The Scientific Council

The Scientific Council is an advisory board to the Director of the Institute. It is composed of external experts from theory and practice in relevant disciplines and its task is to discuss major issues of the Institute's activities and scientific development, including medium-term plans for research activities, and to comment on expert findings and recommendations for practice. The Scientific Council also acts as a scientific editorial board for the purposes of the Institute's editorial activities.

Chairman of the IKSP Scientific Council:

JUDr. Miroslav Růžička, Ph.D.
(Supreme State Prosecutor's Office)

The Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institute has been working at the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office for a long time. He focuses mainly on the field of criminal procedural law and the development of criminal activities. He is the author of a number of publications on, for example, pre-trial proceedings and has contributed to commentaries on the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. He is a member of the editorial boards of professional journals such as the Criminal Law Review and the State Prosecution Service and serves on the scientific board of the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno and the Institute of Forensic Engineering in Brno.

Honorary members:

• Prof. JUDr. Václav Pavlíček, CSc. (Faculty of Law, Charles University)
  He is a leading expert on Czech constitutional law and the author of a number of publications. He was the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law of Charles University, where he still works at the Department of Constitutional Law. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hlávka Foundation.
• JUDr. Stanislav Rizman (Chairman Emeritus of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic)
  He served as Chairman of the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic until 2005.

IKSP Scientific Council meeting, 11 April 2022

Other members of the IKSP Scientific Council:

• Prof. Michael Benes (Emeritus Professor RMIT Melbourne)
  Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Victoria, Australia). As an academic, his main research interests in criminal law and justice have been in crime prevention, international human rights and victimology. In addition to his time at the University of Melbourne, he has also lectured in Europe or Asia, and has served as a consultant and advisor on youth justice to the Department of Social Services in Victoria. He is an executive member of the Australian Crime Prevention Council, where he is a past president.
• PhDr. Hedvika Boukalová, PhD (Faculty of Arts, UK, Police Presidium)
  She is a researcher or co-investigator of international projects on the psychology of emergencies and psychosocial crisis intervention. She currently works as a police psychologist at the Police Presidium of the Police of the Czech Republic and is also a forensic expert.  During her time at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (Department of Psychology), she has worked in the field of psychological support in criminal investigations and criminal psychology. She is the author of a number of professional publications.
• doc. PhDr. Jiří Buriánek, CSc. (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
  For more than twenty years (1991-2013) he held the position of Head of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. He is mainly engaged in the methodology of sociological research and criminology, especially the issues of social actors and youth. He is a researcher or co-investigator of a number of international projects as well as projects of GA CR and TA CR. He is also a founding member and chairman of the Czech Society of Criminology.
• JUDr. Jaromír Hořák, Ph.D. (Faculty of Law, Charles University)
  Specializes in criminal law and criminology. He worked as an assistant to judges of the Constitutional Court. In the long term, his main place of work is the Faculty of Law of Charles University, where he participates in the professional training of the incoming legal class.
• Prof. JUDr. Věra Kalvodová, Dr. (Masaryk University Faculty of Law)
  Since 2002 she has been an advisor to the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic. She has been teaching criminal law at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University since 1990, where she is currently the head of the Department of Criminal Law. She is a prominent expert in criminal law and the author of a number of publications, textbooks and commentaries on laws. She serves as a member of the Control Board of the GACR, a member of the Steering Committee of the Czech National Group of the AIDP, a member of the Commission for the New Criminal Procedure Code and the Council for Probation and Mediation.
• Prof. JUDr. Vladimír Kratochvíl, CSc. (Masaryk University Faculty of Law)
  Served as the head of the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University in Brno and made a major contribution to the development of the department. He is the author of many scientific publications in the field of criminal law, focusing on the basics of criminal liability, principles of criminal procedure and the institution of detention. He is an advisor to the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and a member of the editorial boards of professional journals.
• Prof. PhDr. Gabriela Lubelcová, CSc. (Faculty of Arts, Charles University Bratislava)
  She is an academic at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. Her research interests include the analysis of crime with a focus on its social determinants, strategies of social intervention and social policy. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Commission of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Social Sciences.
• Prof. JUDr. Jan Musil, CSc. (Judge Emeritus of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic)
  He was a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic for two terms. He is the former Head of the Department of Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law of the Charles University and Rector and Vice-Rector of the Police Academy of the Czech Republic. He has published a number of scientific papers, is a member of several scientific councils of universities and also a former chairman of the scientific council of the IKSP.
• JUDr. František Púry, Ph.D. (Chairman of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic)
  He is a judge of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, where he has been the chairman of the criminal collegium since 2016. Since the beginning of his tenure at the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, he has specialized mainly in economic and property crime. He is a recognized expert in the field of criminal law, for which he received the Lawyer of the Year Award in 2018. He is the author of a number of articles in the professional press and publications in the field of substantive and procedural criminal law (e.g. commentaries to laws and textbooks on substantive and procedural criminal law). He also serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and participates in teaching law students at the Charles University and the Brno University of Technology.
• Prof. JUDr. Helena Válková, CSc. (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
  She is a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Chair of the Mandate and Immunity Committee and a member of other parliamentary committees and subcommittees. She lectured at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and was instrumental in establishing the Chair of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Arts of the University of ZČU in Pilsen. She is a former Rector of the University of Business and Law. She contributed significantly to the establishment of the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic and to the creation of the Juvenile Justice Act. In 2014 and 2015 she was the Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic. She is a co-founder of the Czech Society of Criminology.
• doc. JUDr. Ivana Zoubková, CSc. (Police Academy of the Czech Republic)
  Specializes in legal aspects related to security and justice. She focuses on criminology, crime prevention, youth, economic crime and criminal law. She is the Vice-Dean for Science and Research at the Faculty of Security and Law of the Police Academy in Prague, and she cooperates externally with the Department of Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law of the Charles University.