Magdaléna Svobodová
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Lecturer and Guarantor of International and European Legal Studies
- Research Team
Letenská 5, Prague 1
Magdaléna Svobodová graduated from Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, in 1999 (master’s degree). In 2006, she earned her PhD from Charles University, Faculty of Law, specialization Constitutional Law, EU law, International Law. She was appointed Associate Professor at the same institution in 2022, in the field of European law.
Svobodová started her career in the Parliamentary Institute, Parliament of the Czech Republic. She served as a legal advisor in the area of approximation of laws during the process of accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. Later, she worked in law firms and focused on civil law and commercial law. She passed the bar examination in 2012; she is an attorney-at-law registered with the Czech Bar Association under number 14205. In 2012, she started her academic career at Metropolitan University Prague. Since 2015, she has been a lecturer at Charles University, Faculty of Law, Department of European Law. She became a lecturer and a guarantor at AAU in 2026. Svobodová is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law, Charles University. She specializes in EU law, in particular in Union citizenship, free movement of persons and fundamental rights protection in the EU. She is a member of Czech Association of European Studies.
Courses:
- European Union Law I and II
- Human Rights in European Union
Publications List
- Malíř, J., Svobodová, M. Coordinating National Responses to Serious Cross-Border Threats to Health in the European Union: European Health Union and beyond. Review of European Administrative Law No. 1/2025, pp. 35-56.
- Svobodová, M. „Acts“ and „Laws“ of the European Union: a Step Towards the Federalisation of the EU? The Lawyer Quarterly No. 1/2024, pp. 53-65.
- Tomášek, M., Šmejkal, V. a kol. Smlouva o EU. Smlouva o fungování EU. Listina základních práv EU. Komentář. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2022, 1696 p., co-author (EN: Treaty on EU. Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Commentary).
- Svobodová, M. Fundamental Rights of the EU, Czech Legal Order, entry in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism, eBook, Cham: Springer, 2022, pp. 1-18.
- Svobodová, M. Občanství Evropské unie. Praha: Auditorium, 2021, 359 p. (EN: Citizenship of the European Union).