Markéta Selucká, attorney

Dean emeritus of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University

Expert in Civil Law at Masaryk University specialising in consumer protection in EU and Czech law and national contributor to the EC Consumer Law Compendium and since 2011 responsible for the most recent Czech up-dates. She was an assistant to the President of the Czech Constitutional Court, a head of committee of Ministry of Justice for tenancy law in the new Czech Civil Code. She was a dean of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University (2015- 2019)..

She is a member of the European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group). As a national reporter, Marketa participated in several projects for the EU, this includes Fundamental Rights Action Plan, The Perspectives of Europeanization of Law of Succession (Civil Justice Programme of the European Commission).

Marketa has also publish numerous studies on transposition of the EU consumer protection into the Czech law. She also hosted several international conferences on transposition of the EU consumer law into the national laws of the member states.

Marketa is also an author of five books, the coauthor of almost 30 books and numerous articles on civil law of the Czech Republic in context of the EU law.

She studied law at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University and undertook post-graduate research on consumer protection in private law. She also completed and defended her habilitation thesis on liability for non-performance with focus on consumer protection.

Marketa's native tongue is Czech, but she is also fluent in English, Russian and Slovakian.