Vítek Eichler, Matyáš Barták and Marek Švajda (Charles University)
Presentations
1) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, Progress and Communist Legacies
Event: The Future of Law and Economics (EDLE), International Seminar
Date & Location: April 11–12, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic
2) Proportionality Test in Private Law? Yes, but Not So Fast
Event: Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, International Conference
Date & Location: May 3, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
3) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, Progress and Communist Legacies
Event: Czech-Croatian Colloquium in Legal Theory, International Seminar
Date & Location: May 24, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic
4) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts and Communist Legacies
Event: The 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, International Conference
Date & Location: June 7–12, 2024, Seoul, South Korea
5) Defragmentation of (Private) Law Through Proportionality Test
Event: The 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, International Conference
Date & Location: June 7–12, 2024, Seoul, South Korea
6) Mining Arguments to Debunk Old Narratives: Empirical Study of Czech Apex Courts' Reasoning
Event: CIRSFID Seminar
Date & Location: September 9, 2024, Bologna, Italy
7) Old Judges, New Visions: Empirical Study from Czechia of How Ordinary Courts Reason After Regime Transition
Event: ICON-S Conference (Re)Vision, International Conference
Date & Location: September 25–27, 2024, Mannheim, Germany
8) What Can Artificial Intelligence Reveal About the Decision-Making Practice of Czech Supreme Courts?
Event: Artificial Intelligence in Justice – Challenges and Disappointments, National Conference organized by the High Court in Prague
Date & Location: October 21, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic
9) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, Formalism and Communist Legacies
Event: Graz Jurisprudence Privatissimum, International Seminar
Date & Location: November 5, 2024, Graz, Austria
10) Empirical Analysis of Legal Reasoning in Czechia
Event: Autumn PhD Workshop in Legal Theory, International Workshop
Date & Location: November 29, 2024, Brno, Czech Republic
11) When Courts Violate Law: An Introduction
Event: Graz Jurisprudence Workshop, International Seminar
Date & Location: December 10, 2024, Graz, Austria
12) When Courts Violate Law: An Introduction
Event: TrustHLT Research Group Seminar
Date & Location: February 27, 2025, Siegen, Germany