doc. JUDr. Bohumil Havel, Ph.D.

Research field

Legal persons, corporations,  insolvency law

Education

• Faculty of Law, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Mgr., JUDr., Ph.D.)
• Prague University of Economics and Business (Associate Professor)

Projects

• Grant APVV-0809-12, Slovak Republic, Modernization of Company Law within the Recodification of Private Law (co-researcher), implementation period: 2013–2017
• Participation in the project Transitional Jurisprudence (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_018/0002597)
• Grant reg. No. 19-24949S Czech Science Foundation: Comparison of Czech corporate law with OECD principles of Corporate Governance as an international standard and selected European jurisdictions (principal investigator), implementation period: 2019–2021
• Participation in the project of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic TL 02000467: Development of preventive pre-insolvency and insolvency restructurings of companies in financial difficulties, possibilities to increase the use and success of these procedures by establishing an early warning system and establishing procedures for preventive restructuring.

Pedagogical work

• Faculty of Law, Charles Univesity – teaching insolvency law
• Faculty of Law, Masaryk University and Faculty of Law Palacký University, Olomouc – supervisor of postgraduate studies
• College of CEVRO – teaching corporate law

Other work in academic sphere

• Since 2008 a member of the editorial board of the magazine Obchodněprávní revue published by C. H. Beck in Prague
• Since 2010 a member of the editorial board of the magazine Právník published by ÚSP AV ČR, v.v.i.
• Since 2013 a member of the Attestation Commission of the ÚSP AV ČR, v.v.i.
• Since 2015 a member of the Academic Council of the CEVRO Institute
• Since 2016 a member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law of Palacký University in Olomouc
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Harry Pollak Center for Restructuring and Insolvency since 2017, University of Economics in Prague
• Since 2019 a member of the branch councils of the doctoral study program Theoretical Legal Sciences – Private International Law and International Trade Law, Theoretical Legal Sciences – Commercial Law and Theoretical Legal Science – Law and Legal Theory in European Context, all at the Faculty of Law Charles University in Prague
• Since 2021, member of the Appeals Committee of the Office for the Protection of Economic Competition
• Since 2023, member of "STEP" – https://www.step.org/about-step
• Since 2023, member of the editorial board of the journal Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi (Journal of Jurisprudence and Legal Practice)
• Since 2025, Vice-Chairman of the Council for Cooperation with Universities of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Since 2025, member of the Expert Body of Evaluators - advisory body of the Council for Research, Development and Innovation
• Since 2025, individual member of the European Law Institute (https://europeanlawinstitute.eu/)
• Since 2025, Head of the Department of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University