A5014269717- Discrimination and Equality Law
- European and International Law Studies
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Law in Society and Culture
- Taxation and Legal Issues
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Foreign Body Medical Cases
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Romani and Gypsy Studies
- International Labor and Employment Law
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- European Law and Migration
- European history and politics
- Sex work and related issues
- Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Law, Rights, and Freedoms
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Legal Issues in South Africa
University of Oxford
2009-2023
Masaryk University
2021
University of California, Berkeley
2007-2019
Saarland University
2006
Charles University
2006
Europa-Institut
2006
Journal Article Blaming all Women: On Regulation of Prostitution in State Socialist Czechoslovakia Get access Barbara Havelková * Shaw Foundation Fellow Law at Lincoln College and Faculty Law, University Oxford. Email: barbara.havelkova@law.ox.ac.uk . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Legal Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2016, Pages 165–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqv022 Published: 11 August 2015
Abstract Central and Eastern European countries (CEE), compared to common law but also other civil of Europe, are known for a strikingly high representation women within judiciaries. This, however, does not mean that equality has been achieved, as judges do reach leadership positions at the same rate their male peers. Taking Czech Republic case study, this contribution explores barriers face CEE judiciary analyses reflections on positions. The interviews with show while they well aware what...
Abstract Post-communist Central and Eastern European ('CEE') legislators judges have been resistant to equality antidiscrimination law. This Article argues that these negative attitudes can be explained in part by the specific trajectory EAL has taken CEE during after state socialism, which differed from Western Europe. In UK/EU, formal guarantees of equal treatment prohibitions discrimination 1960s 1970s were complemented a more substantive understanding 1990s 2000s. development was...
The author reading of Kopytem sem, kopytem tam, a film rendition the 'bleak times Normalization' and first only Czech full-length feature dealing with HIV AIDS, builds on these differing investments. discourse AIDS in Czechoslovakia has been, since its beginnings mid-1980s, moulded by sentiment that puts society to test strips it bare essentials; or as one longer articles framed it: 'AIDS examines cultural state society'. To approach this connection, He proposes two different lines reading....
Although the acquis communautaire relating to gender equality has largely been transposed in Czech Republic, this does not necessarily mean that these rules are being fully implemented. Almost two years after accession EU, equally important implementation phases – namely, application (establishment of procedures and administration measures by relevant authorities) enforcement (monitoring authorities ensuring or compelling conformity) severely underdeveloped, compliance private sector is at a...
The article explores how Czechoslovakia reacted to the persistence of prostitution during State Socialism (1948-1989) when its underlying Marxist-Leninist ideology predicted that it should disappear with overthrow capitalism. paper adopts a law in context approach, critically analysing legal instruments as well expert commentaries by social scientists, scholars, judges and prosecutors from period.
Reviewed by: Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis ed. by Shreya Atrey & Sandra Fredman Barbara Havelková (bio) eds., (Oxford University Press 2023), ISBN 9780192872999, 400 pages. "At the start pandemic, it seemed that Covid-19 was a great leveller … The reality has been different"1—starts book Inequalities, edited and Fredman. editors authors this timely, comprehensive, thought-provoking volume use observation to explore striking rise inequality during when wealth ten...
Abstract This article explores the justifications for, and objections to, proposed European Union ‘women on company boards’ Directive. It notes that Member State opposition to measure had different emphases. The new, post-socialist States intervened prominently questioned Commission's understanding of underlying social reality gender inequality measure's focus results, while old raised mainly issue subsidiarity challenged need for legislative action, and/or particularly action at EU level....
Abstract This paper argues that some of the difficulties faced by gender equality in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) can be explained a missing paradigmatic shift to constructivist understanding gender. Arguably most explicit rejection perspective was recently served Bulgarian Constitutional Court’s judgment, closely analyzed paper, which found certain provisions Council Convention on preventing combating violence against women domestic (Istanbul Convention) incompatible with...
Despite the fact that three-fifths of Czech judges are women, it would be a mistake to consider judiciary “feminized”: is characterized by vertical gender segregation and slow “defeminization” in positions power influence. The key understanding both women’s presence overall absence at top gendered division labor, especially home. same reason why many women enter judiciary—better reconciliation private professional lives than other legal professions—is do not progress—their “second shift”...
The Master thesis looks at the legal responses to prostitution in Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic under State Socialism Transition, understanding of gender equality therein.