Jan Kříž

Prof. JUDr. Jan Kříž, CSc., Dr.h.c.

jan.kriz@akkp.cz
Tel.: +420 224 819 334

Reg. No. CBA: 01025
Company Identification Number: 28524021

Registered Office: Rybná 9, 110 00 Praha 1

Biography

Jan Kříž graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, since 1991 he has been working as an attorney. He is a founder of the law office Advokátní kancelář Kříž a partneři s.r.o. and until 2021 he was its shareholder.

Membership

In the early 1990s he was a member of the Legislative Council of the Czech Government and in the second half of the 1990s, he became a member of the legislative and legal advisory body at the Municipal Authority of Prague. He was also engaged in the activity of the Consultative Advisory Body of Lawyers convened by the President of the Republic. In addition to his practice as an attorney-at-law, he is active as Full Professor of the Institute of Copyright, Industrial Property Rights and Competition Law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University, the director of which he was from 1986 to the end of 2015. He is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law of Charles University.

He is a member of a lot of international organisations (for example, AIPPI and INTERGU) and he served two terms as Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of the Council on Advertising. He is an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.

Orientation

He specialises in copyright law and civil law. He deals with rights to intellectual property both in practical application thereof and in terms of his scientific and legislative activities. He is an author and co-author of many specialised monographs and articles in professional journals. He spent one year on a fellowship in Germany, at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich. He has given lectures in German and English at many universities outside the Czech Republic and in 2002 he was appointed an honorary member of the academic community of the Faculty of Law of the University of Passau. This University awarded him the honorary degree Dr.h.c. In 2007, he was awarded the prize Lawyer of the Year in the category of intellectual property protection.

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