JUDr. Jana Baricová
Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
From 1st March 2019 – 17th April 2019 Acting President of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic
b. 1953
She studied at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno from 1973 until 1976 and at the Law Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava from 1977 until 1978. In 1981 she was awarded the title of juris utriusque doctor.
From 1978 until 1981 she worked as a candidate-judge at the Regional Court in Bratislava. From 1981 until 1985 she was a judge at the District Court for Bratislava-Environs and from 1985 until 1990 she worked there in the position of Vice President. From 1990 she was a judge at the Regional Court of Bratislava and from 1993 also the Presiding Judge of one of its Senates. From 1997 until 2004 she worked as the Vice President responsible for the civil section at the Regional Court of Bratislava and from 1999 also for the administrative section.
In 2005 she became a judge of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic and a member of its Administrative Division. From 2007 she was the Presiding Judge of an Administrative Division senate, and from 2008 until 2014 she acted as Deputy Presiding Judge of the Administrative Division at the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic.
In 1986 she completed a study stay focusing on courts and the administration of courts in the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany. She then attended several specialized courses, seminars and study stays in the field of the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and European Union law (e.g. Trier 1993 and 1995, Edinburgh 1997, Hertogenbosch 1998, Cambridge 1998, Stockholm 1998, Copenhagen 1998, Vienna 2002, Brussels between 1992 and 2003) and the course "Training of Judges by Judges in Community Law" in Prague in 2001 and 2002 and seminars at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014. In 2008 she completed her internship at the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic as legal advisor to the President of this Court. Since 1991 she has held the position of lecturer and tutor for all types of legal professions in the branches of civil procedural law, international private and procedural law, European Union law, family law and administrative law.
From 1993 until 2004 she also worked in various legislative commissions (Code of Civil Procedure, Law on Judges and Lay Judges, Law on Ordinary Courts, Family Law and Law on Social Assistance, Law on Social-Legal Protection and Social Guardianship), and in 2001-2003 she worked as coordinator for the Slovak Republic on the subproject of internal review of courts (Twinning). As part of this project, she organized seminars for judges and managers, and she drafted a bill and developed a methodological manual. In 2012-2016, she was an ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights. From 2012 until 2018, as Vice-Chair of the Commission for the Recodification of Civil Procedural Law, she participated in the preparation of new civil procedural codes. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Commission for Recodification of Private Law.
Since 2005 she has been a part-time member of the Pedagogical Board of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic, and since 2011 she has been a member of the Commission for titular examinations at the Department of Administrative Law and Environmental Law of the Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava. From 2007 until 2015 she was an external member of the teaching staff at the Pan-European University of Law in the subject of civil procedural law. In addition to the above, she provided training for judges and other staff for Asylum Justice (2002 - 2003) and carried out seminars on family law for the Úsmev ako dar Foundation (2003 - 2004).
From 2004 until 2008 she represented the Slovak Republic in the European Judicial Network, focusing on civil and commercial matters. From 2012 until 2019 she represented the Slovak Republic in the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) as a substitute member, and since 2019 she has been a full member.
She is the author or co-author of the Commentary on the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (C. H. Beck, 2020), Commentary on the Administrative Judicial Code (C. H. Beck, 2018), Commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure (C. H. Beck, 2009 and 2012), Commentary on the Decree on attorneys' fees and compensation for the provision of legal services (attorneys' tariff) published by C. H. Beck in 2015, Great Commentary on the Civil Code (C. H. Beck, 2015), Great Commentary on the Civil Contentious Proceedings Code (C. H. Beck, 2016), co-author and head author of the Great Commentary on the Administrative Procedure Code (C. H. Beck, 2017), and of textbooks on Civil Procedural Law published by Eurokódex (2010, 2013 and 2014). She publishes in professional journals and is also the author of dozens of articles in national and foreign magazines. She regularly participates in domestic and foreign conferences.
She has been awarded various prizes for her publishing activity: SR 1st place at the Karlovy Vary Days of Law for the – Civil Procedural Law Commentary (2018); Author's award for the Civil Contentious Proceedings Code Commentary (2017); Author's award for the Code of Civil Procedure Commentary (2015).
She speaks Czech, English, German and Russian languages.
She was appointed a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic on 10th July 2014.
From 1st March 2019 to 17th April 2019 she was Acting President of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic.
Documents
Publications – selection (PDF, 366 Kb)
Links
Publications registered in the library of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic