Prof. Veronika Bílková is Head of the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague, and a senior researcher at the Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations, Prague (Czech Republic). She is a member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (since 2010) and of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (since 2020). She is also the Vice-President of the European Society of International Law and chair of the Czech Committee for Human Rights of Older Persons. Previously, she was a member of three expert missions on Ukraine established within the OSCE Moscow Mechanism from 2022-2023. Her fields of research include the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law and the fight against terrorism. She has published extensively in Czech, English and French.
