Pavla Voříšková
JUDr. Mgr. Pavla Voříšková, Ph.D.
She is a senior lawyer at the law firm ŠTAIDL LEŠKA ADVOKÁTI s.r.o. and a recognised specialist in copyright law relating to architecture and construction, including in an international context. She graduated from two law faculties: the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno and the Faculty of Law at Palacký University in Olomouc. She also studied economics and architecture concurrently. Between 2015 and 2016, she studied intellectual property law at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK, and undertook several study placements abroad in the field of intellectual property law. She was involved in two European projects at the Ministry of Justice, where, as one of the leading experts in civil law, she, amongst other things, drafted interpretative opinions to harmonise issues relating to the new private law and lectured on selected aspects of civil law to key institutions such as the Office of the Government, the Industrial Property Office, land registry offices and many others. She has also devoted considerable attention to the field of co-ownership of residential property; on this topic, she authored the book Co-ownership of Residential Property in Theory and Practice for the Leges publishing house in 2015. In her legal practice, she provides comprehensive legal services not only in the areas of contract law and intellectual property law in architecture and construction, but also in the field of construction law, for public contracting authorities and private investors as well as individual architects. She is the author of the only monograph in the Czech Republic on the subject of Copyright in Architecture, which was published in 2018 by C. H. Beck. She regularly publishes and lectures on this topic. For the past few years, she has been advising on intellectual property law issues relating to the implementation of BIM and is involved in several projects. She also lectures at FAMU.
