People

Terezie Smejkalová

Terezie is an assistant professor at the Department of Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. She is interested in the world of law, how we conceptualize it and keep it alive. To that end, she focuses on the crossroads between law and language and law and communication and her research is strongly interdisciplinary, making use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. She took part in various national and international research projects.

She is a lead researcher in this project.

Markéta Štěpáníková

Markéta works as an assistant professor at the Department of Legal Theory at the Masaryk University, Faculty of Law. Her main fields of research are Law and humanities and Law and Social Studies. In particular, she focuses on legal theater, legal ethics, and various aspects of legal awareness. Moreover, she combines law and art in the field of Art law, both for law students and students of Janáček Academy of Performing Arts and Academy of Performing Arts. She has been a member of several national research projects focused on interdisciplinary issues of law, eg. legislation drafting or creating legal identity through literature.

Linda Tvrdíková

Linda is a PhD candidate at the Department of Legal Theory at Masaryk University in Brno. There are three things in Linda's life that she loves: her family, legal theory and philosophy. Before she started studying law, she received her bachelor's degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Hradec Králové, where this study also greatly influenced her, her thinking and her world view. Her current research focuses on the connection of law (especially legal theory), analytical philosophy and cognitive science. Linda believes that an interdisciplinary approach can help us to understand law better, or at the very least can make us think about law in a different way, asking new questions and seeking out new answers. 

Petr Palíšek

Petr is studied at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University and is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University. He is interested in psychological aspects of judicial decision-making, psychometrics and Alexander Hamilton. After working at the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic he currently focuses on the development of diagnostic games for talented children for the Invenio team. 

Anežka Smejkalová

Anežka is a PhD candidate in the field of cognitive psychology and neurolinguistics at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences. Her main research interest is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms of the visual word recognition and new word learning, as well as the brain structures and brain activity underlying these processes. More generally, she is interested in the research methodology and data-analysis. In the project, she contributes to the conception of the data-collection design as well as the quantitative data analysis.